Basic HTML Version
8
TIMES FACT BOOK
November 22, 2012
tlers include the Hall Family
from Kentucky, the Denneys,
who lived near Scholls Ferry
Road and Hall Blvd., and Orin
S. Allen, from western New
York. In the late 1940s, Law-
rence Hall bought 640 acres of
Beaverdam and built a gristmill
with his brother near what is
nowWalker Road. After that
first land claim, Thomas Den-
ney followed in 1848, building
the area’s first sawmill. In 1860,
a toll plank road was complet-
ed over a trail now known as
the commercialized, congested
Canyon Road.
■
STILL ON TRACK
— In the
what goes around, comes
around department ... The Or-
egon Electric Railway, con-
structed in 1905 to link central
Portland with the then-outpost
of Garden Home, was a popu-
lar transportation option that
serves as a prescient proto-
type of modern-day streetcars
and light-rail systems that
weave an ever-widening web
through the metro area. Trav-
eling along what is now Mult-
nomah Boulevard between
Oleson Road to Allen Boule-
vard at 92nd Avenue, the elec-
tric train’s tracks branched at
Garden Home on routes west
to Forest Grove and south to
Salem. By 1922, 65 electric
trains hummed through the
Westside communities, one ev-
ery 20 minutes. Following a de-
cline, likely because of that
evil gas car contraption, pas-
senger service was pulled in
1933. By 1941, the tracks were
abandoned to make way for
vehicular roads.
■
SILENT LEGACY
—Anyone
remember watching silent pic-
tures from the 1920s such as
“Crashing Courage,” “Flames
of Passion,” “Scars of Hate,”
“The Frame-Up,” or “The Vow
of Vengeance”? If you don’t, it
From Page 7
Veterans Day
supporters
check out the
memorial at
Beaverton’s
Veterans
Memorial
Park.
TIMES FILE
PHOTO: JONATHAN
HOUSE
Continued on Page 10
COLLIERARBOR.COM
503-722-7267
s
/RGANIC
,AWN AND 3OIL #ARE
s 3OIL (EALTH #ARE WITH
#OMPOST 4EA AND
/RGANIC &ERTILIZER
s /RGANIC 4REATMENTS
FOR 0ESTS AND "LIGHTS
s #ERTI
f
IED /REGON
%CO"IZ ,ANDSCAPE
3ERVICES
'ET 2ESULTS WITH
3USTAINABLE 3OLUTIONS
Our experts can make your landscape thrive!
Contact us for a free estimate today.
328796.111512 FB
341814.111512 FB
Serving buyers and sellers with integrity & expertise
in today’s changing market. Combining high tech with
high touch to always keep your best interests at heart.
5800 Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, OR 97035
RE/MAX Equity Group, Inc.
Multi-Million Dollar Producer
503-502-5227 direct
503-495-5300 fax
lindaheinrichs@remax.net