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Residents of tiny Oregon town try to stop 1870s farmhouse from being replaced by water treatment plant - OregonLive

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Residents of tiny Oregon town try to stop 1870s farmhouse from being replaced by water treatment plant - oregonlive.com

As a volunteer with the Banks Historical Society, Jennifer Allen Newton keeps tabs on the happenings in her tiny Oregon town, which has a population of 1,865 at last count and a long, storied history.

Newton, however, and other residents were surprised to learn last year that the 1870s Wilkes House, one of Washington County’s surviving Oregon Trail homes, might be replaced by a city water treatment plant for the proposed 30-acre Sunset View at West Banks residential and commercial development in the city’s annexed westside.

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