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Vanport construction began in August 1942 to house the workers at the wartime Kaiser Shipyards in Portland and Vancouver, Washington.Vanport—a portmanteau of "Vancouver" and "Portland"—was home to 40,000 people, about 40 percent of them African-American, making it Oregon's second-largest city at the time, and the largest public housing project in the nation.
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This is a list of newspapers published by Digital First Media, the successor to 21st Century Media.. The company owns daily and weekly newspapers, and other print media properties and newspaper-affiliated local Websites in the U.S. states of Connecticut, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, organized in six geographic "clusters": [1]
Vanport Mosaic Festival is an annual summer festival begun in 2016 commemorating the history of Vanport, Oregon's then second-largest city, which was destroyed by the 1948 Columbia River flood, and the Fair Housing Act. It is described by its organizers as an act of "memory activism".
(What's Cooking is a twice-a-month look at what's new in the regional dining & drinks scenes.) Sheetz will build a second store along University Boulevard in Moon Township.
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Vanport's 1948 flood may be 3rd or 4th for high water. There is a marked gauge at the Water Resources Education Center in Vancouver Washington that could help settle the matter. Tsarevna ( talk ) 08:54, 9 August 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]
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 of the Columbia River watershed were impacted, including the Portland area , Eastern Washington , northeastern Oregon , Idaho Panhandle , northwestern Montana , and southeastern British ...