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21-454: In 1850, Nathan B. Jones, a pioneer of 1847, settled at the head of Tanner Creek and platted lots for a community he called "Zion Town". It is unknown if he named the place for Mount Zion, a summit located about a mile to the southeast. Because the name "Zion" for a local post office would have caused confusion, as there had already been two post offices so-named in Oregon, a resident suggested

42-401: A part in a general conspiracy to slight the work." The Tanner Creek trunk sewer ran from Southwest Taylor Street to the river near the intersection of Front Avenue and Pettygrove Street. Tanner Springs Park , at Northwest 10th Avenue and Marshall Street, commemorates the creek. Opened on land acquired in 2003, it is an "urban waterscape" built on fill that rises 20 feet (6 m) higher than

63-528: A popular place for jumpers , with the first incident possibly occurring five years after its 1926 opening, earning it the nickname "Suicide Bridge". From 2004 through 2011, 13 people died by suicide by jumping. In July 2013, following three fatal jumps in six months, Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick approved an emergency request by the Portland Transportation Bureau to erect temporary suicide barriers. Because of its status on

84-532: A ravine. The ravine or gulch was up to 50 feet (15 m) deep in places and as wide in places as several city blocks. Vista Bridge in the Goose Hollow neighborhood crosses a remnant of the Tanner Creek gulch. Pavement markers near Providence Park indicate the creek's former course in that vicinity. The creek emptied into Couch Lake, near today's Union Station . The lake, which no longer exists,

105-628: A renovation of the bridge deck. In 1991, several bungee jumps were filmed here for an Oregon Lottery advertisement. Opening scenes for the 2004 film What the Bleep Do We Know!? were filmed in Goose Hollow and included views of the Vista Bridge and the Goose Hollow/SW Jefferson St (MAX station) . In 2010, the title shot for Portlandia was photographed from the Vista Bridge. The bridge has been

126-596: Is a member of Neighbors West-Northwest. This Multnomah County , Oregon state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tanner Creek Tanner Creek is a small tributary of the Willamette River in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon . Named after a tannery owned by one of the city's founders, it begins in what is now the Sylvan–Highlands neighborhood in

147-506: Is also referred to as Portland Heights ) which are both in the Goose Hollow neighborhood. The MAX Light Rail line and Jefferson Street/Canyon Road travel under the bridge, and Vista Avenue crosses the bridge. The ravine the Vista Bridge passes over was carved out by Tanner Creek and is referred to as the Tanner Creek Canyon (the source of the name for Canyon Road ), which was called "The Great Plank Road". Tanner Creek

168-629: The Tualatin Mountains (West Hills) west of downtown. In the 19th century the creek flowed on the surface, running northeast across the city, past what later became Providence Park and into a shallow lake (Couch Lake) and wetlands in what became the Pearl District , bordering the river. Late in the century, the city began re-routing Tanner Creek and other West Hills streams into combined sewers and filling their former channels and basins to make flat land for homes and businesses. In

189-534: The 21st century, Tanner Creek is nearly invisible, flowing through a conduit (but not a combined sewer) that empties into the Willamette at Outfall 11, near the Broadway Bridge . Structures along the former course of the creek include Vista Bridge and Tanner Springs Park as well as Providence Park. Daniel Lownsdale , an early Portland settler and one of Portland's founders, built a tannery along

210-743: The National Register of Historic Places the bridge's barrier had to be approved by the Preservation Society under the National Historic Preservation Act and by the State Historic Preservation Office and any federal and state agencies that provide funding. Following the erection of a suicide barrier in the fall of 2013, as a result of protest on the behalf of local residents, a would-be jumper managed to get around

231-607: The Portland city limits in Multnomah County . Schools that serve the neighborhood include Ainsworth Elementary School, Bridlemile Elementary School, West Sylvan Middle School, and Lincoln High School . The Portland Children's Museum , the Oregon Zoo and Washington Park are all located in the neighborhood. The Sylvan-Highlands Neighborhood Association meets on the second Tuesday of every months. The association

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252-421: The city's founders. Couch built a home on the west side of the lake. The creek's headwaters lie in what is now the Sylvan–Highlands neighborhood in the Tualatin Mountains (West Hills) west of downtown. The creek flowed down the canyon that now accommodates Southwest Jefferson Street and Canyon Road (U.S. Highway 26). Its course continued across the site of the later Civic Stadium (Providence Park) and down

273-589: The creek in 1845. The creek was named for the tannery. Canyon Road , important to Portland's early development, was built along Tanner Creek canyon. First opened in 1849, the road connected Portland to the Tualatin Valley . Lownsdale was the surveyor on an improved version, a plank road , two years later, which began near the future site of the Portland Art Museum . Couch Lake was named for John H. Couch , another early settler and one of

294-402: The former lake surface. The wetlands in the park are not connected to Tanner Creek but depend mostly on recycled rainwater. In 2006, the city completed a pipeline that removed Tanner Creek from the combined sewer system and carried the creek water directly into the Willamette. This was part of a much larger project designed to keep sewage from entering the river during storms. The outfall into

315-482: The name "Sylvan", from the Roman deity of the woods Silvanus . The office was established in 1890 and it closed in 1906. Nathan B. Jones, who was considered an eccentric hermit, had wanted Zion Town to become the new capitol of Oregon. He was murdered during the course of a robbery in 1894. Sylvan post office was located at what today is the interchange of Sunset Highway , Scholls Ferry Road and Skyline Boulevard within

336-596: The river is about a quarter-mile downstream of the Broadway Bridge and 11.4 miles (18.3 km) upstream of the Willamette's confluence with the Columbia River Vista Bridge The Vista Bridge (officially, Vista Avenue Viaduct ) is an arch bridge for vehicles and pedestrians located in Portland, Oregon , United States . It connects the areas of King's Hill and Vista Ridge (the entire southern hillside

357-531: The sewer, about 6 feet (1.8 m) in diameter, was at that time "one of the largest trunk sewers ever built by the city." In 1904, the sewer collapsed near the Multnomah Athletic Club and flooded property downhill. Investigation of the subsequent sewer reconstruction and repair led to a scandal during the administration of Mayor George Henry Williams and to the firing of the city engineer and chief deputy city engineer on grounds "that they had

378-554: Was designed by architect Fred T. Fowler. It is of a rib-reinforced concrete deck arch design. Completed in 1926, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places , as the Vista Avenue Viaduct , on April 26, 1984. The Ford Street Bridge, a previous bridge on this site, was built in 1903 as part of a streetcar route to Council Crest , the highest point in Portland at 1,070 feet. Council Crest

399-441: Was diverted underground beginning in the 1870s with work completed in the early 1900s. The creek still runs underground beneath the Vista Bridge, although it now drains the surrounding hillside via storm drains and a culvert to the Willamette River . The bridge has four pedestrian balconies, or "refuge bays" (extensions outward from the sidewalk), holding concrete benches, two on each side. The 248-foot-long (76 m) structure

420-487: Was the site of the "Big Tree Observatory" (built for the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition) and a popular amusement park and dance hall that operated from 1907 to 1929. Streetcars crossed the current bridge until 1950, when service on the Council Crest line (and the only other two then-remaining urban streetcar lines) was abandoned, but the disused tracks remained in place on the bridge for another four decades, until

441-598: Was up to 15 feet (4.6 m) deep and covered 22 city blocks. In 1888, after the Northern Pacific Terminal Company bought the lake, it began filling it with sand and ship ballast . Between 1887 and 1891, the City of Portland built a Tanner Creek combined sewer to carry the creek as well as storm runoff and sewage from the West Hills and its homes to the river. Constructed in three stages,

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