Portland's Multnomah Village

by Nanci Hamilton

Book Overview

Once rolling countryside and bucolic dairy farmland, the area that became Multnomah Village was transformed when the Oregon Electric railroad line connecting Portland to Salem placed a station here in 1908 and brought Multnomah within 15 minutes of Portland's downtown core. The electric train opened the way for individual families to build the charming homes of their dreams. Over the next 20 years, as the rise of the automobile transformed transportation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738548901
• ISBN13: 9780738548906
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.2"