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is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. This town took its name from the fact that the post office, located on the Alexander Stalker ranch, was halfway between Pine and Cornucopia. The population was 337 at the 2000 census.
The area was originally used as hunting territory by the Nez Perce, Umatilla and Shoshone tribes.
It was explored and mapped by Benjamin Bonneville in the 1830s, and first settled by white people in the 1860s. The smaller national forests now combined into the local Wallowa–Whitman National Forest were created in 1908. Halfway was incorporated in 1909.
The town has always been primarily a farming and ranching community. There was a small gold rush to nearby Cornucopia, now a ghost town, and some timber industry in the early 20th century. Major employer the Idaho Power Company now operates three hydroelectric dams on the Snake River.
Halfway earned a place in the history of the dot-com experience when it received, and accepted in December 1999, an offer to rename itself
in exchange for $100,000, computers for the school, and other financial subsidies. Since the company half.com was bought by eBay in February 2001, it has not been made clear whether eBay would honor the numerous financial considerations.
The financial conditions that led to the city accepting half.com's offer returned in 2004, when the company owning a promissory note secured by its fairgrounds and improvements demanded payment of over $530,000. Foreclosure of the 83-year-old fairgrounds would endanger the future of the yearly Baker County Fair and the annual rodeo.