Pendleton

Pendleton
/pen"dl teuhn/, n.
1. a city in N Oregon. 14,521.
2. a male given name.

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      city, seat (1868) of Umatilla county, northeastern Oregon, U.S., on the Umatilla River, adjacent to the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Situated on the Oregon Trail, it was founded in 1869 by G.W. Bailey and named for George Hunt Pendleton (Pendleton, George), a prominent Ohio senator. It became a wheat and cattle centre after the arrival of the railroad in 1889 and remains a centre of grain and vegetable production and ranching. Industries include food processing and lumber and woolen mills. It is headquarters for Umatilla National Forest and the site of an Oregon State University agricultural experiment station and of Blue Mountain Community College (1962). The Pendleton Round-Up (rodeo) has been held annually in September since 1910. Inc. 1880. Pop. (1990) 15,126; (2000) 16,354.

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