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40: 59: 66: 297:. After the war, chemical and petroleum processing and storage, metals manufacturing, and other large industries expanded in the area. In 2001, the Portland City Council adopted the Guild's Lake Industrial Sanctuary Plan aimed at protecting the area's "long-term economic viability as an industrial district." 280:
from the Willamette River. Civic leaders promoted the Guild's Lake area as a good place for industry, and by the mid-1920s the lake was gone. Instead, it became "a drying and settling mud flat ... awaiting development during World War II". During
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in the Willamette River improved the city's status as a deep-water seaport, as did completion in 1914 of a port terminal. These developments helped make nearby Guild's Lake the most important industrial area in Portland.
225:. The lake was at an elevation of 33 feet (10 m) above sea level between what later became Northwest Saint Helens Road and Northwest Yeon Street, slightly west of Northwest 35th Avenue in the 268:, held on an artificial island in Guild's Lake, had helped spur growth in the area. After the exposition ended, developers filled the lake and its surrounds with rocks and gravel 381:
Dibling, Karin; Martin, Julie Kay; Olson, Meghan Stone; Webb, Gayle (2006). "Photo Essay: Guild's Lake Industrial District: The Process of Change over Time".
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but not in the swampy area along the Balch Creek side of the river in what later became northwest
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in the 1880s, became an important switching yard for trains. Beginning in the 1890s,
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in the area. In 1847, he acquired nearly 600 acres (2.4 km) of the
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project, provided temporary housing for workers in the nearby
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The lake took its name from Peter Guild (pronounced
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Guild's Lake Courts: an impermanent housing project
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Guild's Lake Courts
Balloon ascension over Guild's Lake during the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon
Exposition
Guild's Lake was located in Portland, Oregon
Willamette River
Balch Creek
Multnomah
Oregon
United States
45°32′49″N 122°43′14″W / 45.54694°N 122.72056°W / 45.54694; -122.72056
Type
Portland
Balch Creek
Willamette River
U.S. state
Oregon
Multnomah
Sauvie Island
Portland
Northwest Industrial
settlers
wetlands
donation land claim
incinerator
Northern Pacific Railway
channel-deepening
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition
sluiced
West Hills
dredged

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