The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The community was established as "Venner's Villas" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when a land entrepreneur, J. C. Lanerberg, purchased land from various sources including the government, railroad companies, and other landowners. He divided the land into 10-acre (40,000 m2) lots. To market the area, Lanerberg produced pamphlets written in Swedish that highlighted its resemblance to rural Sweden. The flyers were concentrated in large, urban communities throughout the United States and the first settlers who arrived in the early 1900s were mostly of Swedish ancestry. The growth of nearby Vancouver and Portland led to an influx of new residents in the 1960s.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Venersborg’s history is told.
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Venersborg, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Venersborg is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Venersborg has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Venersborg School in Venersborg, 2.5 miles away.
Venersborg and the nearest listed places
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.