Dr. Tracy Prince will be presenting a slide show of historical photos from her book Portland's Goose Hollow, showing the earliest days of the frontier city of Portland.  Presentation will take place on February 19, 2012 at the Central Public Library (801 SW 10th Ave.) from 1-2:00pm in the US Bank Room.  Flyer of event here.

THE BANNERS ARE HERE!!  Celebrate your neighborhood by hanging one of our beautiful Goose Hollow (est. 1845) banners -- see picture to the right.  More information on how to get them can be found here.

The Goose Hollow Foothills League Neighborhood Association, established in the 1970s, is host to four historic residential communities -- King's Hill, Gander Ridge, Vista Ridge, and (circa 1870s) Goose Hollow itself. (map)  A hundred years earlier, however, the name "Goose Hollow" applied pejoratively to only the lower elevations around the path of Tanner Creek that was the primary residence for a substantial goose population and to Chinese vegetable farmers.  A century ago, this creek was buried and the Tanner Creek Gulch infilled to form the basin of the bowl that is now modern-day Goose Hollow, an area that not only refers to the flats but also the adjacent heights (King's Hill, Vista Ridge, Gander Ridge) and Canyons (Tanner Creek Canyon, Cable Car Canyon).

The four areas that comprise Goose Hollow each have their own separate character.  The flats of Goose Hollow is an uptown area of older brick apartment houses and residential hotels mixed together with historic Queen Anne vernacular cottages as well as commercial and light industrial spaces.  The northern end of the historic Goose Hollow flats was briefly (in the 1920s) called the the Lownsdale district, through that name was never historically significant.  The Goose Hollow area called King's Hill once hosted the residences of Portland's turn of the century wealthier merchants, now partly infilled with higher density apartments and offices.  Goose Hollow's Gander Ridge and Vista Ridge areas are at the east and west foot, respectively, of Portland Heights and at the south edge of Goose Hollow's bowl.

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