Disorganized! EDITING IN PROGRESS... August 2023. --JM
We aim to preserve and celebrate the history of our neck of the woods. We also intend to honor the nature of the land - it's waters, flora, and fauna.
We may get a product sooner if we can take what residents are willing to give us - and have independent articles on this page/site.
Please send historical facts, figures, dates, photos, and/or stories about any of the items on the list below to scoop@newcollinsview.blog
Partial stories or recollections are welcome as such.. those might stimulate others to fill in or correct facts, and so on. Tell a story!
Topics to be added
Yet to be organized into a whole.
How Native American populated, used this area.
Did Jesse Boone follow native trails?
Histories of
Boones Ferry Road
Taylors Ferry Road
Collins View land developer
What policy determined that the name of Collins View School
Cemeteries (RVC) Railroad magnate connection
Fulton Park development
Fulton-Cemeteries electric Trolley
Town of Fulton
Sellwood Ferries -- Caples
Riverboats
Iron foundary
furnace / smelter
charcoal
Iron Ore
pipe foundary
Greenwood Hills Cemetery
Portland Masonic Cemetery
G.A.R.
IOOF
Morning Star Graves
River View Natural Area history
logged in 1880's and 1950's
Cemetery surplus property, Undeveloped
Measure 37 claim
MTB
Natural Area
Tryon Creek St Park
How/When it was rescued from Development
Marshall Park
How/When it was rescued from Development
Collins View History
The Land
History of the Land pre-settlers.
History of the Land 1850-1880. Surveys? Platting? Donation Land Claims? Logging.
Streets and Roads.
Formation of Mulnomah County .. and what that may have meant for CV. (No zoning laws.)
The name Collins View? (We have some info.)
Where exactly were the City Limits in 1890? A map shows the line could have run east-west at about Lobelia, south of taylor's ferry!
Story of Annexation to city of Portland. What was the transition like?
Were early parts of Collins View considered vacation properties? (Folklore)
Businesses
What was it like at the big intersection in the early days? Businesses we assume.
Did you know that the Market of Choice building (Now Anytime Fitness) used to be a Feed Store? It later became Burlingame Grocery..
There was a greasy spoon lunch counter across the front, inside the windows.
We don't have ANY photos of the store during this era.
The Era of a gas stations on every corners.
Would be nice to have a map showing the development of the business district over time.
Or any info / stories etc. What all was here?
Terwilliger Center itself has had many different businesses.
Collins View grocery store, People voted there! CV Dance Hall.
Did you know that Lobelia was First Avenue? Terwilliger used to be Maple.
The great re-numbering and street re-naming project.
SIDEWALKS.
Not only were there undeveloped streets, there were no sidewalks... so there was a whole discussion in the 80's to get PDX bureau of planning to relax requirements for sidewalks on any new development. But still, we see expensive orphan sections of sidewalk we see around. It seems that whatever was relaxed has been re-tighted. ANYWAY, that in itself would be a good story to have correctly stated. AKA 'Case of Disappearing Sidewalk.'
See top of page for address of where to send any contributions you may have!
COLLINS VIEW TIMELINE
Here we compile the data, then generate a timeline.
The timeline will be divided into ~15 Decades, 1870-2020.
Each decade could begin with some 'longer events' - eg logging of RVNA in 1880's and 1950's.
Timeline entries would be of the form: date; title; sentence(s); optional photo(s).
Maybe the photos would be presented in a galley above or below the timeline.
— JM, Nov 2020
EARLY HISTORY
Native Americans. We want more info!!!
Part of Oregon Territory
Oregon's Provisional Government (1841-1849)
Territorial Government (1849-1859)
Statehood, Feb 14, 1859
Donation Land Claims. I have seen a map of them in the Portland Area.
https://historicoregoncity.org/2019/04/03/land-claims/
https://gfo.org/resources/indexes/pioneer/donation-land-claims.html
CEMETERIES
1882 - River View Cemetery
https://www.greenwoodhillscemetery.org/uploads/History_of_GHC_ColorPic.pdf
1882 - Greenwood Hill Cemetery
1882 - Grand Army of the Republic
1871 - Ahavai Shalom Cemetery
???? - Beth Israel Cemetery
SCHOOLS
Collins View School dedicated in 1937, closed in 1976.
(used for various other things)
Riverdale High School bought the building and has a 20 year lease on the property.
Capitol Hill school (not technically inside Collins View per se)
CHURCHES
Palatine Hill Road Church - 1947 (Not 1941?)
St Mark Presbyterian Church
Mt Carmel Lutheran Church
ESTATES
1920's Fir Acres, a grand estate developed by Lloyd Frank, designed by Herman Brookman.
COLLEGE
1942 Lewis & Clark College (Albany College) acquired the Frank Estate.
The College renamed itself when moving to their new location. (Separate story!)
Lewis & Clark College acquired Franciscan Renewal Center for York Graduate Center.
Northwestern School of Law, later renamed L&C Law School. (built before 1971!)
Lewis & Clark Ball Field (adj to 4th ave)
Watzek Library.
Agnes Flannigan Chapel built ...197o-ish
STREETS & BRIDGE(s)
Boones Ferry and Taylors Ferry Roads.
Jesse Van Bibber Boone, established the ferry at Wilsonville in 1847
When roads and streets were put in.
Ferry operating on Spokane Street. Any riverboat landing?
First Terwilliger Bridge (was recycled from original Vista Bridge)
Terwilliger Bridge Replacement.
Street re-naming
The Leading 0 project
TRAFFIC
BFR Speed Bumps and Half-Closure
PHR Speed Bumps (near college)
Traffic Circle at Law School
Sidewalk along west side of Terwilliger (Previous extruded asphalt curb).
TRANSIT
Bus service... #40 Capitol Hill to L&C, #43 Taylors Ferry
#39 to Fred Meyer
#39 routed to Hillsdale
Trolley from Portland to Fulton Park (1890) and on to Cemeteries (1891-1899)
LAND DEVELOPMENT
Annexations to City (date1, date2)
When were the various TRACTS formed? eg Killpatrick-Collins
SW 6th Development
Colony Drive
South Ridge
Water Tank on SW Alice.
PARKS
River View Natural Area http://riverviewfriends/history.html
Marshall Park (city park, rescued land from developers)
Formation of Tryon Creek State Park
BUSINESSES
Collins View Grocery
Burlingame Feed Store
Burlingame Grocery (1930s? - 2001)
Market of Choice (16 years, from 2003 to 2019)
Burlingame TV since 1952
Wayne's Barbur Shop
In 1970's -- 4 gas stations @ Terw/TF corner: Chevron/P66/Union76/Shell.
HISTORY of UTILITIES / INFRASTRUCTURE
Fire hall
Water / indoor plumbing
Electrification
USPS Mail Delivery (Never a PO?)
Phone Service
Sewer System
Storm Water Drainage System
COMMUNITY
Dance Hall
CVNA formed
WEATHER and FIRE EVENTS
October 12, 1962
Columbus Day Storm knocked over about 100 trees just on the college campus.
It did so much damage in the city, that schools were closed for a week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_Storm_of_1962
9/18/2001, a week after 9/11, Burlingame Grocery was consumed by owner/arsonist fire.
Old Platt of part of Collins View
Please Honor our Creative Commons License
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
[CC BY 4.0].
All we ask is notification and attribution.
Please send notifications to scoop @ newcollinsview . blog — Double Thanks!
