History and geography come together to bring to life exciting stories of westward expansion.
The Oregon Settlement GIS Project contains a point layer that shows the original Donation Land Claims for the northern Willamette Valley with both census and genealogical data attached. The dataset also includes a georeferenced mosaic of the ca.1860 cadastral (property) and topographic surveys produced by the General Land Office. Where did people settle? What are their enduring legacies? The Oregon Settlement Project comes in many GIS formats including ESRI's ArcView and ArcExplorer as well as Google Earth.
CLICK HERE to download a description of this project and for ideas on how to use it in your classroom.
CLICK HERE to get to the page where you can download the GIS projects and GIS-ready data files.
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The Mighty Columbia River
Enjoy a slideshow from our June 2008 tour of the Columbia River (while listening to Woody Guthrie's "Roll on Columbia"). The pictures show the many faces of this mighty river - a tamed river, a working river, a source of beauty and wilderness, recreation, transportation, and livelihood. [Click Here to launch the Flash Slideshow]
You will need FLASH PLAYER to view the slideshow and an MP3 player (such as QuickTime or Windows MediaPlayer) to listen to the song.
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Check out the new Vanport Google Earth Project!
Built in 1943, Vanport was a hastily constructed public housing project that provided residences for thousands of workers employed at the Kaiser shipyards in Portland (OR) and Vancouver (WA). At its peak, Vanport had a population of close to 50,000, many of them African-American, and was the second largest city in Oregon. A devastating flood in 1948 destroyed the city. However, Vanport's imprint remains on the landscape, both physically and socially. The Google Earth project contains layers that show the location of the apartments, administrative and social buildings, roads and water features (the imprints of which can still be seen). Another layer provides points of interest. Click on the points to explore images and narrative about life in Vanport. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION with information about the different feature layers and ideas for how to use the project in your classroom.
You will need Google Earth to run the Vanport City GIS Project [GET GOOGLE EARTH HERE].
[CLICK HERE to download or run the Vanport City Google Earth Project]
