Maps of Interest

The Alexander Ceres Diagrammatic Map

This Map appears on Page 72 of Labbe's Fares Please!. I added the red dot to represent my house.

The map is correct downtown where it simply followed established streets. Reading from north to south, the line came out of Portland on Corbett Avenue to Hamilton. Just past Hamilton, you can see that it turns into tracks, and veers off to the west into what was the side of Portland's west hills, and it stayed below the SPRR line. In Fulton Park, where you see the Powerhouse and the little spur, it got more difficult to represent what the line actually did.

Compare this black and white map to the Portland Paving Map (above), and you'll see that the F Line curved around with the SPRR a bit before heading south. It would have been hard to show the spur, the line, and the powerhouse all in that Fulton Park area on this scale.

Unfortunately, some people read the map to say the trolley went up Corbett Ave the whole way, and then turned into Fulton Park. Also the map shows the F Line cutting across the the Jewish Cemetery, and that just did not happen. We don't fault Ceres for the representation, it's pretty good. We don't know what map or maps he worked from, although it would be nice to know. Did Labbe have a engineering map, or a feeling for where the line went, and just summarized it to Ceres in a sketch, who then abstracted it onto some working map of the roads and river?

The 1894 Portland Paving Map

On this map published in 1894, one can see a line that corresponds to our 'Green Line' to Greenwood Hills Cemetery.

Ignore most of the streets on the map below! This early plat of South Burlingame is goofy/flat because they did it on paper without regard for terrain. Some of these streets never became streets!

Stephens Creek is not shown on this early map!

The Green reference line was added to this 1894 Portland Paving Map, hightlighting the Trolley line, in black. Mainly, note that the line goes into and through 'Greenwood (Hills) Cemetery' toward River View Cemetery.

Lewis & Dryden map(s)

We first saw this map in the Multnomah County Archives. On close examination, we noticed an Electric Powerhouse was shown on it!

We are in the process of getting good scan of the whole thing.