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<DIV>About 1930/31 Portland changed the street names. The third floor of the main library has a reference book that show the changes.</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR><BR>> Jack, can't say about woodlawn, and since my source of info is an aerial <BR>> photo, but there is a house on the corner that Yahoo and USA Photo maps say <BR>> is 607 Liberty, it is a BIG house seems to take up most of the lot, my son <BR>> thinks it looks like and older house. <BR>> <BR>> You really had me going with the Woodlawn place name, finally googled it and <BR>> plugged in the zip code and lo and behold, the greats were real <BR>> adventuresome, they moved a whole ten Blocks there! <BR>> <BR>> No clues about the house on the corner, there except if had a flat or nearly <BR>> flat roof, and was much smaller. <BR>> <BR>> Can't come up with a location for 7 1/2 Union, or Meachan's corner, as a <BR>> matter of fact Yahoo doesn't have a clue about Meachan's Corner, nor does <BR>> Google?? <BR>> <BR>> Admittedly looking down on the roof doesn't tell you much, but you might be <BR>> able to call the county records folks to find out how old the houses are, <BR>> that is if they have a clue from deeds taxes etc and are willing to look. <BR>> <BR>> Les C <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message----- <BR>> From: or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us <BR>> [mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of wm0g@comcast.net <BR>> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:10 AM <BR>> To: or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us <BR>> Subject: [or-roots] old Portland area addresses <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Hi List, <BR>> <BR>> My wife's great grandparents, Garrisson P. Nickell and Laura A. (Poston) <BR>> Nickell and their family, lived in and about Portland from about 1880 after <BR>> leaving their homestead in Eugene. They lived at the following addresses: <BR>> <BR>> 1. Before 1916: Lived at 606 NE Junior at 15th St in Woodlawn, OR <BR>> 2. Meachan's Corner <BR>> 3. From about 1915 lived at 607 Liberty St in Portland, OR <BR>> & 7 1/2 Union St. in Portland, OR <BR>> <BR>> I wonder if any of these old structures are still around? <BR>> <BR>> Jack Ciaccia <BR>> -- <BR>> No virus found in this outgoing message. <BR>> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. <BR>> Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.4/109 - Release Date: 9/21/2005 <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> or-roots mailing list <BR>> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us <BR>> http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>