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    1. RE: [ORMULTNO-L] City Directories
    2. Julie Kidd
    3. >One thing to watch out for--prior to 1933 street addresses in Portland were "20" to a block. In 1933, they were changed to "100" per block. I don't know about Sellwood in particular, though. Sellwood was incorporated into Portland in 1893, and whether it used the same scheme as the rest of Portland, I couldn't tell you.< I'm not sure about the street numbering in Sellwood before it was incorporated into Portland - early city directory (pre-1900) entries in the Portland section for folks who lived in the suburban towns tend only to indicate "Sellwood" or "Fulton" rather than giving a precise location. Or in the towns' sections, they indicated only "east side of Tacoma between 13th & 14th" or "the northwest corner at 13th". I do know that at the incorporations of 1891 and 1893 which led to the first "great renaming" of Portland's streets, that the numbered streets in Sellwood were changed to coordinate with those of East Portland, so they would run continuous north to south. Julie JulieKidd@compuserve.com + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + NGS Conference, 16-19 May 2001, Portland, Oregon. For information on the conference, go to: http://www.gfo.org/ngs2001/index.htm

    09/01/2000 06:54:21