Linnton is a Portland, Oregon neighborhood located between Forest Park and the Willamette River along U.S. Route 30 (NW St. Helens Rd.), close to the agricultural community of Sauvie Island . It borders the neighborhoods of Northwest Industrial on the south, St. Johns and Cathedral Park via the St. Johns Bridge across the Willamette on the east, and Forest Park (with which it overlaps substantially) on the west. The neighborhood extends north somewhat beyond Portland city limits into unincorporated Multnomah County , ending at the Wapato Bridge .
6-621: According to Oregon Geographic Names , the Town of Linnton was platted in 1843 by Peter Burnett (later, the first governor of California ) and Morton M. McCarver . The two named the community for U.S. Senator Lewis F. Linn of Missouri , a proponent of settling the Oregon Country . Linnton had its own post office from 1889–1975. Industrialization began in 1889 when the Portland Smelting Company started to build
12-701: A smelting plant , followed by the Linnton Manufacturing Company starting in 1892. Columbia Engineering Works arrived in Linnton in 1910. Linnton was incorporated on October 5, 1910, after a vote on September 12. At that time it was a company town for Clark-Wilson and West Oregon lumber mills, and the Columbia Engineering Works shipyard. In 1913, the Portland Gas & Coke Company moved its manufacturing plant to
18-509: Is from Linnton. The train hopping scenes from the movie Paranoid Park (2007) were filmed around the NW 107th Ave grade crossing. Leave No Trace (film) follows the real-life story of a father and daughter living above St. Helens Rd. in Forest Park, a part of Linnton. Oregon Geographic Names Oregon Geographic Names is a compilation of the origin and meaning of place names in
24-613: The U.S. state of Oregon , published by the Oregon Historical Society . The book was originally published in 1928. It was compiled and edited by Lewis A. McArthur . As of 2011 , the book is in its seventh edition, which was compiled and edited by Lewis L. McArthur (who died in 2018). In its introduction, it identifies six periods in the history of the state which have contributed to the establishment of local names: The seventh edition contains 6,252 entries, with references to another 2,679 names scattered throughout
30-468: The text. Entries are listed in alphabetical order, beginning with A B Crossing , a railroad station in Coos County , and ending with Zwagg Island , an island near Brookings, Oregon . The first three editions were edited by Lewis A. McArthur and published by Binford & Mort ; Lewis L. McArthur took over from his father as of the fourth (1974) edition, which was the first to be published by
36-433: The town's southern border large oil refiners began to purchase sites for shipping and storage. Linnton was soon annexed by Portland in 1915, bringing with it much of today's Forest Park . In 2006 there was talk of secession following a rejection by Portland Mayor Tom Potter and two other city council members of a waterfront revitalization plan over toxic industrial waste concerns. Walter W. Cole, known as Darcelle XV ,
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