Fairview’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Fairview. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Members of the Multnomah tribe of Chinookan Indians lived in a village on Sauvie Island by the Columbia River (the future site of Fairview) when the Lewis and Clark Expedition visited the area in 1806. By the 1840s and 1850s, white settlers began hay, grain, and livestock operations in what would become eastern Multnomah County. Railroad tracks extended to the area by the 1890s. As the population grew, it may be assumed that residents began referring to the locale as Fairview because of the pleasing views of the nearby Columbia, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood, though an alternative testimony explains this name originated from the area's ideal lookout spot for approaching hostile natives. Since another community named Fairview already existed on the Oregon Coast, the community's first post office was named Cleone until the coastal post office closed and the name was transferred…
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Start Fairview’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fairview’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewPostmaster Appointments for Multn…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Fairview, decade by decade
2000
unknown1 item
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Postmaster Appointments for Multnomah County, Oregon and it appears here side by side.
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