Post Flood Movement

Post Flood Movement
Shipbuilders
buildersliving
livingquarters,
quarters,the
thetown
towncreated
createdby
bythese
these
Ship
structureswas
wasknown
knownas
asVanport
Vanport
structures
1942
1942.
1948
Numerous homes were
destroyed in the Vanport
Vanport
flood
1948
Flood of Vanport caused a mass migration of
workers from Portland
escaping the vanport
Family Escaping
Vanportflood
Flood
1959
1959
Demolishedtotomake
makeway
wa for the Memorial Coliseum in
Demolished
1960
Portland Memorial Coliseum’s construction uprooted many
families