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  • The area was originally used as hunting territory by the Nez Perce, Umatilla (tribe)Umatilla, Shoshone and Snake Indian tribes. It was explored and mapped by Benjamin Bonneville in the 1830s, and first settled by white people in the 1860s. The smaller national forests now combined into the local Wallowa-Whitman National Forest were created in 1908. Halfway was incorporated in 1909. The town has always been primarily a farming and ranching community. There was a small gold rush to nearby Cornucopia, OregonCornucopia, now a ghost town, and some timber industry in the early 20th century. Major employer the Idaho Power Company now operates three hydroelectric dams on the Snake River. Halfway earned a place in the history of the dot-com bubbledot-com experience when it received, and accepted in December, 1999, an offer to rename itself 'Half.com, Oregon' in exchange for $100,000, computers for the school, and other financial subsidies. Since the company half.com was bought by eBay in February, 2001, it has not been made clear whether eBay would honor the numerous financial considerations. The financial conditions that led to the city accepting half.com's offer returned in 2004, when the company owning a promissary note secured by its fairgrounds and improvements demanded payment of over $530,000. Foreclosure of the 83-year-old fairgrounds would endanger the future of the yearly Pine Valley Fair and the annual rodeo. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfway%2C_Oregon

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