[or-roots] old Portland area addresses

[EugeneMelvin.roots at comcast.net]

About 1930/31 Portland changed the street names.  The third floor of the main library has a reference book that show the changes.

Eugene

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> Jack, can't say about woodlawn, and since my source of info is an aerial 
> photo, but there is a house on the corner that Yahoo and USA Photo maps say 
> is 607 Liberty, it is a BIG house seems to take up most of the lot, my son 
> thinks it looks like and older house. 
> 
> You really had me going with the Woodlawn place name, finally googled it and 
> plugged in the zip code and lo and behold, the greats were real 
> adventuresome, they moved a whole ten Blocks there! 
> 
> No clues about the house on the corner, there except if had a flat or nearly 
> flat roof, and was much smaller. 
> 
> Can't come up with a location for 7 1/2 Union, or Meachan's corner, as a 
> matter of fact Yahoo doesn't have a clue about Meachan's Corner, nor does 
> Google?? 
> 
> Admittedly looking down on the roof doesn't tell you much, but you might be 
> able to call the county records folks to find out how old the houses are, 
> that is if they have a clue from deeds taxes etc and are willing to look. 
> 
> Les C 
> 
> 
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> Subject: [or-roots] old Portland area addresses 
> 
> 
> Hi List, 
> 
> My wife's great grandparents, Garrisson P. Nickell and Laura A. (Poston) 
> Nickell and their family, lived in and about Portland from about 1880 after 
> leaving their homestead in Eugene. They lived at the following addresses: 
> 
> 1. Before 1916: Lived at 606 NE Junior at 15th St in Woodlawn, OR 
> 2. Meachan's Corner 
> 3. From about 1915 lived at 607 Liberty St in Portland, OR 
> & 7 1/2 Union St. in Portland, OR 
> 
> I wonder if any of these old structures are still around? 
> 
> Jack Ciaccia 
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