Editing Junction City, Oregon (section)

== History ==
[[Image:Junction City Hotel Block 1908.jpg|thumb|left|Junction City hotel block in 1908]]
[[Image:Danish American Farmhouse Junction City OR.jpg|thumb|left|alt=A small, brown house with wood siding and a steep roof.|Original, c. 1902 Danish-American farmhouse in Junction City]]
[[Image:Junction City Oregon 1920.jpg|thumb|Junction City, c. 1920]]

The city was incorporated in 1872.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19420104&id=v81YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=negDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6678,4684615&hl=en 
| title=Names of Lane County Communities Reveal Interesting Histories, Anecdotes 
| newspaper=[[Eugene Register-Guard]] 
| date=January 4, 1942 
| access-date=April 23, 2015 
| page=4 
| archive-date=January 2, 2022 
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102180202/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19420104&id=v81YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=negDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6678,4684615&hl=en 
| url-status=live }}</ref> Junction City was named by railroad magnate [[Ben Holladay]], who decided that it would be where the rail line on the east side of the [[Willamette Valley]] would meet the rail line on the west side. The westside line, however, was not built according to plan and the rail junction never materialized.<ref name="JC History"/> Junction City later became the meeting point of the east and west branches of [[U.S. Route 99#Oregon|U.S. Route 99]] (which divide in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]]).

In 1902, real estate developer A.C. Nielsen subdivided 1,600 acres of farmland near Junction City into small farms and advertised them in a [[Danish language|Danish-language]] newspaper in [[Iowa]].<ref name="JC History"/><ref name="BYU">{{Cite journal |journal= The Bridge 
|title=Oregon Danish Colony: Ethnic Assimilation In Junction City, 1902-1952 
|last1=Rasmussen 
|first1=Gerald 
|last2=Larsen 
|first2=Otto 
|date=1998 
|url= https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1431&context=thebridge 
|volume=22 
|issue=2 
|access-date=2022-12-10}}</ref> Many families of [[Danish Americans|Danish ancestry]] subsequently settled in the area. Danish was spoken regularly in the area until the 1940s, with [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America|Lutheran Church]] services offered in Danish until 1951.<ref name="Lutheran">{{Cite web|title = Faith Lutheran Church History
|url = http://faithlutheranjc.org/faith-history/
|access-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-date = 2022-12-11
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221211034302/http://faithlutheranjc.org/faith-history/
|url-status = live}}</ref> In 1961, residents of Junction City founded the [[Scandinavian Festival]], an annual event that remains popular to this day, to celebrate the legacy of these and other Scandinavian immigrants to the Junction City area.

In the early 1990s, Junction City voters considered two [[Initiatives and referendums in the United States#Initiatives|ballot initiatives]] aimed at restricting [[LGBT rights in the United States|LGBT civil rights]].<ref name="lambda">{{Cite web|title = Anti-Gay Ballot Initiatives Prior to Romer v. Evans|url = https://www.lambdalegal.org/publications/antigay-ballot-initiatives
|access-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221210220951/https://www.lambdalegal.org/publications/antigay-ballot-initiatives
|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="streetroots">{{Cite web|title = Oregon's other gay record
|work = [[Street Roots]]
|url = https://www.streetroots.org/news/2014/05/06/oregon-s-other-gay-record-recent-history-anti-gay-ballot-initiatives-around-state
|access-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221210222626/https://www.streetroots.org/news/2014/05/06/oregon-s-other-gay-record-recent-history-anti-gay-ballot-initiatives-around-state
|url-status = live}}</ref> The initiatives sought to ban the city government from enforcing civil rights protections based on sexual orientation and prohibited public money from being spent to “promote” homosexuality.<ref name="streetroots"/><ref>{{Cite web|title = Voters in Oregon Back Local Anti-Gay Rules
|last = Egan
|first = Timothy
|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/01/us/voters-in-oregon-back-local-anti-gay-rules.html
|newspaper= [[New York Times]]
|access-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-date = 2022-05-26
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220526122146/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/01/us/voters-in-oregon-back-local-anti-gay-rules.html
|url-status = live}}</ref> The first ballot initiative was narrowly passed by voters on June 29, 1993, by a vote of 631 to 628 (50.12% in favor).<ref>{{Cite web|title = Lane County Elections Archive
|url = https://apps.lanecounty.org/Elections/Election/Index/230#election2
|access-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221210224147/https://apps.lanecounty.org/Elections/Election/Index/230
|url-status = live}}</ref> The election was subsequently invalidated due to evidence of [[electoral fraud|voter fraud]] by supporters.<ref name="oral history">{{Cite web|title = Oral History Interview with Diane DePaolis
|url = https://oregondigital.org/downloads/oregondigital:df73c125d
|access-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-date = 2022-12-10
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221210224602/https://oregondigital.org/downloads/oregondigital:df73c125d
|url-status = live}}</ref> Litigation led by the [[ACLU|ACLU of Oregon]] showed that a Junction City church had allowed several members of their congregation who did not live in Junction City to fraudulently register to vote in Junction City by claiming the church was their residential address.<ref name="oral history"/> A similar initiative was placed before voters again  in March 1994 and passed with a larger margin.<ref name="lambda"/> In 1995, all Anti-LBGT local ordinances in Oregon were invalidated when the [[Oregon Supreme Court]] upheld [[Oregon Legislature|House Bill 3500]].<ref name="streetroots"/>

From 2003 to 2005, a group of local farmers posed for [[nude calendar]]s to raise money for the Junction City School District.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Men Drop Their Drawers for Local Schools
|website = [[Fox News]]
|date = 25 March 2015
|url = https://www.foxnews.com/story/men-drop-their-drawers-for-local-schools
|access-date = 2016-01-15
|archive-date = 2022-09-28
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220928032006/https://www.foxnews.com/story/men-drop-their-drawers-for-local-schools
|url-status = live}}</ref> Sales in over 63 countries raised more than $650,000.<ref name="wine notes">{{Cite web|title = Oregon winery owner's astonishing past life reads like fast-moving fiction: Wine notes
|last = Cole
|first = Katherine
|url = https://www.oregonlive.com/foodday/2015/09/post_34.html
|newspaper= [[The Oregonian]]
|access-date = 2022-12-11
|archive-date = 2022-08-12
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220812002931/https://www.oregonlive.com/foodday/2015/09/post_34.html
|url-status = live}}</ref>