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On this day in 1851, the first Surveyor General of Oregon, John B. Preston drove a cedar stake into the ground three miles west of Portland. This stake defined the "starting point" for all land surveys in the Pacific Northwest. Through this stake, north and south runs the Willamette Meridian and east and west, the base line. All maps and deeds refer to these lines. On July 25, 1885, the cedar stake was replaced by a stone marker known as the "Willamette Stone".
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