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Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA

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Portland is the cultural hub, economic center, and largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. According to the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, estimated to have reached 609,456 in 2013, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States. Approximately 2,314,554 people live in the Portland metropolitan area (MSA), the 19th most populated MSA in the United States.

Portland was incorporated in 1851 near the end of the Oregon Trail and is the county seat of Multnomah County. The city operates with a unique commission-based government guided by a mayor and four commissioners as well as Metro – the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the United States. The city government is renowned for its superior land-use planning and investment in public transportation. Portland is frequently recognized as one of the most environmentally conscious or "green" cities in the world because of its high walkability, large community of bicyclists, expansive network of public transportation options and 10,000+ acres of public parks.

Portland is located in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains, and its climate is marked by warm, dry summers as well as damp, cool-to-chilly winter days. This climate is ideal for growing roses. For more than a century, Portland has been known as the "City of Roses", with many rose gardens – most prominently the International Rose Test Garden. The city is also known for its abundant outdoor activities, liberal political values, and coffee and beer enthusiasm. Portland is home to the most total breweries and independent microbreweries of any city in the world, with 58 active breweries within city limits, as well as 600+ food carts and food trucks which contribute to the unofficial slogan "Keep Portland Weird".

History:

The land that is occupied today by Multnomah County was inhabited for centuries by two bands of Upper Chinook Indians. The Multnomah people settled on and around Sauvie Island, and the Cascades Indians settled along the Columbia Gorge. These groups fished and traded along the river and gathered berries, wapato, and other root vegetables. The nearby Tualatin Plains provided prime hunting grounds. The later settlement of Portland started as a spot known as either "Stumptown" or "the clearing", which was on the banks of the Willamette, located about halfway between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver. In 1843, William Overton saw great commercial potential for this land but lacked the funds required to file a land claim. He struck a bargain with his partner, Asa Lovejoy of Boston, Massachusetts: for 25¢, Overton would share his claim to the 640-acre (2.6 km2) site. Overton later sold his half of the claim to Francis W. Pettygrove of Portland, Maine. Pettygrove and Lovejoy each wished to name the new city after his respective home town. In 1845, this controversy was settled with a coin toss, which Pettygrove won in a series of two out of three tosses. The coin used for this decision, now known as the Portland Penny, is on display in the headquarters of the Oregon Historical Society.

At the time of its incorporation on February 8, 1851, Portland had over 800 inhabitants, a steam sawmill, a log cabin hotel, and a newspaper, the Weekly Oregonian. By 1879, the population had grown to 17,500. The city merged with Albina and East Portland in 1891, and annexed the cities of Linnton and St. Johns in 1915.

Portland's location, with access both to the Pacific Ocean via the Willamette and the Columbia rivers and to the agricultural Tualatin Valley via the "Great Plank Road" through a canyon in the West Hills (the route of current-day U.S. Route 26), gave it an advantage over nearby ports, and it grew very quickly. It remained the major port in the Pacific Northwest for much of the 19th century, until the 1890s, when Seattle's deepwater harbor was connected to the rest of the mainland by rail, affording an inland route without the treacherous navigation of the Columbia River.

The most common nickname for Portland is The City of Roses, the city's official nickname since 2003. Other nicknames include the City of Bridges, Stumptown, Bridgetown, Rip City, Little Beirut, Beervana or Beertown, P-Town, Soccer City USA, Portlandia, and the synecdoche PDX.

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
51	Pudwill, Theodore	6 Dez 1958	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I136297
52	Pudwill, Maria Genevieve - wife of	6 Apr 1970	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I136300
53	Pudwill, Billie Kathryn	13 Dez 1987	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I136283
54	Preston, Jessie Lillian	Jun 1987	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I201663
55	Popp, Nicholas	Datum unbekannt	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I11335
56	Peterson, Arthur Martin	21 Mrz 1957	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I219288
57	Peter, Gottlieb August	3 Okt 1956	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I6193
58	Payne, Edna Belle Lucille	19 Mrz 1998	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I227804
59	Opp, Christina	Mai 1983	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I85953
60	Muntz, Pauline	6 Nov 1946	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I148000
61	Moos, Rosalie	23 Mrz 2005	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I184018
62	Meth, Heinrich	4 Apr 1947	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I80184
63	Meidinger, Rosina	9 Mrz 1961	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I84420
64	McIntyre, Austin Bithell	18 Mrz 1968	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I95026
65	McGregor, William Howell	10 Jan 1973	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I227773
66	McDonald, Arabella	5 Sep 1940	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I2379
67	Mauch, William Jacob	18 Okt 1989	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I38127
68	Mauch, Albert Howard	8 Jul 1969	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I94890
69	Main, Reuben Francis	16 Mai 1954	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I264620
70	Lutz, Emil Elvin	27 Jan 1943	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I264132
71	Lutz, Bertha	1966	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I89152
72	Lower, Beaumont Byron	2 Jul 1927	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I2105
73	Lochmann, Amelia	31 Mai 1956	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I271476
74	Lembeck, John W.	22 Mai 1974	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I148001
75	Lammle, Ida	26 Dez 1975	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I136298
76	Lachenmayer, Gustav	1957	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I51855
77	Kränzler, Katharina	25 Jan 1956	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I56489
78	Kost, Gustav Albert	26 Apr 1946	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I99570
79	Klundt, Esther S.	3 Feb 1974	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I110547
80	Kluesner, Raymond Nic	6 Sep 1986	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I150346
81	Kludt, Johannes	13 Dez 1957	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I63070
82	Klingel, Alice Ann	12 Jun 1947	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I265100
83	Klatt, Friedrich	Datum unbekannt	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I227765
84	Kirschenmann, Friedrich	11 Jul 1978	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I99180
85	Kellogg, Ralf Eugene	12 Jun 1999	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I91886
86	Jones, Mary A.	3 Jul 1977	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I99571
87	Jesser, Peter	10 Jun 1932	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I202409
88	Jeske, Otillia	12 Okt 1986	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I80310
89	Jensen, Mary Elizabeth	14 Jan 1980	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I194814
90	Immel, Nick	1966	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I124752
91	Immel, Frank	7 Feb 1988	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I124747
92	Hust, Helen Margaret	30 Nov 1975	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I261362
93	Hoskins, Avis Thelma	12 Nov 2002	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I106674
94	Holmes, Dorothy Aileen	8 Dez 2005	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I253925
95	Hochstetter, Clarence Berthold	2 Nov 1959	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I119021
96	Hirning, Paulina	10 Jan 1970	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I113501
97	Hirning, Emil Henry	14 Nov 1978	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I112590
98	Hildenbrandt, Karolina Magdelina	20 Feb 1965	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I261871
99	Higman, Genevieve Mae	8 Aug 1977	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I12368
100	Hieb, Theobald	geschätzt 1930	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA	I57055

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