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Corvallis


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Corvallis

Marysville

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located in W Oregon on Willamette River; name in Latin means "heart of the valley."
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Christopher Burkett (American, born 1951)

Frederick H. Heidel (American, 1915-2000)

Erik Sandgren (American, born 1952)

Active

Shepard Levine (American, born 1927)

Died

Paul James Gunn (American, 1922-2001)

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