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Skinner Butte Park (Eugene, Oregon)

USA / Oregon / Eugene / Eugene, Oregon / Cheshire Avenue, 248
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248-298 Cheshire Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
www.eugene-or.gov/Facilities.aspx?Page=detail&RID=55

Skinner Butte is a prominent hill on the north edge of downtown Eugene, Oregon beside the Willamette River. The hill is a prominent local landmark and the location of Skinner Butte Park, a municipal park. It is named for Eugene Skinner, the founder of Eugene. During the latter 20th century, it was the location of a controversial religious symbol which was removed in 1997.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner_Butte
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Coordinates:   44°3'30"N   123°5'35"W

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  • PC (guest)
    Skinner's Butte Park now features RiverPlay, a new playground featuring sand, water, a play tower, ferry and a frontier town. See http://www.eugene-or.gov/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&cached=true&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=3&in_hi_userid=2&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=217&PageID=1364
  • Leroy Basil (guest)
    The illegal Skinner Butte Cross was an affront to all freedom loving people. That is took over 30 years of legal effort to remove it and the perpetrators were never prosecuted compounded their vandalism. Still it would have been better to leave it up and erect another identical one next to it. Then the cross would have been literally what it always was figuratively, The Eugene Skinner Butte Double Cross.
  • Suck it Leroy (guest)
    You are an idiot.
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