[PDF.01bt] Portland's Slabtown (Images of America)

Portland's Slabtown (Images of America)

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 | #960742 in Books |  2013-05-20 |  2013-05-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.31 x6.50l,.70 | File type: PDF | 128 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Portland's Slabtown|By Ginny Mapes|Great Portland, Oregon--Slabtown photos. The book is arranged into the following chapters: Johnson Creek Gulch, Indians, Pioneers, and Chinese Residents; Industry, Immigrants, and Streetcars; A Ballpark, an Expo, and World War I; Balch Creek,Baseball, and War housing; Neighborhood Decline--Then Revitalization.

Early maps, photos of| |"The most interesting and best documented sections...are the parts of the book describing long-forgotten Native American encampments in the area, which served as a neutral ground and trading post for various tribes, and the neighborhood's turn-of-the-cen

In Portland’s first decades, the northwest side remained dense forests. Native Americans camped and Chinese immigrants farmed around Guild’s Lake. In the 1870s, Slabtown acquired its unusual name when a lumber mill opened on Northrup Street. The mill’s discarded log edges were a cheap source of heating and cooking fuel. This slabwood was stacked in front of working-class homes of employees of a pottery, the docks, icehouses, slaughterhouses, and lumber ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Portland's Slabtown (Images of America)   |  Mike Ryerson, Norm Gholston, Tracy J. Prince. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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