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  1. www .eugene-or .gov. Eugene ( / juːˈdʒiːn / yoo-JEEN) is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Oregon Coast. [9]

  2. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eugene, Oregon. City. Nicknames: Emerald Valley, The Emerald City, Track Town USA. Motto (s): A Great City for the Arts and Outdoors. Location in Oregon. Coordinates: 44°03′20″N 123°08′12″W.

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  3. Eugene is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Oregon Coast.

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  5. The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, [8] the university also has two Portland locations, and manages a marine station, called the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology , in Charleston ; and an observatory, called Pine Mountain Observatory , in Central Oregon .

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    The Whiteaker is named after Oregon's first governor, John Whiteaker, who purchased ten blocks there in 1890. A school in the neighborhood named after the governor prompted the usage of the term. It is located northwest of downtown Eugene along the Willamette River. U.S. Route 99passed through the Whiteaker until the 1930s, leading to the creation ...

    In 1990, The Register-Guard reported that the Whiteaker neighborhood had 5,050 residents. The paper also reported that the neighborhood was 90% white, 7% Hispanic, and 3% black.As of 2000, the population of the Whiteaker was 6,000. The neighborhood was roughly 80% white. In the 1990s the neighborhood saw an influx of young people from around the Un...

    The Whiteaker neighborhood is known for a large concentration of young, politically radical residents. In the late 1990s, local activists gained notoriety after organizing successful tree sitting demonstrations. In 1997, a tree sitting demonstration in Eugene was responded to by local police with what was seen as overwhelming force, an event which ...

    Well known residents of the Whiteaker include the Green Anarchist writer John Zerzan and the memoirist Margaret Seltzer.

    Several structures along Blair Boulevard—one of the main streets through the neighborhood—and the surrounding area make up the Eugene Blair Boulevard Commercial Historic District. Prominent local businesses include Sam Bond's Garage, a local tavern; the Ninkasi Brewing Company; Izakaya Meiji company, a Japanese tapas and whiskey bar; and the Whitea...

    Ninkasi Brewing Company
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  6. The Register-Guard is a daily newspaper in the northwestern United States, published in Eugene, Oregon. It was formed in a 1930 merger of two Eugene papers, the Eugene Daily Guard and the Morning Register. The paper serves the Eugene-Springfield area, as well as the Oregon Coast, Umpqua River valley, and surrounding areas. As of 2019, it had a ...

  7. Eugene (population 173,000 in 2019) is a city in Oregon at the southern end of the Willamette Valley near the confluence of the Mckenzie and Willamette rivers. It is best known for being the home of the University of Oregon.

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