1930.Here is a very interesting map detailing how the City of Portland grew by annexations, broken down over decades from the city's inception:
Clicky here to embiggen. The Portland that our parents and grandparents knew was pretty much that area in yellow, orange, and red in the middle. Growth continued but slowed during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (the smaller bits round that hot central area) then really started galloping to the north and east mostly as the area between Portland and Gresham got gobbled up in a mere 10-year span (1985-1995, approximately) and the floodplain of the Columbia at about the same time.
The reddest part there, in the middle covering Old Town and today's Downtown district approximates, unless I am very much mistaken, the old Donation Land Claims of Captain Couch (north of Ankeny Street) and the Lovejoy/Pettygrove partnership (south of Ankeny Street)
The small red-orange quadrilateral touching the river in today's Lloyd district might approximate the old city of Albina: the part of the great orange area south of today's Banfield Freeway approximate the former City of East Portland.
You can get your own PDF copy of this map by going to the Bureau of Planning and Sustainable Development's annexations web page here and looking for the link that downloads the document. It's at the bottom of the third paragraph, and reads historical map of large annexations to the City of Portland (or you can just click that link there–dialup users warning; it's 2.8 MB)
Technorati Tags: Portland History, Portland Growth, Portland Annexations, East Portland, Albina
Clicky here to embiggen. The Portland that our parents and grandparents knew was pretty much that area in yellow, orange, and red in the middle. Growth continued but slowed during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (the smaller bits round that hot central area) then really started galloping to the north and east mostly as the area between Portland and Gresham got gobbled up in a mere 10-year span (1985-1995, approximately) and the floodplain of the Columbia at about the same time.
The reddest part there, in the middle covering Old Town and today's Downtown district approximates, unless I am very much mistaken, the old Donation Land Claims of Captain Couch (north of Ankeny Street) and the Lovejoy/Pettygrove partnership (south of Ankeny Street)
The small red-orange quadrilateral touching the river in today's Lloyd district might approximate the old city of Albina: the part of the great orange area south of today's Banfield Freeway approximate the former City of East Portland.
You can get your own PDF copy of this map by going to the Bureau of Planning and Sustainable Development's annexations web page here and looking for the link that downloads the document. It's at the bottom of the third paragraph, and reads historical map of large annexations to the City of Portland (or you can just click that link there–dialup users warning; it's 2.8 MB)
Technorati Tags: Portland History, Portland Growth, Portland Annexations, East Portland, Albina
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