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There is growing consensus that its origin is most likely Algonquian, a family of Indigenous languages spoken east of the Rocky Mountains and in present-day Canada. In the early twentieth century, banker and historian Thomas Coit Elliott uncovered a document in a 1765 proposal written by Major Robert Rogers, a colonial soldier.
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Oregon, the name By Edwin Battistella Two hundred and fifty...
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The Oregon Companion: A Historical Gazetter of the Useful,...
- Cartography of Oregon, 1507–1848
The cartographic history of Oregon as a place in the Pacific...
- Robert Gray (1755–1806)
His name is memorialized in Gray’s Harbor and Grays River in...
- George Vancouver
The role George Vancouver played in Oregon history is...
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
The second object is a large military branding iron carrying...
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The earliest evidence of the name Oregon has Spanish origins. The term "orejón" comes from the historical chronicle Relación de la Alta y Baja California (1598) [2] written by Rodrigo Montezuma, a man of New Spain.
Apr 27, 2022 · The history of the name 'Oregon' dates back to at least the mid-1700s, but what it means or where it originated has been debated for years.
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The origin of the state name is uncertain, but "Oregon" might be derived from a 1715 French map which refers to the Wisconsin River as "Ouaricon-sint."
US settler and writer Hall J. Kelley, a strong advocate of US settlement in Oregon in the 1820s and 30s, held that the term Oregon came from the name of a river called Orjon, located in Mongolia.
The name, Oregon, is rounded down phonetically, from Ouve água—Oragua, Or-a-gon, Oregon—given probably by the same Portuguese navigator that named the Farallones after his first officer, and it literally, in a large way, means cascades: "Hear the waters."
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Recent research establishes the fact that the name Oregon is a corruption or variation by Jonathan Carver of the name Ouragon or Ourigan, which was communicated to him by Major Robert Rogers, the English commandant of the frontier military and trading post at Mackinac, [2] Michigan, during the years (1766-67) of Captain Carver's journey to the ...
