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Website. 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]
This is a list of mayors of the city of Eugene, Oregon.The years following each name denote each mayor's term in office. Kitty Piercy, mayor from 2005–2017.. J. B. Underwood (1864–1869) [1] (official office name at the time: President of the Board of Trustees)
LGBTQ culture in Eugene, Oregon predates the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969, but that event coincided with organized efforts in Lane County, Oregon, to support and celebrate LGBTQ people. Even though Eugene has been rated on lists of cities friendly to LGBT populations, there are very few venues specifically for the LGBTQ community in the ...
The School of Journalism and Communication is one of the oldest journalism schools in the United States; it began as a department in 1912 and became a professional school in 1916. The SOJC is located in Allen Hall on the University of Oregon's Eugene campus. [95] The School of Law was formed in 1884 in Portland and moved to Eugene in early 1915 ...
Coordinates: 44.058356°N 123.105326°W. Whiteaker Neighborhood (Eugene, Oregon) Whiteaker (almost exclusively called " the Whiteaker") is a neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is located to the northwest of downtown Eugene, and is home to primarily working class residents. Though it has served as an agricultural and commercial ...
Community activism in Eugene, Oregon. Eugene has a long history of community activism, civil unrest, and protest activity. [1] Eugene's cultural status as a place for alternative thought grew along with the University of Oregon in the turbulent 1960s, and its reputation as an outsider's locale grew with the numerous anarchist protests in the ...
Plaque for the sculpture. Pete Helzer's statue depicting Rosa Parks sitting in a bus seat was unveiled on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2009, the same day Lane Transit District's Eugene Station Plaza was renamed Rosa Parks Plaza, making Eugene the first U.S. city to dedicate a bus station in Parks' honor.
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Eugene, Oregon. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.