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Vanport Placemarking Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

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Children and teachers playing outside of a childcare center in Vanport City, circa 1944
Children playing in a Vanport childcare center
Childcare center with boys on a slide alongside their teacher
Children in the United Church Ministry Sunday School class, Vanport circa 1944
Children and teachers playing outside of a childcare center in Vanport City, circa 1944
Vanport City marching band, circa 1944
Circa 1943 Vanport apartment, Mrs. Harriet Curry's dining room
1944 Vanport apartment kitchen with woman cooking and child in highchair
Entrance to Vanport from N Denver in 1944
Vanport men laying wooden walks through the mud to rescue families from the 1948 Vanport flood
Aerial view of the 1948 Vanport flood
Vanport children on the monkeybars
The breach in the dike that is flooding Vanport
Aerial view of Vanport prior to the 1948 flood.
Vanport kitchen display

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Updates

  • Slough Supper Highlights April 2, 2020
  • You’re Invited to the Neighborhood Slough Supper! January 24, 2020
  • Vanport Map and Photos Installed on PIR Administration Building July 6, 2018

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