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Timeline of Portland, Oregon

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

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19th century

  • 1845 – Portland, named after Portland, Maine, was founded by two real-estate men from New England.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1850 – The Oregonian newspaper founded.{{cite web |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=Oregon&county=&city=Portland&terms=&frequency=&language=ðnicity=&labor=&material_type=&lccn=&rows=50&sort=date |title=US Newspaper Directory |location=Washington, D.C. |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=November 4, 2013 }}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1851
  • Portland incorporated.{{cite web |url=http://www.portlandonline.com/auditor/index.cfm?a=284506&c=51811 |title=Portland Historical Timeline |publisher=City of Portland |author=Auditor's Office |access-date=November 4, 2013 |year=2000 }}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 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.{{sfn|Purdy|1947}}
  • 1864 – Library Association of Portland founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~davpro/databases/index.html |title=American Libraries before 1876 |author= Davies Project |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=November 4, 2013 }}
  • 1866 – Oregon Herald newspaper begins publication.
  • 1868 – Population: 6,717.{{sfn|Reid|1879}}
  • 1869 – Lincoln High School opened as Portland High School.
  • 1871 – City Park established.
  • 1872 – Portland Street Railway horsecars begin operating.
  • 1873 - Fire.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1875 – Good Samaritan Hospital founded.
  • 1876 – University of Oregon established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1880 – Willamette University College of Medicine relocates to Portland.
  • Portland Chamber of Commerce founded.
  • 1881 – Unsightly beggar ordinance effected.{{cite book|author= Susan M. Schweik |title=The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxAWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA291 |year=2010|publisher=New York University Press|isbn=978-0-8147-8361-0}}
  • 1882 – River View Cemetery established.
  • 1883
  • Northern Pacific Railway begins operating.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • Population: 20,000 (approx).{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1885 – Web-Foot Cook Book published.{{cite journal |title= Much Depends on Dinner: Pacific Northwest Foodways, 1843–1900 |author= Jacqueline Williams |journal= Pacific Northwest Quarterly |volume= 90 |issue= 2 |pages= 68–76 |year= 1999 |jstor= 40492465 }}[https://archive.org/stream/webfootcookbook00port#page/n3/mode/2up]{{Relevance inline|date=May 2015}}
  • 1886 – Oregon Staats Zeitung newspaper begins publication.{{Citation |publisher = Palmer & Rey |location = San Francisco |title = Pacific States Newspaper Directory |date = 1894 |edition=6th |oclc = 35801625 |chapter=Oregon: Multnomah |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/pacificstatesnew00palm#page/97/mode/1up }}
  • 1887 – First Morrison Bridge, the first bridge across the Willamette River in Portland (and predecessor of the current Morrison Bridge), opens.{{sfn|Wortman|2006|p=53}}
  • 1888 – Portland Zoo established.
  • 1890
  • Portland Hotel in business.
  • Population: 46,385.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1891
  • The first Madison Street Bridge (predecessor of the Hawthorne Bridge) opens
  • Albina and East Portland become part of city.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • Multnomah Athletic Club founded

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20th century

=1900s–1940s=

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=1950s–1990s=

21st century

See also

References

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Bibliography

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=Published in the 19th century=

  • {{Citation |publisher = A. Gensoul |location = San Francisco |editor = G. Owens |title =General directory and business guide of the principal towns in the upper country |date = 1866 |chapter=Portland, Oregon |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/generaldirector00owen#page/62/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation

|title = Oregon business directory and state gazetteer

|date = 1873

|publisher = S.J. McCormick |chapter=Multnomah County: Portland |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/oregonbusinessdi00murp#page/288/mode/2up |editor=John Mortimer Murphy

}}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = D.H. Stearns & Co. |location = Portland, Or |author = William Reid |title = Progress of Oregon and Portland from 1868 to 1878

|date = 1879

| ref = {{harvid|Reid|1879}}

|ol = 25160344M }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = D. Mason & Co. |location = Syracuse, N.Y |author = Harvey Whitefield Scott |author-link = Harvey W. Scott|title = History of Portland, Oregon |date = 1890 |ol = 23304856M }}

=Published in the 20th century=

==1900s–1960s==

  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Portland (Oregon) |volume= 22 | page = 120 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation

|publisher = S.J. Clarke Pub. Co. |location = Chicago |title = Portland, Oregon, its history and builders |date = 1911

|oclc = 1183569

|ol = 6568578M }}

  • [https://archive.org/stream/portlandoregonit02gast#page/n7/mode/2up v.2], [https://archive.org/stream/portlandoregonit03gast#page/n5/mode/2up v.3]
  • Sayer, James J. "Our City Councils. II. Portland—the Commission Plan." National Municipal Review 13 (1924): 502-7.
  • {{Citation

|publisher = Binfords & Mort |location = Portland, Oregon |title = Rose City of the World: Portland, Oregon |author = Ruby Fay Purdy

|date = 1947

|oclc = 2534603

| ref = {{harvid|Purdy|1947}}

|ol = 6511508M }}

  • {{cite book

|title=Oregon: End of the Trail |series=American Guide Series |author = Federal Writers' Project |location=Portland |publisher= Binfords & Mort

|year=1951

|chapter= Portland |hdl=2027/mdp.39015010544792 |author-link=Federal Writers' Project }}

  • Maddux, Percy. City on the Willamette: The Story of Portland, Oregon. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1952.
  • {{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:polksportlandcity1957porich/Polk's_Portland_city_directory |title = Polk's Portland City Directory |date = 1957 |publisher = R.L. Polk & Company |location=Seattle |ol = 22890124M }}
  • [https://archive.org/stream/polksportlandcity1959rich#page/n3/mode/2up 1959 ed.]
  • [https://archive.org/stream/polksportlandcity1962rich#page/n5/mode/2up 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.
  • {{Cite book |first=E. Kimbark |last=MacColl |title=The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1885 to 1915 |location=Portland, Oregon |publisher=Georgian Press |year=1976 |oclc=2645815 }}
  • {{Cite book |first=E. Kimbark |last=MacColl |title=The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1915 to 1950 |location=Portland, Oregon |publisher=Georgian Press |year=1979 |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=

  • {{Cite book |first=Carl |last=Abbott |title=Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest |location=Philadelphia |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2001 |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.
  • {{Cite book |first=Jewel |last=Lansing |author-link=Jewel Lansing |title=Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851–2001 |location=Corvallis |publisher=Oregon State University Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-87071-559-3 }}
  • {{Cite book |author-link=Chuck Palahniuk |first=Chuck |last=Palahniuk |title=Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon |year=2003 |publisher=Crown Journeys |location=New York |isbn=1-4000-4783-8 |title-link=Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon }}
  • Johnston, Robert. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
  • {{cite web |title=Commerce, Climate, & Community: A History of Portland & Its People |editor=William Toll |work=Oregon History Project |publisher=Oregon Historical Society |year=2003 |url=http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/narratives/index.cfm?nar_ID=0008DCB1-5F8A-1EA5-B96080B05272006C

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  • {{cite book

|last=Thompson|first=Richard|title=Portland's Streetcars

|year=2006

|location=Charleston, South Carolina|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=0-7385-3115-4

}}

  • {{cite book

| last= Wood Wortman | first= Sharon |author2=Wortman, Ed | title = The Portland Bridge Book | publisher = Urban Adventure Press

| year = 2006

| isbn= 0-9787365-1-6

| ref = {{harvid|Wortman|2006}}

| edition= 3rd }}

  • {{citation |title=Debunking Cato: Why Portland Works Better Than the Analysis of Its Chief Neo-Libertarian Critic |author=Mike Lewyn |year=2007 |url=http://www.cnu.org/taxonomy/term/1216 |publisher=Congress for the New Urbanism |location=Chicago |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222165433/http://www.cnu.org/taxonomy/term/1216 |archive-date=2014-02-22 }}
  • {{Cite book |first=Carl |last=Abbott |title=Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People |year=2011 |publisher=Oregon State University Press |location=Corvallis |isbn=978-0-87071-613-3 }}; scholarly history

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  • Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?utf8=✓&page_size=100&q=portland+oregon Items related to Portland], various dates.
  • {{citation |url= http://www.newgeography.com/category/blog-topics/portland |work= New Geography (blog) |title=Portland |editor=Joel Kotkin |editor-link=Joel Kotkin }}

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