[or-roots] May 30, 1948 Vanport Flood Remembered

[W David Samuelsen]

There is a book devoted completely to the Vanport Flood. Includes
lots of pictures showing where the break was located (it was
the train trestle bridge.)

the area had been reclaimed and is now the Portland Meadows race-track
and golf course.

cchouk wrote:
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> The Vanport Flood washed away Vanport City, the largest public housing
> project ever built in the United States, at 4:05 p.m. on May 30, 1948, when
> the dike holding back the Columbia River gave way. The city, at one time
> responsible for housing nearly 50,000 people after construction was
> completed
> in 1943, was underwater by nightfall. Fifteen people died in the flood.
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