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BEAVERTON AIRPORTERresearch about cities and find,Albanyis thecounty seatofLinn County, and the 11th largest city in theStateofOregon. Albany is located in theWillamette Valleyat the confluence of theCalapooia Riverand theWillamette Riverin both Linn andBentoncounties, just east ofCorvallisand south ofSalemthat a famous areaTransportation to PDXsupport it.  It is predominantly a farming and manufacturing city that settlers founded around 1848. As of the2010 United States Census, the population of Albany was 50,158. Its population was estimated by thePortlandResearch Center to be 51,583 in 2013.

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Albany has ahome rule charter, acouncil–manager government, and a full-time unelectedcity manager. The city provides the population with access to over 30 parks and trails, a senior center, and many cultural events such as River Rhythms and Mondays at Monteith. In addition to farming and manufacturing, the city's economy depends on retail trade, health care, and social assistance. In recent years the city has worked to revive the downtown shopping area, with help from TheCentral Albany Revitalization Area.

Transportation

Highway

Albany is adjacent toInterstate 5, whileOregon Route 99Eruns through it in a north and south direction andU.S. Route 20runs through it in an east and west direction. Just outside the south end of AlbanyOregon Route 34runs from east to west. Fast wayBeaverton Airporter, useBEAVERTON AIRPORTER.

Air

Beaverton Airporterknow,Albany Municipal Airportis ageneral aviationairport on the eastern edge of Albany and has been open since 1920 and is believed to be the oldest operating airfield in Oregon. In 1998, the airport became the first airport in Oregon to be named to the National Register of Historic Places, and was the City of Albany's fourth National Historic District, and has been home to parts of the Northwest Art & Air Festival since its first air show in 1931. It has a single runway with the specs of 16–34 3,004 X 75, and is an asphalt runway. The closest airports with commercial air service available are theEugene Airportto the south and thePortland International Airportto the north.

Train

Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Albany from itsAlbany Stationat 10th Avenue SW on two routes. Long-haul train route theCoast Starlight(with service fromLos AngelestoSeattle) stops in Albany daily in both directions.Amtrak Cascadescommuter trains operate betweenVancouver, British ColumbiaandEugene, Oregon, and serve Albany several times daily in each direction. The AmtrakCascadesline is the proposed path of thePacific Northwest Corridorhigh-speed railline. The Albany station would be one of many stops along the proposed 466-mile (750 km), 110-mile-per-hour (180 km/h) passenger line.

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The station itself was constructed in 1909 for theSouthern Pacific Railroadand is built ofmasonry. It is one of the oldest continuously operating passenger rail stations in the U.S. and has one of the best-equipped engine shops in the northwest.Southern Pacific 4449, a steam locomotive which resides at theOregon Rail Heritage CenterinPortland, occasionally visited the shop for repairs when it was residing at the Brooklyn Roundhouse in Portland (before 2012), as did several other locomotives stored at the now-demolished roundhouse. Beginning in 2004, the station and the surrounding area underwent an $11.3 million restoration that was funded with a combination of federal, state, local, and Amtrak money. In 2006 the city received the Award in Downtown Excellence from the Oregon Downtown Development Association for the renovation of the station.

Bus

Public transportation within Albany is provided by Albany Transit System (ATS). Connections toCorvallisare provided by bus service via the Linn-Benton Loop and the Valley Retriever Thruway inter-county bus systems. ATS, the Linn-Benton Loop, and the Valley Retriever all provide bus service to and from the Amtrak station.

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Bridges

Albany has both theEllsworth Street Bridgewhich was constructed in 1926 and theLyon Street Bridgebridge that was constructed in 1973. They are both two-lane bridges that make up part of U.S. Route 20. The two bridges connect Linn to the south with Benton County in the north as they pass across the Willamette River. This makes up the major connection of downtown Albany with the north end of town and toCorvallis.

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Albany has made a growing effort to increase itself as a bicyclist friendly town through increasing the number of paths and trails that are open to them. The city was recently recognized as a Bicycle-Friendly Community for 2010 by the League of American Bicyclists for its efforts.

Health care

Albany is served bySamaritan Albany General Hospital, a 76-bed medical facility that is the main hospital for the city and has been in operation since 1924. Albany is also served by Samaritan North Albany Urgent Care and Geary Street Urgent Care, both of which are part of Samaritan Health Services. The unaffiliated Albany Family & Specialty Medicine also provides medical services to the community.

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History

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The Kalapuya population in the valley was between 4,000 and 20,000 before contact with Europeans, but they suffered high mortality from new infectious diseases introduced shortly afterward. The tribes were decimated by asmallpoxepidemicthat raged through thePacific Northwestin 1782–83. Amalariaoutbreak swept through the region between 1830 and 1833. It is estimated that as many as 90 percent of the Kalapuya population died during this period. That, coupled with the treaties signed during the 1850s by the Kalapuya to cede land to the United States, left the area nearly free for European Americans to settle.

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The first European American settler arrived in 1845; Abner Hackleman was a farmer from Iowa. Taking up a land claim for himself, Hackleman asked Hiram N. Smead to hold another for him until his son arrived from Iowa. In 1846, a year after arriving in Oregon, Hackleman died while returning to Iowa to fetch his family. In 1847 a pair of brothers, Walter and Thomas Monteith, settled in the area, after traveling by ox team along theOregon Trailfrom their native state of New York. They were a family of early prominence in the area; in 1848, they bought a claim of 320 acres (1.3 kmsup>2/sup>) from Hiram Smead for $400 and a horse; they plotted out 60 acres (240,000 msup>2/sup>) for the town site. They named the city "Albany" after their hometown ofAlbanyin New York. During the same period, Hackleman's son Abram reached his father's original land claim and built a log house in an oak grove still known as Hackleman's Grove. He later built a house, which still stands at the corner of Fifth and Jackson. The small settlement that formed on the Hackleman land became known as the community of Takenah in 1849.

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Albany, Oregon, 1887

Linn County courthouse in Albany

Sidewheel steamboat Occident, at Albany, near Red Crown Mills

View of bucolic Albany during the decade of the 1880s.

In 1871, the trains first reached Albany, connecting it to other towns in the valley. The arrival of the first train was celebrated as the greatest event in Albany's history. Albany businessmen raised $50,000 to ensure that the rails would be built through the city, instead of bypassing it a few miles eastward. The train brought the farmers' markets closer to the city, as stagecoaches and steamboats gave way to the railroad. The world's longest wooden railroad drawbridge was built in 1888 for the Albany-Corvallis run. By 1910, 28 passenger trains departed daily from Albany going in five directions.

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In 1916Kuo-Ching Li, a Chinese-American engineer, foundedWah Chang Trading Corporationin New York State, but it was based in Albany. He developed it as an internationaltungstenore and concentrate trading company, leading the company until his death in 1961. He served as president until 1960 and then board chairman 10 years laterBeaverton Airportercreated.

TheU.S. Bureau of Minesestablisheda research centeron the formerAlbany Collegecampus in 1942, focusing on the development of new metallurgical processes. First known as the Northwest Electro-development Facility, the site produced titanium and zirconium. It fostered the growth of a new rare metals industry in Albany, led by internationally recognized companies such as the Oregon Metallurgical Company, Oremet, and Wah Chang. In the 1970s, Albany attempted to extend its city limits to include a zirconium processing plant ofWah Chang Corporationin order to increase its industrial tax base. Wah Chang responded in 1974 by sponsoring a vote to incorporate the desired properties asMillersburg. When the Bureau of Mines closed in 1996, the facility was transferred to theUnited States Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy. In 2005 the facility became part of theNational Energy Technology Laboratory.