Monmouth, Oregon
Polk County · Population 11,100 · Card no. 1876
A Polk County college town built around Western Oregon University, and dry by charter until 2002.
- The town's founders banned alcohol in the 1850s and the ban held for 150 years.
- Western Oregon began as Monmouth University in 1856.
- Independence is two miles east.
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