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Salem

Chemeketa

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located in NW Oregon on Willamette river; missionaries sold homesites to finance the Oregon Institute (1842), a religious school for Amerindians which later became Willamette University; town prospered from traffic on the Oregon Trail.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Lilian P. Bain (American, 1873-1949)

Clyde Leon Keller (American, 1872-1962)

D.E. May (American, 1952-2019)

Storm Tharp (American, born 1970)

Myra Albert Wiggins (American, 1869-1956)

Active

Jed Thomas (American, active 20th century)

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