Timeline of Portland, Oregon

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Portland, Oregon, United States.

19th century

  • 1845 – Portland, named after Portland, Maine, was founded by two real-estate men from New England.[1]
  • 1850 – The Oregonian newspaper founded.[2][1]
  • 1851
    • Portland incorporated.[3][1]
    • Hugh O'Bryant becomes mayor.
    • City's first general merchandise store opens, becoming Olds & King in 1878.
    • Portland Public Schools is founded.
  • 1855 – Lone Fir Cemetery established.
  • 1857 – Aaron Meier's mercantile store, predecessor of Meier & Frank, in business.
  • 1860 – Portland Gas Light Company in operation.[4]
  • 1864 – Library Association of Portland founded.[5]
  • 1866 – Oregon Herald newspaper begins publication.[2]
  • 1868 – Population: 6,717.[6]
  • 1869 – Lincoln High School opened as Portland High School.
  • 1871 – City Park established.
  • 1872 – Portland Street Railway horsecars begin operating.
  • 1873 - Fire.[1]
  • 1875 – Good Samaritan Hospital founded.
  • 1876 – University of Oregon established.[1]
  • 1880 – Willamette University College of Medicine relocates to Portland.
    • Portland Chamber of Commerce founded.
  • 1881 – Unsightly beggar ordinance effected.[7]
  • 1882 – River View Cemetery established.
  • 1883
    • Northern Pacific Railway begins operating.[1]
    • Population: 20,000 (approx).[1]
  • 1885 – Web-Foot Cook Book published.[8][1][relevant?]
  • 1886 – Oregon Staats Zeitung newspaper begins publication.[9]
  • 1887 – First Morrison Bridge, the first bridge across the Willamette River in Portland (and predecessor of the current Morrison Bridge), opens.[10]
  • 1888 – Portland Zoo established.
  • 1890
  • 1891
Portland City Hall

20th century

1900s–1940s

Washington Park main entrance

1950s–1990s

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Britannica 1910.
  2. ^ a b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Auditor's Office (2000). "Portland Historical Timeline". City of Portland. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  4. ^ Purdy 1947.
  5. ^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  6. ^ Reid 1879.
  7. ^ Susan M. Schweik (2010). The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8361-0.
  8. ^ Jacqueline Williams (1999). "Much Depends on Dinner: Pacific Northwest Foodways, 1843–1900". Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 90 (2): 68–76. JSTOR 40492465.
  9. ^ "Oregon: Multnomah", Pacific States Newspaper Directory (6th ed.), San Francisco: Palmer & Rey, 1894, OCLC 35801625
  10. ^ Wortman 2006, p. 53.
  11. ^ Oregon Historical Quarterly
  12. ^ Hermida, Arianne. "IWW Yearbook 1907". IWW History Project. University of Washington. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  13. ^ "Portland Mill Men Strike". Industrial Union Bulletin. Vol. 1, no. 3. 16 March 1907. p. 1.
  14. ^ "History". Audubon Society of Portland. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  15. ^ a b c d "Movie Theaters in Portland, OR". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  16. ^ a b Federal Writers' Project 1951.
  17. ^ Ulrich Hardt; Jeff LaLande; Linda Tamura (eds.). "Oregon Encyclopedia". Portland State University. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  18. ^ Thompson 2006, p. 113–114, 121.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g "Sister Cities". City of Portland. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
  20. ^ "Mission & History". Portland: Food Front. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  21. ^ "NCGA Co-ops: Oregon". Iowa: National Cooperative Grocers Association. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  22. ^ Williams, Linda (November 25, 1980). "Beaming Ivancie sworn in as Portland mayor". The Oregonian. p. 1.
  23. ^ Mike Tigas; Sisi Wei, eds. (9 May 2013). "Portland, Oregon". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  24. ^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
  25. ^ "Downtown Portland". Downtown Portland Marketing Initiative. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  26. ^ a b c "Portland Restaurants". Food & Wine. Time Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  27. ^ "Welcome to the City of Portland". Archived from the original on 1996-12-27 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  28. ^ Michael Barone; Chuck McCutcheon (2011). Almanac of American Politics 2012. Washington, D.C.: National Journal Group. ISBN 978-0-226-03807-0.
  29. ^ "Staff". Urban Greenspaces Institute. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  30. ^ "About". Portland Indymedia. Archived from the original on February 3, 2001.
  31. ^ "p:ear". GuideStar. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  32. ^ a b "Portland, Oregon". Hackerspaces. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
  33. ^ "Frugal Portland". New York Times. May 7, 2009.
  34. ^ "Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas (2010)". US Census Bureau. 2012.
  35. ^ "Street Books". Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  36. ^ "Two dead, thousands without power after U.S. Pacific Northwest storms", Reuters, December 10, 2015

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

  • G. Owens, ed. (1866), "Portland, Oregon", General directory and business guide of the principal towns in the upper country, San Francisco: A. Gensoul
  • John Mortimer Murphy, ed. (1873), "Multnomah County: Portland", Oregon business directory and state gazetteer, S.J. McCormick
  • William Reid (1879), Progress of Oregon and Portland from 1868 to 1878, Portland, Or: D.H. Stearns & Co., OL 25160344M
  • Harvey Whitefield Scott (1890), History of Portland, Oregon, Syracuse, N.Y: D. Mason & Co., OL 23304856M

Published in the 20th century

1900s–1960s

  • "Portland (Oregon)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 120.
  • Portland, Oregon, its history and builders, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1911, OCLC 1183569, OL 6568578M
    • v.2, v.3
  • Sayer, James J. "Our City Councils. II. Portland—the Commission Plan." National Municipal Review 13 (1924): 502-7.
  • Ruby Fay Purdy (1947), Rose City of the World: Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, OCLC 2534603, OL 6511508M
  • Federal Writers' Project (1951). "Portland". Oregon: End of the Trail. American Guide Series. Portland: Binfords & Mort. hdl:2027/mdp.39015010544792.
  • Maddux, Percy. City on the Willamette: The Story of Portland, Oregon. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1952.
  • Polk's Portland City Directory, Seattle: R.L. Polk & Company, 1957, OL 22890124M
    • 1959 ed.
    • 1962 ed.

1970s–1990s

  • Paul G. Meriam. "Urban Elite in the Far West, Portland, Oregon, 1870–1890." Arizona and the West 18 (1976): 41-52.
  • Gould, Charles F. "Portland Italians, 1880–1920." Oregon Historical Quarterly 77 (1976): 239-60.
  • MacColl, E. Kimbark (1976). The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1885 to 1915. Portland, Oregon: Georgian Press. OCLC 2645815.
  • MacColl, E. Kimbark (1979). The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1915 to 1950. Portland, Oregon: Georgian Press. ISBN 0-9603408-1-5.
  • Paul G. Meriam. "The ‘Other Portland’: A Statistical Note on the Foreign-born, 1860–1910." Oregon Historical Quarterly 80 (1979): 258-68.
  • Toll, William. The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class: Portland Jewry over Four Generations. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982.
  • Carl Abbott. Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth-Century City. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
  • Blackford, Mansell. "The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning in Portland, Oregon, 1903–1914." The Western Historical Quarterly 15 (1984): 39-56.
  • William Toll. "Ethnicity and Stability: The Italians and Jews of South Portland, 1900–1940." Pacific Historical Review 54 (1985): 161-90.
  • E. Kimbark MacColl. Merchants, Money, and Power: The Portland Establishment, 1843–1913. Portland: Georgian Press, 1988.
  • Bigelow, William, and Norman Diamond. "Agitate, Educate, Organize: Portland, 1934." Oregon Historical Quarterly 89 (1988): 5-29.
  • Horowitz, David A. "The Crusade against Chain Stores: Portland's Independent Merchants, 1928–1935." Oregon Historical Quarterly 89 (1988): 340-68.
  • Dodds, Gordon, and Craig Wollner. The Silicon Forest: High Tech in the Portland Area, 1945–1985. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990.
  • Wollner, Craig. The City Builders: One Hundred Years of Union Carpentry in Portland, Oregon, 1883–1983. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990.
  • Carl Abbott. "Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century." Western Historical Quarterly 23 (1992): 293-322.
  • Harvey, Thomas. "Portland, Oregon: Regional City in a Global Economy." Urban Geography 17 (1996): 95-114.
  • William Toll. "Permanent Settlement: Japanese Families in Portland, 1920." Western Historical Quarterly 28 (1997): 19-44.
  • William Toll. "Black Families and Migration to a Multiracial Society: Portland, Oregon, 1900–1924." Journal of American Ethnic History 17 (1998): 38-70.
  • Barker, Neil. "Portland's Works Progress Administration." Oregon Historical Quarterly 101 (2000): 414-41.

Published in the 21st century

  • Abbott, Carl (2001). Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1779-9.
  • Carl Abbott. "Portland: Civic Culture and Civic Opportunity." Oregon Historical Quarterly 102 (2001): 6-21.
  • Pearson, Rudy. "’A Menace to the Neighborhood’: Housing and African Americans in Portland, 1941–1945." Oregon Historical Quarterly 102 (2001): 158-79.
  • Rosenthal, Nicholas G. "Repositioning Indianness: Native American Organizations in Portland, Oregon, 1959–1975." Pacific Historical Review 71 (2002): 415-38.
  • Lansing, Jewel (2003). Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851–2001. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. ISBN 0-87071-559-3.
  • Palahniuk, Chuck (2003). Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon. New York: Crown Journeys. ISBN 1-4000-4783-8.
  • Johnston, Robert. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
  • William Toll, ed. (2003). "Commerce, Climate, & Community: A History of Portland & Its People". Oregon History Project. Oregon Historical Society.
  • Thompson, Richard (2006). Portland's Streetcars. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-3115-4.
  • Wood Wortman, Sharon; Wortman, Ed (2006). The Portland Bridge Book (3rd ed.). Urban Adventure Press. ISBN 0-9787365-1-6.
  • Mike Lewyn (2007), Debunking Cato: Why Portland Works Better Than the Analysis of Its Chief Neo-Libertarian Critic, Chicago: Congress for the New Urbanism, archived from the original on 2014-02-22
  • Abbott, Carl (2011). Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87071-613-3.; scholarly history

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