This is a nifty map of Portland from the very early days. East Portland was a separate city until 1891 when Portland and East Portland consolidated.
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October 26, 2010 at 7:44 am
I reckon the “Lunatic Asylum” is the approximate location of Ladd Addition today. [Insert cheap joke here]d
October 26, 2010 at 10:28 am
Heh. McAdam Road. Is this misspelled or did the name simply change over time?
October 26, 2010 at 10:35 am
In 3D: http://goo.gl/u3uW
October 26, 2010 at 3:10 pm
The orientation is interesting. Don’t see many (if any?) maps with West at the top these days…
October 27, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Hmmm, “South St”, just south of Jackson between 7th and 10th. That area seems to have been obliterated by the I-405 construction, but I wonder if anybody remembers whether the street existed until the freeway?
Also, McAdam/MacAdam, I wouldn’t be surprised if that was one of those spellings that could go either way back then.
October 28, 2010 at 6:17 am
You have a point Tad, but I was always under the assumption that “macadam” referred to the original construction style of the road….which, according to wikipedia is named for its Scottish inventor, John Loudon…McAdam.
October 28, 2010 at 12:02 pm
I’d always heard the same. Although waaay back in the midsts of time it was apparently referred to as the White House road, after some kind of public house down that way.
April 7, 2013 at 1:23 am
In regards to the Lunatic Asylum grounds located near 12th and Hawthorne: James C. Hawthorne became head of the county hospital in 1858 and subsequently founded the first mental hospital in the territory. He set up a temporary shop down on Taylor and 3rd (possibly where the Lippman Co is now?) until construction of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane was completed in 1862. The hospital was in operation for just over 20 years, and the road came to be known as Asylum St. In 1883, 2 years after Hawthorne’s death, the state moved patients to its new facility in Salem, and in 1888, the street was renamed in Hawthorne’s honor.