Take a Trip Back in Time!

Like many Northeast Portland neighborhoods, Beaumont-Wilshire was carved from orchards, open fields, and patches of forest. As a young Portland sprawled across the river, the rural landscape of the eastside was replaced by a grid of neighborhoods, a busy streetcar system, and tens of thousands of new residents. Successive waves of homebuilding and change in the decades that followed shaped the neighborhoods we know today. Using early maps, documents, photos and newspaper accounts, and memories he’s collected from past residents, local historian Doug Decker will explore the early years of Northeast Portland neighborhoods — including Beaumont-Wilshire — to examine connections between past, present, and future.

About Doug Decker
Doug Decker’s public history research may be best known through his blog AlamedaHistory.org and the dozens of studies, lectures, and tours he’s led of Portland neighborhoods and buildings and forested lands across Oregon.

Host or Publisher Beaumont-Wilshire Neighborhood Association