Junction City, Oregon
[5] Junction City later became the meeting point of the east and west branches of U.S. Route 99 (which divide in Portland).In 1902, real estate developer A.C. Nielsen subdivided 1,600 acres of farmland near Junction City into small farms and advertised them in a Danish-language newspaper in Iowa.In the early 1990s, Junction City voters considered two ballot initiatives aimed at restricting LGBT civil rights.[9][10] The initiatives sought to ban the city government from enforcing civil rights protections based on sexual orientation and prohibited public money from being spent to “promote” homosexuality.[10] From 2003 to 2005, a group of local farmers posed for nude calendars to raise money for the Junction City School District.[15] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.36 square miles (6.11 km2), all of it land.[24] Lochmead Farms operates a chain of 44 Dari Mart convenience stores throughout the south Willamette Valley.The Eugene Livestock Auction, the largest in western Oregon, is also located in Junction City."[5] The city was the home of Country Coach, a large luxury motorcoach manufacturer employing over 2,000 people.[5] In March 2015, the Oregon State Hospital opened a Junction City campus with the capacity to serve up to 174 people with severe mental illness.
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