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Champoeg (/ʃæmˈpuːiː/ sham-POO-ee,
historically /ʃæmˈpuːɛɡ/ sham-POO-eg) is a
former town in the U.S.
state of Oregon. Now a
ghost town, it was an important...
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Northwest region of
North America. Its
formation had been
advanced at the
Champoeg Meetings since February 17, 1841, and it
existed from May 2, 1843 until...
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Champoeg Cr**** is a tributary,
roughly 6
miles (9.7 km) long, of the
Willamette River in the U.S.
state of Oregon. The cr**** is
formed by the confluence...
- Oregon. The
county was
originally named the
Champooick District,
after Champoeg (earlier Champooick), a
meeting place on the
Willamette River. On September...
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Champoeg Meetings were the
first attempts at
formal governance by European-American and
French Canadian pioneers in the
Oregon Country on the Pacific...
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Native American encampment and
later town
known as
Champoeg, Oregon.
These first Champoeg Meetings eventually led to
further discussions, and in 1843...
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Mission was
elected supreme judge. Bab****
chaired two
meetings in 1842 at
Champoeg, (halfway
between Lee's
mission and
Oregon City), to
discuss wolves and...
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Aaron Chamberlain,
Champoeg Anderson Cox,
Champoeg Robert Newell,
Champoeg William H. Rector,
Champoeg Willard Hall Rees,
Champoeg Medorem Crawford, Clackamas...
- the peak of its
economy in the 1850s, as it
competed with
neighboring Champoeg,
Oregon for
shipping business from the
surrounding French Prairie. Most...
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referred to the May 2, 1843, vote by
Oregon Country settlers at the
third Champoeg Meeting to form a
provisional government independent of the
United States...
