{"id":205,"date":"2009-05-26T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:48:48","slug":"portland-street-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/portland-street-names.html","title":{"rendered":"Portland, Oregon Street Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder who the streets in your town were named for?<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Oregonian<\/a> The Oregonian<\/em> (Portland, OR) newspaper ran a regular series giving the history of the names of the streets in Portland, Oregon. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Read these street histories in <\/span>GenealogyBank.com<\/span><\/a> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tip: Find these articles quickly by going to the special site we’ve created for searching just the <\/span>Oregonian<\/em> <\/span><\/a>newspaper 1861-1922<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Put “Portland Street Names” in the other search terms box and all of the articles in this series will be displayed.
\n<\/strong><\/span>
\nClick on these links to see a few examples from the series.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Brazee Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 18 Nov 1921<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong>
\nBurnside Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 5 Oct 1921<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong>
\nChapman Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 14 Nov 1921<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong>
\nCorbett Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 15 Nov 1921<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong>
\nCouch Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 6 Oct 1921<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong>
\nCurry Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 26 Nov 1921<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong>
\nEverett Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 14 Oct 1921<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong>
\nFailing Street. Oregonian. 9 Nov 1921<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong>
\nIrving Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 15 Oct 1921<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong>
\nKearney Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 19 Oct 1921<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong>
\nMorrison Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 4 Nov 1921<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong>
\nOatman Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 11 Nov 1921<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong>
\nQuimby Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 24 Oct 1921<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong>
\nRaleigh Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 25 Oct 1921<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong>
\nSalmon Street<\/span>. Oregonian<\/em>. 5 Nov 1921<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span> <\/strong>
\nSavier Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 27 Oct 1921<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span>
\nStrowbridge Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 10 Nov 1921<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>
\nTerwilliger Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 19 Nov 1921<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span>
\nThurman Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 28 Oct 1921<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>
\nUpshur Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 2 Nov 1921<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>
\nVaughn Street. Oregonian<\/em>. 29 Oct 1921<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>
\nWhiteaker Street. Oregonian. 25 Nov 1921<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder who the streets in your town were named for? The Oregonian (Portland, OR) newspaper ran a regular series giving the history of the names of the streets in Portland, Oregon. Read these street histories in GenealogyBank.com Tip: Find these articles quickly by going to the special site we’ve created for searching just the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[705,1129,1661,2191,1674,1829,1890,707,2539,443,1874,1038,27,1929,1075,2186,1050,1224,706,462],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-colonial-america","tag-family","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-history","tag-id","tag-in","tag-irving","tag-john-sampson-bobo","tag-kearney","tag-ma","tag-ms","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-or","tag-oregon","tag-oregonian","tag-portland","tag-raleigh","tag-thaddeus-mason","tag-tip"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100208,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/100208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}