> 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/ > > >

> > 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 > There never was a Vancouver City, OR. She is using that name to describe Vanport. This can be explained by the naming of Vanport instead of Vancouver-Portland City. It was Kaiser's son's project, was Oregon's second l;argest city, and it washed away in one Sunday morning. jim