Welcome to the Multnomah Historical Association

In preparation for Multnomah Days celebration 2025, we have brought the Multnomah Historical Association website back to life with a new domain and web hosting service but all the same great content that the old website had to offer. To kick it off see a post from 2015 with a short blurb about the history of Multnomah Days and some photos from celebrations past. Join us this year for Multnomah Days 2025, on August 16 and come stop by our booth and say hi!

Multnomah Days

By Tim Lyman – August 11, 2015

The annual Multnomah Days celebration began in the 1920s when Multnomah merchants decided to have an annual city-wide sale. Then, it was just a sale, the big annual parade and celebrations were on Independence Day. In the 1950s the event was renamed Chief Multnomah Days, a parade and celebrations were added. Then, as now, the Pet Parade was a big part of the celebration. As Multnomah went into decline in the 1970s, the celebration stopped, but was revived in the 1980s.