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Black History Project
Call goes out
for submisssions
of more sites
A project to identify Oregon's
African American historic sites and
places has uncovered additional
locations in Eugene, La Grande,
Corvallis, Portland and other com­
munities. Project leaders are asking
the public to continue submitting
information about potential sites.
"These places can be buildings
anywhere in Oregon where African
Americans worked, sites where im ­
portant events happened, or ob­
jects created, installed, or inspired
by African Americans," said project
manager Kim S. Moreland.
The Oregon Black Pioneers, in
partnership with the State Historic
Preservation Office, launched the
property survey project "Preserv­
ing Oregon's African American His­
toric Places" in May. W orking with
community partners and volunteers,
the organizations want to protect
and preserve O regon's A frican
American historic sites and places
from 1844 to 1984.
The St. Mark CME Church has been identified as having historic
significance for African Americans in Oregon.
Committee partner Gwendolyn
Trice, founder of Maxville Heritage
Interpretive Center in Eastern Or­
egon, said that even rural counties
have significant undocum ented
structures, places and cemeteries
that translate rich African American
community architectures into his­
toric record.
The Preserving Oregon African
American Historic Places project is
a crowd-sourced project that en­
courages the public to contribute
information online that pertains to
existing structures with any African
American association in their histo­
ries and cemeteries with African
American burials.
"It is important to note that the
data submission can include prop­
erties associated with the post-war
period from the 1950 to the early
80s," said Kuri Gill, outreach and
grants coordinator for the State His­
toric Preservation office.
Recent documentations include
the historic St. Mark CME Church in
Eugene and the 1915 Portland home
of retired buffalo soldier Sgt. Alfred
J. Franklin and his wife, Cora. Addi­
tional data was received on the of­
fice building located at 2337 N. W il­
liam Ave., which was formerly occu­
pied by Dr. John Marshall, one of
Portland's early black medical doc­
tors.
The deadline for submissions has
A historic photograph o f U.S. Army buffalo soldiers, including Sgt.
Alfred J. Franklin o f Oregon (standing), who resided with his wife,
Cora in a 1 9 1 5 Portland home.
been extended to Dec. 31. You may
"Our ultimate goal is to create a
submit your information online at multiple property document that
m ak e o re g o n h isto ry .c o m o r at identifies sites for nomination to the
oregonblackpioneers.org. Provide N atio n al R eg ister o f H istoric
as much information as you can, but Places," said Moreland.
it is okay to leave blanks if you do
If you have any questions about
not know the particular information the survey project you may email
re q u e ste d .
Go
to M o relan d
at
www.m akeoregonhistory.com to historic_places@qwestoffice.net or
submit online.
Kuri Gill at Kuri.Gill @oregon.gov.
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