Oregon
adopts Initiative and Referendum, leading other states in this.
1905-1906
Early
revivals in Portland.
June
20, 1907
First
Rose Festival.
1910
Oregon
completes political system to elect politicans by popular vote, support
recall, etc. (initiative and referendum procedures were adopted in
1902). Men continued to be as corruptible as ever, and the state still
had devoted and bungling servants. Portland population at 207,314.
This first decade growth was stimulated by Alaskan gold rush, Lewis
and Clark Centennial Exposition, and development of industry and commerce
along waterways..
September
17, 1911
Reed
College opens.
January,
1912
First
train in Portland (from Bend).
1913
Carroll
Public Market opens along Yamhill.
January
1, 1916
Prohibition
of alcohol.
January
14, 1917
Interstate
bridge dedicated.
May
5, 1918
Crown
Point Vista House dedicated.
October
6, 1918
Hinson
Memorial Baptist Church has first service in SE Portland.
1919
Oregon
becomes first state with gasoline tax.
1920
John
G. Lake Revival in Portland with healings.
January
10, 1922
McMinnville
College is changed to Linfield.
July
12, 1922
Senator
Mark O. Hatfield born.
March
22, 1922
First
radio station in Portland opened - KGW.
1924
Indian
became a citizen with Indian Citizenship Act.
December
31, 1924
First
broadcast in Portland of a church service: KGW broadcasts from 1st
Presbyterian Church.December 15, 1925 Sellwood bridge completed.
1926
Residence
restriction on Negros was repealed. May 28, 1926 Burnside Bridge opened.
1927
Franchise
restriction for negros and Chinese repealed.1929 Sea wall built. Area
loses contact with river as a result.
1930
The
Depression. Oregon's major industry, forest products, suffered from
lack of national and international markets. The second leading industry,
agriculture, also suffered. Tourism also suffered.
August
14, 1933
Tillamook
burn destroys 240,000 acres of timber.
1934
Sea
Wall Market constructed, ending street market and street life in area.
June
6, 1935
First
"City of Portland" train arrives in Portland from Chicago.
1941
- 1946
World
War II.
Start
of construction of Vanport and local shipbuilding is accelerated.
This was one of the most successful wartime housing construction projects
in history, proving that government, local people, and industry could
work together to meet housing, vocational, and community needs. The
leaders represented the best of individualistic America. Other
housing projects in the country could not duplicate this success.
On the counter side, however, it was heavily regulated by the government:
government supported child care and schools, rules and regulations,
and even free custodial and heat in churches.
1946
Indian
Claims Commission organized to improve rights of Indians.
May
30, 1948
Vanport
flood destroyed homes of most of the blacks in the city, forcing them
to move into present-day north and northeast Portland. The flood left
60,000 homeless and did $75,000,000 damage.
January
1, 1949
First woman mayor in Portland: Dorothy McCullough Lee.
April
13, 1949
Earthquake
in northern Oregon.
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