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The Augustus Fanno Farmhouse was the home of Augustus Fanno, one of the first European American settlers in what became Washington County in the U.S.... state of Oregon. Born in Maine in 1804, Fanno lived in Missouri as a young adult and in 1846 moved to Oregon with his first wife, Martha, and son. After Martha died in childbirth in Linn City in the Willamette Valley, Fanno and his son settled a 640-acre donation land claim 12 miles to the northwest on a small tributary of the Tualatin River. It was the first such claim to be filed in the county. In 1851, Fanno married Rebecca Denney, and the first of their six children was born later that year. In 1859, he designed and built a rural home in the modified New England revival style popular in Oregon at the time. The family pioneered the cultivation of onions in Oregon, and by the 1890s these became regionally recognized for their high quality. Fanno descendants produced onions on the farm until onion maggots drove them out of business in the 1940s. Members of the family occupied the farmhouse until 1974, and in March 1982 they donated the house and adjacent land to the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District .
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Meredith Phillips was a prominent participant in the ABC's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette reality television shows. Phillips currently resides in... Los Angeles, California. Meredith was originally a contestant on The Bachelor's fourth season, but was not chosen. She was approached by ABC and became the star of the second season of The Bachelorette. She ultimately chose Ian Mckee, but they broke up in February 2005. Meredith recently authored Date Night Cookbook. Phillips has appeared on the TV shows The View, On Air with Ryan Seacrest, and E's 101. Phillips attended Beaverton High School in a suburb of Portland, Oregon. She then obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from Oregon State University where she was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta. She is a make-up artist and model.
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Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern boundaries, respectively. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers, and settlers who formed an autonomous... government in Oregon Country in 1843. The Oregon Territory was created in 1848, and Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. Oregon is the 9th most extensive and the 27th most populous of the 50 United States. Salem is the state's capital and third-most-populous city; Portland is the most populous. Portland is the 29th-largest U.S. city, with a population of 583,776 and a metro population of 2,241,841 , the 23rd-largest U.S. metro area. The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the state's most densely populated area and is home to eight of the ten most populous cities.
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