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in Morrow county, or in any county." Marketers hailed
Hardman country as "the greatest stock range in the West." It was said in the late 1800s that the location of Hardman was grand. A local newspaper advertisement described the town as "high enough to secure plenty of fresh air, level enough for the building of a magnificent city, well-watered and surrounded by the richest and most favored soil under the sun, far enough from all the other places of business to insure excellent results if energy is property directed."
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Royse started a school in 1879 at a place called
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Hardman was established there
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Hardman. Royse first settled in the Willamette Valley, but circa 1872 he moved to the "bunch grass hills" in present-day Hardman.
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