Riverview Cemetery is a private cemetery located in the west hills of SW Portland. Founded in 1882 by a group of prominent Portlanders, this cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Ladd, Corbett, and Pittock families. Other notables buried here include western lawman, Virgil Earp, brother of Wyatt, and suffragist Abigail Scott […]
Overlook is a charming residential enclave in North Portland that is often 'overlooked', in spite of the larger lot sizes, leafy tree canopy and stunning views along the Willamette River bluff. We'll start the tour at the venerable Overlook Park Shelter (c.1930) and make our way north along the bluff and into the neighborhood north […]
Milwaukie was settled by pioneers coming West on the Oregon Trail in the late 1840s and early 1850s. The first settlers established lumber and grist mills and later several families established prosperous fruit orchards. Milwaukie and other Willamette River settlements lost out to Portland in the competition to become the major city on the Willamettte […]