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Bridge at Tryon Creek State Natural Area

... that Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon's land claim was logged for firewood to be used in a foundry by the Oregon Iron Company, but is now the Tryon Creek State Natural Area (pictured)?
... that the Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon?
... that Freeman Fitzgerald played football with Knute Rockne and once struck out 19 batters in a baseball game?
... that after the O&C Lands were revested to the United States government, 18 Oregon counties received federal payments that may have ended in 2012?

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