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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 136332, member: 45&quot;]Pendleton Woolen Mills has always had a presence in Oregon&#039;s Willamette Valley, which actually started with Thomas Kay&#039;s woolen mill in Salem in 1889. </p><p><br /></p><p>His daughter inherited the business, married C.P. Bishop, a successful retail merchant, and their three sons were responsible for expanding the manufacturing to a mill in Pendleton in 1909. </p><p><br /></p><p>Headquarters for the business (which is now in the 6th generation of family ownership) was established in Portland in 1919.</p><p><br /></p><p>It still seems like a long drive from the east side of the state to the west, or vice versa, especially in the winter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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