Portland cement
See also: Portland cement (homonymy)
Portland is more the big city of the State of the Oregon, and the seat of the Comté of Multnomah. Located on the river Columbia and the river Willamette at the North-West of the the United States, it counted 529.121 inhabitants in 2000 and 556.370 in 2005 (estimates), 2.095.861 people live in her urban surface, the 26e of the country.
The city is called “the City of the Pinks” thanks to the Japanese currents which soften the climate and in “International the Pink Gardens” who is the largest garden of pinks of the world. Portland cement is twinned with the town of Sapporo with (Japan). Moreover, the city has a team of Basket-ball the Portland Blazers.
History
Portland cement appears as a locality known under the name of The Clearing which is located on the banks Willamette River halfway of the way between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver. In 1843 William Overton understands that the area has a great commercial potential, but lack of funds to acquire the ground. It concluded a market with its partner Asa Lovejoy. For 25 ¢, Overton shares the site of 2,6 km ².
Annoyed with the idea to cut the trees and to build roads, Overton sells half of its ground with Francis W. Pettygrove. When arrives the moment to name the new city, Pettygrove and Lovejoy wish both to call it according to their town of origin. They put an end to the argument thanks to a pile or face: Pettygrove gains and names the city according to Portland (Maine) (it would have become another Boston in the other case).
Portland cement exists in the shade of Oregon City, the territorial capital located at 19 km upstream of the falls of Willamette. However, because it are located at a point of the river allowing navigation, which provides him a favor-key at the harbor level, it quickly becomes the main city of the State, also triumphing over the rival cities over Milwaukie and Sellwood. In 1850 Portland has 800 inhabitants, a sawmill with vapor, a hotel and a newspaper, the Weekly Oregonian . Portland cement is the principal port of the area during most of the 19th century until the Années 1890 when the access by rail between the wearing of deep water of Seattle and the Stampede Pass is built. The goods can consequently be transported without the assistance of the ships. But that does not prevent the city from preserving its position of metropolis of Oregon.
Geography
Portland cement is at the northern border of the most populated area of Oregon, the Vallée of Willamette - from which itself, like its urban surface, are excluded by the use because culturally and politically distinct - in the counties of Multnomah, for most of the city, and of Clackamas and Washington. According to the Bureau of the census of the United States the city has an total surface area of 347,9 km ², including 28,6 km ² of water levels, that is to say 7,6% of the total.
Portland cement is often quoted like the example of a city controlling of close its Urbanisme contrary, for example, of Houston.
Demography
Economy
Presence of the Technopolis of Silicon Forest specialized in the multi-media one.
Sports
Twinnings
The twin towns with Portland are the following ones:
See too
References
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