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...that Oregonian newspaper co-founder William Chapman served in the first session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was Iowa Territory's first delegate to the U.S. Congress?
...that Hiram Straight was the foreman of the jury in Oregon City, Oregon, that sentenced five Native Americans to hang for the Whitman Massacre?
...that a large coastal defense gun was temporarily installed at Oregon's scenic Cape Perpetua (shelter pictured) during World War II?

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