jim etal: Thank you again for all the data on Vanport City as it adds to my family history notes in regards to some of my mom's life. Happy Trails, Joan *_~ > >A little more info on VANPORT or VANPORT CITY. The Oregon Book of > >Information A to Z, 1st Edition 1998 by Connie Hopkins Battaile states: > > > >Vanport - A city located on a floodplain between Portland & Columbia River > >1942-1948. Temporary housing for shipyard workers WWII. It was largest > >housing project ever built in US at the time. 40,000 people at end of 1943. > >2nd largest city in Oregon. Vanport College later developed into Portland > >State University. At 4:17 PM May 30, 1948 the river breached the railroad > >dike at the West end. 18,000 population, 15 killed. > > > >I couldn't find a copy of "Oregon Geographic Names" 6th edition 1992 by > >Lewis McArthur ISBN 0875952372 > > There is a paragraph in the 1982 Fifth edition, no really new > information, but it does cite a couple of articles in the Oregonian > newspaper August 12th and 16th, 1943, about the project. > > jim >