Portal:Oregon/DYK/173

... that in choosing between the names Portland and Boston, Francis Pettygrove (pictured) and Asa Lovejoy, the founders of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, settled the question by a coin toss?
... that former Oregon State athletic director Bob De Carolis coached the Michigan Wolverines softball team from 1981 to 1984?
... that the original office for The Bulletin, the first newspaper in Bend, Oregon, was in a cabin located on the banks of the Deschutes River?
... that in 1899, the Roba Ranch in Central Oregon had one of its sheep camps burned, the result of a range war between cattlemen and sheepherders?

More did you know facts

Source[edit]