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Oregon Trivia: Oregon Oddities
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| Oregon has one community named Brothers and another named Sisters. Both are in Deschutes County. There is no word on how they get along. | Sea Lion Cave north of Florence is said to be the largest sea cave in the world. | The death rate for Oregon Indians in 1850 has been estimated to range from 50 to 90 percent in heavily populated areas. Disease brought by white men was the culprit. | Followers of the Oregon commune leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh bought him more than 90 luxury Rolls Royce automobiles in the 1980s. | |
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| The D River in Lincoln City is said to be the shortest river in the world at only 121 feet long. It runs from Devils Lake to the ocean. | A 1923 state law provided for "the sterilization of all feeble-minded, insane, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts who are a menace to society...." Sterilization was used until 1967. | In 1843, Clackamas County stretched far into present-day Canada, and reached east to the Continental Divide in what is now Montana. | After Oregon's 1857 Constitutional Convention, Oregonians voted eight to one against permitting residency to freed African-Americans. | |
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| Spirit Mountain Casino eclipsed Multnomah Falls as the most visited Oregon traveler destination in 1998. | Mill Ends Park in downtown Portland is the smallest park in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. The park is a circle two feet across. | The Ku Klux Klan was popular in many Oregon communities in the 1920s and even influenced state politics. | The largest log cabin in the world was built in Portland for the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905. It was destroyed by fire in 1964. |