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A photo from the Oregon Historical Society shows a group of young refugees displaced by
the Vanport Flood in 1948.
Vanport Mosaic Showing
History center hosts show and conversation
Vanport -- Oregon’s second
largest city before floodwaters
wiped it off the map -- and the
nation’s largest public hous-
ing project, drew national at-
tention and conflicting opin-
ions during it the six years it
was in existence, But for the
over 40,000 people who lived
there, Vanport was simply
their home.
When the Columbia River
flooded on Memorial Day in
1948, the entire city, located
between Portland and Vancou-
ver, was erased from the map
and from much of the region’s
memory in a single day.
Mixing archival photo-
graphs and historical records
with personal testimonies of
former residents, the Ore-
gon Historical Society hosts
the exhibit “Vanport: A story
Lived, A Story Told,” curated
by Laura Lo Forti and Greta
Smith, from Thursday, Sept.
28 through Oct. 5. It is a sto-
ry of migration, housing, dis-
placement, and perseverance.
The museum at 1200 S.W.
Park Ave. is also hosting a
community conversation to
hear about Vanport and anoth-
er former town in Oregon that
had deep African American
roots when “From Maxville to
Vanport” is held in association
with the exhibit on Saturday,
Sept. 30 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
This event is free and open to
the public.
Maxville, built in 1923 in
Wallowa County, and Vanport,
built in 1942, were multi-cul-
tural communities built to
house workforces with signifi-
cant black and immigrant pop-
ulations at a time when many
Oregonians were openly hos-
tile to these groups.