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KLCC s Chris Lehman reports on an exhibit on Black history at the Benton County Historical Society.
Credit Benton County Historical Society
The history of early Black settlers is told through personal stories and artifacts. Some were enslaved when they arrived. Others came to Oregon by choice.
All faced legal and social inequities, said Zachary Stocks, the executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, an organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the experiences of Blacks in Oregon.
Stock said he hopes the exhibit gets people thinking.
“When we talk about our state’s history and the pioneer narrative that defines the Oregon experience, we don’t often think about the Black individuals who were also part of that experience,” he said.
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The history of tourist lodging on the Oregon coast runs an interesting evolutionary route: from tent cities, to cabins, auto parks, a unique thing called motor lodges, and then finally to motels, with hotels running a parallel existence in some ways.
On the north Oregon coast, tourism started off sooner as trains started coming to Seaside from Portland about 1880. On the southern coast – according to the Coos History Museum and the Oregon Coast Historical Railway Museum in Coos Bay – it wasn’t until 1916 that trains brought visitors there. In some places, like Newport, people started coming by boat first.
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