After the war, the Oregon had an overhaul and was assigned to the U.S. Asiatic Squadron and participated in the Philippine-American War (Philippines Insurrection). It also sailed to Japan and reinforced the Eight-Nation Allied Force in China's Boxer Rebellion.
In 1901, she returned to the U.S. for a refit before returning to her Asiatic Station before being decommissioned in 1906. During the next several years, the Oregon was modernized and then recommissioned in 1911 and patrolled off the west coast of the United States.
During World War I, the ship saw no action but did escort troop ships carrying soldiers bound for the Russian Civil War. Afterwards, she was decommissioned for a short time in 1919 before recommissioned for a short time the same year and hosted President Woodrow Wilson during a review of the Pacific Fleet in Seattle, Washington.
In 1920, she was assigned the hull number BB-3 and beginning a year later, a group of naval enthusiasts started a campaign to turn her into a naval museum to be based somewhere in her namesake state. The Washington Naval Treaty in 1922 required the Oregon to be demilitarized which she was.
By 1924 she had become listed on the Naval register as an "Unclassified Relic."
In 1925, the Navy loaned the Oregon to that state and she was moored in Portland and restored as a museum vessel.
But, That Was Not Her End. --Cooter
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