The STCC has several people from Oregon. Let's go and visit Troutdale, Oregon today.

The photos are: 1) downtown Troutdale, 2) the Troutdale Bridge, 3) Columbia Park in Troutdale, and 4) a view of the Columbia River running near Troutdale.

Troutdale is a city in Multnomah County, Oregon, north of Gresham and east of Wood Village. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 13,777.

Troutdale was incorporated on October 2, 1907. It was named after the country home of Captain John Harlow, a former sea captain from Maine, and a successful Portland businessman. According to an article in the Oregonian in 1959, he named his home Troutdale because it had a "small dale near his house where it had a fish pond which he stocked with trout."
The city serves as the eastern gateway to the Historic Columbia River Highway, the Mount Hood Scenic Byway, and the Columbia River Gorge.

The area was first "discovered" by Lt. Broughton under the command of Captain George Vancouver in 1792. They had named Broughton's Bluff which is an outcropping directly across the Sandy River from what is now downtown Troutdale.
The earliest settlers came to Troutdale in 1850. David F. Buxton is considered to be Troutdale's true founder. He had made land claims and donated his land in 1853 in what is now the center of Troutdale. Captain John Harlow purchased part of Buxton's land in 1872 and built a home and some trout farms, he named this farm "Troutdale". On November 20th, 1882, a rail line was built through the town. After Harlow's death in 1883, his widow Celestia began platting a town with blocks and streets. Much of the city was built in 1890-91.
The City of Troutdale held a centennial celebration on October 6, 2007.

The town's major industry was the American Dressed Meat Company, later sold to become Portland's Swift and Company. Other industries that rose were a lumber mill, a hotel and a distillery. The distillery burned in what was reported as a "bright blue flame" in the 1890's.

In 1907, a disastrous fire swept through the city burning the 1890's buildings. A church built on a hillside two blocks from the business district was one of the few 1890's buildings that survived. Some homes also survived. In 1925, a second fire mostly destroyed the business district. This fire is believed to have resulted from an explosion of a still in the garage of John Larsson, the former mayor's husband. The Tiller Hotel and Helming's Saloon, both built after the first 1907 fire, are two of the pre-1925 buildings left in the business district today.

The Columbia River Highway was built and ran through Troutdale in 1916. Enterprising residents opened businesses, restaurants, tea rooms, hot dog stands and dance pavilions to feed and entertain the travellers.

Construction of an aluminum plant was a boon to the economy in the mid 1940's, but eventually its emissions ended the gladiola industry and damaged other crops. Completion of Interstate 84 in the 1950's pulled traffic off the Columbia River Highway and away from Troutdale. The City remained fairly quiet during the 1950's.

Suddenly in the 1960's, Portland suburbanites discovered Troutdale and the City built its first subdivision and made plans for a new sewage treatment plant. Under the guidance of Mayor Glenn Otto, who later became a state senator and statewide leader, the city boundaries expanded from 320 to more than 2000 acres.

Today's Jumble (9/19/08):

ASTEE = TEASE; CYRUR = CURRY; PORTSY = SPORTY; USDABE = ABUSED

CIRCLED LETTERS = EASURSRTSED

The mattress was guaranteed so the couple could - - -

"REST ASSURED"

Today is POW/MIA Recognition Day (National, US) - Observed each year on the third Friday of September. It is also Talk Like A Pirate Day - Observed September 19th every year.

Other things on this day in history:

335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 - In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French.
1676 - Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
1692 - Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
1777 - First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights.
1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1796 - George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Iuka - Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on 28 January 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
1870 - Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1893 - Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
1926 - The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh III.
1940 - Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
1942 - Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by the German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec.
1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.
1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1952 - The U.S. bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England.
1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test.
1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino".
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
1961 - Betty and Barney Hill claim to have seen a mysterious craft in the sky that tried to abduct them. This continued into the 20th of September.
1970 - The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, UK.
1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
1976 - A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155.
1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
1985 - A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
1985 - Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1988 - Greg Louganis suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics; goes on to win two Gold medals.
1989 - A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
1991 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists.
1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1997 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2006 - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. Constitution revoked; martial law declared.