City of Eugene Lane County, Oregon


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City of Eugene: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

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General information on City of Eugene

  • Feature Type: Incorporated

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Eugene

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
City of Eugene Official
Eugene Official

 

Related Catalog Titles

A Bibliography for City of Eugene, Lane County, Oregon

The story of Eugene by Lucia W. Moore, Nina W. McCornack, Gladys W. McCready

Authored by Lucia W. Moore, Nina W. McCornack, and Gladys W. McCready, The Story of Eugene chronicles the founding and growth of Oregon’s third-largest city from its humble beginnings as a remote Willamette Valley settlement in the mid-19th century. The book draws on pioneer diaries, local records, and oral histories to trace the community's evolution from a muddy river crossing named after Eugene Skinner into a bustling agricultural and educational hub anchored by the University of Oregon. Through its detailed civic narrative, the text highlights the entrepreneurial drive and social institutions that transformed a fragile frontier outpost into a thriving urban center. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the intentional integration of higher education served as a vital urban survival strategy; by aggressively lobbying to secure the state university, early town leaders successfully insulated Eugene from the boom-and-bust cycles of purely resource-dependent timber and rail economies, cementing the city's long-term cultural and economic resilience.

277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Related Online Resources

Joel Palmer papers

The Joel Palmer Papers comprise correspondence, official records of the Oregon Superintendency, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, documents relating to the Siletz Indian Reservation, and miscellaneous papers. The collection includes a notebook documenting the 1847 publication of Palmer's Journal of Travels over the Rocky Mountains, his account of his 1845 journey to Oregon.

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Last updated: 2017-01-16