Oh look i just found something on it at www.google.com = http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/locations/northwest/newsroom/history.html 1942: Thousands of shipyard workers arrive from all across the nation, boosting the Portland/Vancouver-area population and broadening its diversity. Many of them live in Oregon's new Vanport City. President Roosevelt attends launch of the first Liberty ship, built in just 10 days. Health care partnership with Dr. Garfield extended to provide care for shipyard workers and their families. > That was more than likely Vanport. > > Sherri > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "crystalwoman" <crystalwoman@montana.com> > To: <OREGON-TRAIL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:59 AM > Subject: Re: May 30, 1948 Vanport Flood Remembered > > > > > Had you ever heard of Vancouver City, OR? My mother (16 y.o.) early mid > > > 1940's worked in a ship yard built there by Kaiser with her father and > > they > > > lived in project homes while doing that. She hated it but her father > made > > > her go with him. She welded in pipes and small areas on the ships being > > > built. > > > > > > She said the city was flooded away at one time after she had left > > > there......was that same time as the flood of Vanport City? > > > > > > Thanks, Joan in rural MT > > > > > Also, visit my 4 personal home pages on spirituality and genealogy: > > > http://www.geocities.com/crystalwoman_2000/roots.html > > > crystalwoman@montana.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "cchouk" <cchouk@cox.net> > > > To: <OREGON-TRAIL-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:39 AM > > > Subject: May 30, 1948 Vanport Flood Remembered > > > > > > > > > > Listers: > > > > > > > > The Vanport Flood washed away Vanport City, the largest public housing > > > > project ever built in the United States, at 4:05 p.m. on May 30, 1948, > > > when > > > > the dike holding back the Columbia River gave way. The city, at one > time > > > > responsible for housing nearly 50,000 people after construction was > > > > completed > > > > in 1943, was underwater by nightfall. Fifteen people died in the > flood. > > > > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/vanport/ > > > > > > > > > > > > Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret., AG6I > > > > PO Box 530833 > > > > San Diego CA 92153 > > > > res San Diego CA 92154-3654 > > > > NEW EMAIL ADDRESS mailto:cchouk@cox.net > > > > ANDERSON-BLAKELY-EGGERS-FORD-HOUK-KIMSEY-MONTGOMERY-RULAFORD-SIMPSON > > > > Searchable GEDCOM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk > > > > See also: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~donhouk > > > > My Web pages menu: http://members.cox.net/cchouk/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >