Take A Trip Back in Time
Tue, Apr 01
|Fremont United Methodist Church
A presentation by local historian Doug Decker on early NE neighborhood history. Seating is limited, and reservations are required!
Time & Location
Apr 01, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Fremont United Methodist Church, 2620 NE Fremont St. Portland, Oregon
About the Event
Like many Northeast Portland neighborhoods, Beaumont-Wilshire was carved from orchards, open fields, and patches of forest. As a young Portland sprawled across the river, the rural landscape of the eastside was replaced by a grid of neighborhoods, a busy streetcar system, and tens of thousands of new residents. Successive waves of homebuilding and change in the decades that followed shaped the neighborhoods we know today. Using early maps, documents, photos and newspaper accounts, and memories he’s collected from past residents, local historian Doug Decker will explore the early years of Northeast Portland neighborhoods — including Beaumont-Wilshire — to examine connections between past, present, and future.
Reservations are required. To reserve your seat visit BWNA/eventbrite.com.
About Doug Decker: Doug's public history research may be best known through AlamedaHistory.org and the dozens of studies, lectures, and tours he’s led of Portland neighborhoods and buildings and forested lands across Oregon.