Talk:Milwaukie, Oregon
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I removed the following, which doesn't make much sense:
- Milwaukie but it failed to realize the growth that many nearby cities attained and that Lot Whitcomb anticipated, until fears of the hazard of powder houses built along the railroad, along with general disatisfaction with the condition of streets energized the people of the town to incorporate, on February 4, 1903.
In ?? a gas station business owner on McLoughlin Blvd brought in an authentic World War II B17G bomber to help attract customers; today this serves as a landmark.
[[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 04:29, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Living History Day
The virtual schoolhouse web site is "funded by the National School-To-Work Office, a joint initiative of the US Departments of Education and Labor." The Milwaukie High School Living History Day is a project on the site. This constitutes national recognition. ABLsaurusRex 22:22, 4 August 2007 (UTC) And, of course, there is the minor matter of the mention of the event by the President of the United States during the ground breaking for the WWII Memorial [1] ABLsaurusRex 22:39, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Origins of the name Milwaukie
- I grew up in Milwaukie, and a name on the feed mill that once (still? haven't been in 15 years - don't recall) stood at what is now 21st Ave and Lake Rd against the railroad tracks was labeled "Milkawea Feed Mill". I was always told that the town was named Milwaukie after the Native American name Milkawea. Unfortunately, I can find no Google reference to that name or the variant "Milkwea". Regardless, I dispute the name origin as a variant of "Milwaukee" in Wisconsin. Anyone have more info or can cite a credible reference to the Wisconsin origin? Mmoyer 21:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, there's the Harvey Starkweather interview in the Library of Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpa/30010924.html , done by a WPA worker in 1939. Harvey, born in 1868, spent all but three years of his life in Milwaukie and Portland. He didn't dispute the Wisconsin origin, although he alleged (with some justice) that the "-ie" spelling was just as good as the "-ee". (In fact, Milwaukeeans in Wisconsin hadn't settled on a single spelling when Milwaukie was incorporated.)--Orange Mike 18:43, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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- The USGS GNIS placenames database says "Milwaukee" is a variant spelling of "Milwaukie", Oregon: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1166682 ..for what it's worth. I don't know if it is named after the Wisconsin city/river or not. Pfly 03:16, 17 November 2006 (UTC) ..oh and check out the variant names for Milwaukee, Wisconsin: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1577901 ..that's the longest list of variant names I've seen! Pfly 03:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
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- The City of Milwaukie cites the Wisconsin city as the source of the name [2], although they seem to be unaware that the city of Milwaukee was once spelled its name with an "ie." This material from the Milwaukee (WI) Historical Society also supports the source of the Oregon city's name (and includes rough scans of the then-"Milwaukie Sentinel").[3] I'm going to remove the "probably" from the article - certainly the city itself is a reliable source. SixFourThree (talk) 17:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)SixFourThree
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