Eugene is named after its founder, Eugene SkinnerEugene Franklin Skinner. In 1846, Skinner erected t...

1. What is the history of Eugene, Oregon?
Eugene is named after its founder, Eugene SkinnerEugene Franklin Skinner. In 1846, Skinner
erected the first cabin in the area. It was used as a trading post and was dubbed as a post office in
1850. Skinner founded Eugene in 1862 and later ran a ferry service across the Willamette River
where the Ferry Street Bridge now stands.
Columbia College was founded around the same area as the University of Oregon, a few years
earlier, but fell victim to two different major fires over four years, and it was decided not to rebuild
it again. Even today, people commonly refer to a part of south Eugene as "College Hill," because it
was the former location of Columbia College (there is no college there today).
The town raised the initial funding to start a public University, which later became the University of
Oregon, with the hope of turning the small town into a cultural center of learning. In 1872, the
Oregon Legislative AssemblyLegislative Assembly passed a bill ratifying the University. Take note of
various simple upgrades which can be madeto a. Many installed pumps were not initially designed
for their current function. Typically, a line in a plant changes and the pump that once
providedcooling water to an injection molding machine is now asked to move oil from a rail car to a
tank. Sadly, this causes a substantial number of problems for the pump and the facility. Pumps
operate where the pump curve crosses the system curve. If you relocate a pump from one system to
another, this means that the system curve is different. This new system may submersible water
pumps cause the pump to operate away from its best efficiency point, leading to noise and other
component problems that are simply symptoms of a mis-matched pump and system.typical
centrifugal or positive displacement pump. In pumps with overhung impellers, moving to a solid
shaft is a simple improvement in relation to typical sleeved shafts. Mechanical seals can be
upgraded with the addition of silicon carbide faces, and elastomers ought to be replaced with EPDM.
In addition, magnetic bearing protectors would be a gigantic step up compared to the lip seals that
many water pumps use to keep bearing sump oil clean.
The nearby town of Albany was Eugene's biggest competitor to provide a home for this institute. In
1873, community member J. H. D. Henderson donated the hilltop land for the campus, overlooking
the city. The University first opened in 1876 with regents electing first faculty and naming John
Wesley Johnson as president with the first students registering on 16 October, 1876. It would not be
until 1877 that the first building would be completed; it would be later known as Deady Hall (for the
first Board of Regents President and community leader Judge Matthew DeadyMatthew P. Deady.)
The University of Oregon has been a leader in diversity since its very beginning; its inaugural class
included two Japanese students. However, today less than 400 of the approximate 16,000
undergrads are African-American.
Eugene is the home of Oregon's largest publicly owned electric utility, the Eugene Water & Electric
Board, which got its start in the first decade of the 20th century after a typhoid epidemic was traced
to the groundwater supply. Eugene condemned the private utility and began treating river water
(first the Willamette, but now the McKenzie) for domestic use. EWEB got into the electric business
when power was needed for the water pumps and excess electricity was used for street lighting.

2. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%2C_Oregon