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Flora

A north-county community whose past and present deserve to be read together.

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Wallowa Lake and the mountains, seen from the county park at the north end. Regional landscape context for this record.
Wallowa country

Wallowa Lake and the mountains, seen from the county park at the north end. Regional landscape context for this record.

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 16 May 2012 · CC BY 4.0 · Image & source ↗

Flora is covered in the chamber’s north-county guide alongside Troy. The atlas keeps a separate community record so buildings, former institutions, and contributed recollections can be connected to the right place.

A community can retain significance even when its institutions change. Records of former uses remain discoverable in the historical view.

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce ↗
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The wider landscape.

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A road, fence, and open prairie on the Zumwalt.View photograph
Zumwalt Prairie

A road across the prairie

Rick Swart, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife2015-11-15
Glacier Peak reflected in Glacier Lake, in the Eagle Cap Wilderness.View photograph
Eagle Cap Wilderness

Glacier Peak, reflected

Matthew Tharp / U.S. Forest Service2012-08-11
The Wallowa Wild and Scenic River, photographed in May 2017 by the Bureau of Land Management.View photograph
Wallowa River

Wallowa Wild and Scenic River (34998394195).jpg

Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington2017-05-25
Meet the community

Around Flora

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Help us know Flora.

What the atlas holds for Flora today: one sourced introduction and no other researched record, no state business registrations, 3 photographs and no first-person account.

What we are asking

  • What is Flora’s own story, told by people who live or lived there rather than as a side trip?
  • Which buildings and former institutions in Flora should be connected to this record?
  • What do people remember about Flora that no published record holds?
  • How do care, food, rides, repairs and emergency help reach Flora in ordinary life?
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