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|  | *Foreign-born immigrants came mainly from '''Canada, Germany, Scandinavia, England and Russia'''. |  | *Foreign-born immigrants came mainly from '''Canada, Germany, Scandinavia, England and Russia'''. | 
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|  | === Gold Discovery ===
 |  |   *Later immigrants came from '''China, Japan, the Philippines and Latin America'''. | 
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|  | *1860, gold discovery at Pierce, in northern Idaho made Portland an important trade depot. 
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|  | *1862, gold discovery at what was [[Auburn, Baker County, Oregon Genealogy|Auburn, Oregon]] by Henry Griffin and David Littlefield opened up settlement of the Eastern Oregon. 
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|  | *The completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883 going up north from California, brought many new settlers into Oregon. This was Oregon's first transcontinental rail connection. 
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|  | *Later immigrants came from China, Japan, the Philippines and Latin America.  |  | 
|  | *By 1889, the Oregon Short Line connected Union Pacific Railway with Oregon Railway and Navigation Company at Huntington, Oregon brought in more settlers faster in more direct link from the East Coast. 
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|  | *A helpful source on overland migration is William Adrian Bowen, ''The Willamette Valley: Migration and Settlement on the Oregon Frontier'' (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1978) {{WorldCat|3650932|At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|81588|item|disp=FHL fiche 6101360; book 979.53 X4b.}}
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|  | === Records  === |  | === Records  === |