Oregon's successful and widely recognized wine industry can be traced to this place, where Richard Sommer first planted Pinot noir grapes in 1961. The Umpqua and Willamette valleys' climates and topographies are much like those of European wine re…
This tree
dedicated by the Veterans
Administration in 1976 to
America's Medal of Honor
recipients who helped
make this Bicentennial
observance possible
"By gallantry above and
beyond the call of duty"