Vanport, sometimes referred to as Vanport City or Kaiserville, was a city of wartime public housing in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, between...

into one of Oregon's most diverse trades. The establishment of Vanport coincided with an unprecedented influx of African-Americans into Oregon, attracted...

Vanport may refer to: Locations Vanport, Oregon Vanport Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania Companies Vanport Manufacturing, a logging company This...

additional 100,000 people lived and/or worked in nearby cities such as Vanport, Oregon City, and Troutdale. The war jobs attracted large numbers of African-Americans...

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The 1948 Columbia River flood (or Vanport Flood) was a regional flood that occurred in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. Large portions...

line. With an initial payroll of 38,000 workers, the nearby city of Vanport, Oregon was constructed to house the workforce that was introduced to the area...

Interstate Bridge's support piers and completely destroyed nearby Vanport, Oregon. Construction of The Dalles Dam and destruction of Celilo Falls are...

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population of Vanport City, Oregon, which was also built by Henry J. Kaiser to house the workers of the three area shipyards. The former site of Oregon Shipbuilding...

Vanport Mosaic Festival is an annual summer festival begun in 2016 commemorating the history of Vanport, Oregon's then second-largest city, which was...

city. Vanport, built north of Portland in 1943 to house workers for Kaiser Shipyards, was destroyed by a flood five years later. In 1968, the Oregon Legislative...

well-known neighborhoods, while the neighboring "shipyard city" of Vanport, Oregon, would be destroyed by the Memorial Day flood of 1948.[citation needed]...

specific neighborhoods, such as the Albina district and Vanport. The May 1948 flood which destroyed Vanport eliminated the only integrated neighborhood, and...

dreaming, get out the way, a poetic reference to the historic flood in Vanport, Oregon (a site where the Dead would play in 1995). Though lyrically the songs...

Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. Archived from the original on March 14, 2020. Friedman 1990, p. 181. Abbott, Carl. "Vanport". Oregon Encyclopedia. Friedman...

transported workers to the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California Vanport, Oregon Peck, Merton J. & Scherer, Frederic M. The Weapons Acquisition Process:...

The history of Oregon, a U.S. state, may be considered in five eras: geologic history, inhabitation by native peoples, early exploration by Europeans (primarily...

serving, Epler became a veterans' counselor in Oregon's General Extension Division in Portland. The Vanport Extension Center was conceived by Epler in order...

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S. state of Oregon. There are seven Native American reservations in Oregon that belong to seven of the nine federally recognized Oregon tribes: Burns...

The Vanport Library served the short-lived community of Vanport, Oregon from August 3, 1943 until the city was flooded in 1948. It had 2,500 books upon...

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according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. In May 1948 the residents of Vanport, including its sizeable black population totalling over 6,300, would soon...

Oregon Country was a large region of the Pacific Northwest of North America that was subject to a long dispute between the United Kingdom and the United...

Vanport was constructed to the north of this section between the city limits and the Columbia River. It grew to be the second-largest city in Oregon,...

a maintenance worker to lay bricks. After the Vanport flood in May 1948, Grant was home to the Vanport Extension Center (now Portland State University)...

development, called Vanport, was built in outer North Portland to house shipyard workers. The 1948 Columbia River flood destroyed Vanport and displaced over...

Oregon. It is part of the Delta Park complex on the former site of Vanport, just south of the Columbia River. It lies west of the Delta Park/Vanport light...

Casimir. May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes; 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless...