Laurelhurst's History In Colors
When we saw this map, it looked like holiday lights, wrapping paper, tinsel and presents.
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Look closer. The colors in this map show how
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Laurelhurst grew over the years.
Here's the legend for this map.
Brown is 1910 and earlier
Dark green is 1911-1913.
Dark blue is 1914-1918, the years of the Great War.
Light blue is 1919-1924, the start of the Roaring '20s.
Red is 1925-1929, the peak years of the Boom.
Yellow is 1930-1940, the Great Depression.
Pink, light green, purple, and gray are later years.
Here are the NW and NE quads. Can you find your house?
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Here are the SW and SE quads.
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