Salem
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- Names
Salem
Chemeketa
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located in NW Oregon on Willamette river; missionaries sold homesites to finance the Oregon Institute (1842), a religious school for Amerindians which later became Willamette University; town prospered from traffic on the Oregon Trail.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Lilian P. Bain (American, 1873-1949)
Clyde Leon Keller (American, 1872-1962)
D.E. May (American, 1952-2019)
- Active
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