Category Archives: Historic Events

Historic events in Garden Home

Garden Home History Timeline

Posted on September 22, 2023 by gardenhomehistoryproject

The history timeline is a fun and different way to explore the content we have on GardenHomeHistory.com. We hope you’ll stumble across something you haven’t seen before! Stan Houseman and Tom Shreve, 2023 Prior to 1900 The territory of the … Continue reading →

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Development of SW Multnomah Boulevard

Posted on June 20, 2018 by gardenhomehistoryproject

Editor: This story, written by Lowell Swanson, was first printed in the Multnomah Historical Society’s Winter 2005 newsletter. The story was retrieved for us by Tim Lyman, their Chair, and is printed with his permission. It validates the date and … Continue reading →

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Photos from the Five Oaks Museum

Posted on June 8, 2017 by GHHP

We recently acquired a trove of historical photos of Garden Home courtesy of the Five Oaks Museum (formerly the Washington County Museum). We’re still working on stories for some of these photos, but we’re too excited about them to not … Continue reading →

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1903 Halloween night slaying on “the Garden Home road”

Posted on November 3, 2016 by GHHP

We recently posted a story about the other Garden Home road discussing how the moniker of Garden Home road used to refer to the route of SW Broadway Drive to SW Patton Road to SW Shattuck Road to SW Oleson … Continue reading →

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Miles Lowell Edwards, Heart Valve Inventor

Posted on November 3, 2016 by GHHP

The long low industrial building at 6611 SW Multnomah Boulevard, now the home of Power Plumbing, was formerly a research lab where the famed Starr-Edwards heart valve was developed by M. Lowell Edwards and Dr. Albert Starr. From the entry … Continue reading →

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