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The first known reference to Portland as "The City of Roses" was made by visitors to an 1888 Episcopal Church convention. [citation needed] In 1889, the Portland Rose Society was founded, and promoted the planting of 20 miles (32 km) of Portland's streets with roses in advance of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. [5]
Whitefish, Montana, was called Stumptown as the area was cleared for the train station. Matthews, North Carolina, was originally named Stumptown in the early 19th century after cotton farmers cleared the land, leaving tree stumps everywhere. Portland, Oregon, bears the nickname Stumptown, as well as several other nicknames.
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county.
The species is believed to only exist within the boundaries of the Portland metropolitan area. [1] It lives in small freshwater creeks and tributaries. [1] "Stumptown" is a nickname applied to Portland and several other locations in the United States. [3] [4] [5]
Stumptown, an American comic book series by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth; Stumptown, an American television series based on the comic book series; Stumptown Coffee Roasters, an American coffee roaster and retailer based in Portland, Oregon "Stumptown", a song on Nickel Creek's album Why Should the Fire Die?
Portland in 1853. The site of the future city of Portland, Oregon, was known to American, Canadian, and British traders, trappers and settlers of the 1830s and early 1840s as "The Clearing," [5] a small stopping place along the west bank of the Willamette River used by travelers en route between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver.
The Sutter Buttes are not technically a mountain range, but the leftovers of volcanic action that occurred more than a million years ago. The remnants of the dormant volcano created a ring that ...
The city has hosted an annual SantaCon pub crawl, [37] [38] sometimes called Stumptown Santacon. [39] [40] Since the early 2010s, Chris Willis has installed a display of Santa statues called Santa Clones throughout the city. [41] Since 2010, the Krampus parade called Krampus Lauf has been held on Hawthorne Boulevard in southeast Portland.