Road to Recovery
1 Jan 2020
Millennial- and Gen X-owned businesses inject new life into the remote farming and ranching communities of Burns and Hines.
The colorful mural inside the newly renovated Historic Central Hotel in the Eastern Oregon town of Burns is a reminder of this remote farming community’s once vibrant economic past. The mural depicts the heyday of the now-closed Hines Lumber mill, located in nearby Hines.
In the 1960s, it was one of the largest pine mills in the world, producing more than 134 million board-feet of lumber.
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