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Baker County Juvenile Dept.
Third Street
Baker City, OR 97814
Baker County Courthouse
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Baker County Courthouse
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| Baker County was established from part of Wasco County and named after Col. Edward D. Baker, a U.S. Senator from Oregon. A Union officer and close friend of President Lincoln, Colonel Baker was the only member of Congress to die in the Civil War. He was killed at Balls Bluff in Auburn, which no longer exists, and was the first county seat. Baker City, which was incorporated in 1874, is the seventeenth oldest city in Oregon and became county seat in 1868. | |
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