Multnomah Crossing
By Tim Lyman – Published March 14, 2013 Capitol Highway crossing the Oregon Electric Railway tracks. Capitol Highway opened October 22, 1916, but the tracks of the Oregon Electric Railroad (today’s Multnomah Boulevard) remained...
Category: 2013 Archives
Pictures of… ?
By Tim Lyman – February 20, 2013 *most of this article is inaccessible from the previous site. We have included what we could salvage. One of the biggest issues historians face when it comes...
Second Maplewood School
By Tim Lyman – Published February 4, 2013 *Missing photos from original article The second Maplewood School was built during the winter of 1913-1914, and opened to 101 students in the fall of 1914....
7783 SW Capitol Highway
By Tim Lyman – Published February 2, 2013 *missing photos from previous site’s post *Missing Photo – Maid o’Clover Ice Cream ca. 1920.* A log cabin is the first known structure on this site....
Rosie the… Mailman?
By Tim Lyman – February 1, 2013 We’ve all heard how women took up factory jobs during World War II to fill positions left vacant by men serving overseas, but rarely do we hear...
Sunday Oregonian, August 4, 1912
By Tim Lyman – Published January 28, 2013 *missing photos from previous site article When Improvements which are now under way on the Slavin and Taylor’s Ferry roads are .completed, those two highways, extending-...