Portland Names and Neighborhoods: Their Historic Origins
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Book Overview
Hundreds of street, school, and park names are in daily use in the city, but most of them have become mere labels, their origins forgotten. Here are more than 950 such names -- alphabetically... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:083230347X
ISBN13:9780832303470
Release Date:January 1979
Publisher:Binford & Mort Publishing
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"
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An Essential Book of Portland History for Anyone!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This, published in the late 1970s, is a gem. Local historian Eugene Snyder, who ought to be justly renowned for his approachable, "historian-for-the-rest-of-us" approach to Portland Oregon history, produced a genius book that is a friendly, chatty rundown of Portland street names, address system history, and where all those names really came from. Among the the things you'll know are: * Why Ladd's Addition came about, and why it looks the way it does * Why Downtown's Ankeny Street is so remarkably narrow * Why Portland's address grid is the way it is (and why we needed a Great Renaming) * Why those streets in NW Portland run alphabetically * What game Lovejoy and Pettygrove played to choose the name of the new town This is a book that is lovingly done, as thoroughly researched as can be and despite its dating (copyright was 1979) still essential. Published by a small Portland press which as since passed into history, it's hard to find, so get it while you can!
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