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Lane County at 150
Found by a logger near Vida in 1960, a hemlock tree two centuries old bears witness to the past when, in the spring of 1867, a young man named Silas R. Condra paused with a practiced hand to memorialize his family's brief Oregon history. Fourteen years earlier, Silas and his family arrived by way of the Oregon Trail. He was eight years old. JUNE 12, 1867 SILAS R. CONDRA BORN JULY 11, 1845 IN NOX CO. ILL. CROSSED THE PLAINS IN 1853 --Silas R. Condra, 1867
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