Maplewood Station
By Tim Lyman · June 9, 2015 The Maplewood story begins with the Niebur family’s donation land grant of 320 acres filed in May of 1873. They located their homestead in the present day April...
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Multnomah Transit Company
By Tim Lyman · August 7, 2015 Today’s photo also comes from a recent donation by Jean Mangrum. The photos come from Jean’s grandmother’s photo album. Jean’s grandparents moved to Multnomah in the late 1920s....
When it Really Snowed in SW Portland
By Tim Lyman · Published April 6, 2015 · Updated April 6, 2015 The Winter of 1922-23 As one of our warmest winters has its last gasp of snow on Mount Hood, we bring you some photos of...
Fulton Park Dairy House
By Tim Lyman · Published March 24, 2015 · Updated April 6, 2015 Note: An earlier version of this post erroneously placed this house near the main dairy facilities, it was located where the Wilson High swimming...
Do you Know These Kids?
By Tim Lyman · December 1, 2014 Are you in this picture, or do you know someone who is? This picture was taken (we think) in the Multnomah Drug Store or Ed’s Camera Corner about 1960....
Then and Now – Annie Bloom’s
By Tim Lyman · Published October 16, 2014 · Updated October 27, 2014 This summer we did a series of “Then and Now” posters for Multnomah businesses. The posters features a vintage image of the building housing the...
Was This Your Fort?
By Tim Lyman – July 29, 2014 We don’t know the date of this photo, our source is a negative copied from the original photo. Judging by the boy’s shoes, it’s probably the 1920s...
Active Archivists!
By Jennifer Devlin The Multnomah Historical Association’s team of archivists recently put in over 220 volunteer hours moving our collections from the Neighborhood House Building to a new site on Barbur Boulevard. The volunteers inventoried, sorted,...
Multnomah School Cornerstone
By Tim Lyman – Published April 24, 2014 With the coming of the Oregon Electric Railway in 1908, people began realizing the area’s potential as a future center for the southwest area. Multnomah Children...
Craig’s Auto Court
By Tim Lyman – Published March 13, 2014 Craig’s Auto Court operated at 9449 SW Barbur Boulevard from 1937 to 1943, when it became the Ara Vista Motel. A Wendy’s occupies the site today....
Multnomah Bank
By Tim Lyman – Published March 5, 2014 After the Multnomah Commercial & Savings Bank closed in December 1934 the merchants and people in this area had to either go to Beaverton or Tigard...
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