Born out of history, this modern, local spirit thrives: Vanport 1948
Vanport 1948 This content was bring out in partnership with Fuego Fino and Vanport 1948 . Once the secondly largest city in Oregon , bustling and lively , Vanport had grievance of businesses , include school , a police post , and a movie theater — which was not common for the time . It sit on about 650 acres of swampland behind a dike . Then , in May of 1948 , due to labored rainfall and late snowmelt from the winter season , the dike breach under increasing insistence , and a 10 - foot wall of water wash across the area , flooding it ....