Gladstone, Oregon Gladstone, Oregon Fire and police station, positioned in Gladstone's downtown Fire and police station, positioned in Gladstone's downtown Official seal of Gladstone Website City of Gladstone Gladstone is a town/city located in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
Gladstone is an approximately 4-square-mile (10 km2) suburban community, 12 miles (19 km) south of Portland, the biggest city in Oregon, and positioned at the confluence of the Clackamas and Willamette rivers. Gladstone has held a several important cultural and civil events, hosting both the inaugural Clackamas County Fair and the Oregon State Fair, before both were moved to more spacious locations. Both Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt have given enhance speeches in the city. 1.4 Founding of Gladstone In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory and beyond. Although the expedition passed only near the Gladstone Oregon City locality on their way to and from the Pacific Ocean, via the Columbia River, natives such as the Kalapuya and the Clackamas citizens told them about the area. As Oregon City was established and European pioneer began moving to the area, they petitioned their governments to remove the small-town natives from the land, so that the pioneer could use it for farming and housing.
The government allocated a reservation for the natives and re-appropriated Gladstone for redevelopment. As of 2014, the only extant remnant of the bygone natives is a large maple tree called the "Pow Wow Tree", which is listed as an Oregon Heritage Tree. The tree still stands at Clackamas Boulevard, and is said to have marked the place where the different native tribes, mainly Clackamas and Multnomahs, met to make trading agreements, settle improve affairs, and conduct wedding ceremonies.
In 1937, the tree itself was jubilated with the Gladstone Pow-Wow Festival. Rinearson and his family owned the territory between Jennings Lodge and the Clackamas River, and between the Willamette River and Portland Avenue. Fendal Cason, who came to Oregon in 1843 and would go on to serve on in the Oregon Territorial Legislature, owned an region of equal in size east of Portland Avenue. Judge Harvey Cross (1856-1927), founder of Gladstone Oregon Gladstone was established by Judge Harvey Cross in 1889, and formally incorporated on January 10, 1911.
In 1894, the Chautauqua boss made its way to Gladstone.
Judge Cross established a fifty-year lease of Gladstone Park for this event after he was convinced by Oregon City author Eva Emery Dye that doing so would be a boon to the town/city and its citizens .
Beginning on July 24 26, 1894, the newly formed Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association held an annual summer assembly that offered performances, lectures, and concerts. This event would reoccur annually, until Gladstone's Chautauqua Park interval to be the third-largest permanent Chautauqua assembly park in the United States. In 1896, William Jennings Bryan drew a crowd of 6,000 to Gladstone's then 78-acre Chautauqua park to hear him give his prominent lecture, "The Prince of Peace", which stressed that Christian theology, through both individual and group morality, was a solid foundation for peace and equality. Judge Cross died on August 7, 1927, and shortly after that, Gladstone Park, including its buildings and Chautauqua Lake, were sold to the Western Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has an official region of 2.48 square miles (6.42 km2). The town/city of Gladstone is immediately bordered by the following communities, listed in descending order of population: Oregon City, the governmental center of county of Clackamas County, sits to the south, almost entirely separated by the Clackamas River Jennings Lodge, a census-designated place and unincorporated area, runs between Oak Grove and Gladstone.
Oatfield, a census-designated place and unincorporated region similar to Jennings Lodge, exists between Milwaukie, to the north, and Gladstone, to the south.
Johnson City, a very small incorporated town/city of approximately 500 residents, is northeast of Gladstone.
(See also the similar town/city of Maywood Park, Oregon.) In 1968, the 45-acre (18 ha) town/city tried unsuccessfully to annex to Gladstone. Although the above metros/cities are generally considered part of the much larger Portland urbane area, Gladstone, Oregon City, West Linn, and Milwaukie each possess the populace and manufacturing of a micropolis in their own right and this mostly dense sub-region contains a combined populace exceeding 100,000 citizens . Even with the Gladstone's adjacency to the town/city of Milwaukie, at no point do the two share political boundaries. This same set of Gladstone street names is used for the north-south chief streets in the center of Back Bay, Boston, but the origin of any connection to Gladstone is unknown Interstate 205 runs north-south along the easterly edge of the city, while Mc - Loughlin Boulevard (Oregon Route 99 - E) runs north-south through the side. Taken at the suggestion of surveyor Sidney Smyth, Judge Harvey Cross decided to name a number of Gladstone streets after American universities (e.
University of Exeter, Earl of Dartmouth, Earl of Clarendon). Portland Avenue, Gladstone's chief street, is the only divergence from this naming convention.
Named for the 1893 Interurban Electric Streetcar line that once traversed the street, it once transported passengers to and from Gladstone to Portland. The annual Gladstone Cultural Festival and parade in early August memorializes Gladstone's former status as a prominent Chautauqua destination.
The festival is held in Max Patterson Memorial City Park. Even with its mostly small geographic size, The town/city of Gladstone recognizes 17 separate parks and recreational areas. Some polling data suggests that Gladstone people are satisfied with town/city services they receive and a large majority consider Gladstone a especially "good/excellent" place to live. Perhaps reflecting this support, the police, fire, and medical services levy renewal measures were overwhelmingly allowed by voters in November 2012. Gladstone Public Library Gladstone is served by the Gladstone School District, which includes John Wetten Elementary School, Kraxberger Middle School, and Gladstone High School.
The town/city operates a library that is part of the Library Information Network of Clackamas County.
In 2012, the town/city council allowed plans for a new $10 million library, but ballot measures backed by the group Save Gladstone blocked the financing and assembly pending specific voter approval. The town/city then placed a new measure on the November 2014 ballot for a $6.4 million option. Gladstone is inside the Tri - Met transit district, and transit service in the town/city is provided by Tri - Met bus routes 32-Oatfield, 33-Mc - Loughlin/King Road, 34-Linwood/River Road, and 79-Clackamas/Oregon City, as well as rush-hour express route 99-Macadam/Mc - Loughlin.
"Oregon Transportation Map for the City of Gladstone" (PDF).
"Oregon State Fair".
"GLADSTONE HISTORY".
City of Gladstone official website.
"Brief History of Oregon City".
Official City of Oregon City website.
"Parks & Recreation Information" (PDF).
Official City of Gladstone Website.
"History of Gladstone Part 2".
Gladstone Historical Society.
"History of Gladstone Part 4".
Gladstone Historical Society.
Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press.
"Climate Summary for Gladstone, Oregon".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Number of Inhabitants: Oregon" (PDF).
"Pennsylvania: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Gladstone (city), Oregon".
"Gladstone Cultural Festival".
Promotional website for the Gladstone Cultural Festival.
"Gladstone City Police Services Levy Renewal Measure (November 2012)".
"Gladstone Fire and Medical Services Operating Levy Measure (November 2012)".
"Gladstone voters approve renewal of police and fire levies".
"Questions and Answers about the Gladstone School Bond" (PDF).
"Gladstone Schools refinances bonds, saving taxpayers thousands".
"Meet the measure: Gladstone 3-413 will decide fate of new library".
"Gladstone City Library Bond Measure (November 201".
"Gladstone seeks voter approval to move forward with new, scaled-down library plan".
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City of Gladstone (official website) Gladstone Historical Society Entry for Gladstone in the Oregon Blue Book Municipalities and communities of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States County seat: Oregon City Barlow Canby Estacada Gladstone Happy Valley Johnson City Lake Oswego Milwaukie Molalla Oregon City Portland Rivergrove Sandy Tualatin West Linn Wilsonville
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