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Join lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford on a tour through the origins of the largest city in the state, dark corners and all.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cities#:~:text=The%20earliest%20known%20city%20is,in%20the%20society%20of%20%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk.
https://www.thecollector.com/first-cities-human-civilization-oldest-cities/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Overton_(Portland_founder)
https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2016/05/one-history-sleuth-s-radical-theory-everything-we-know-about-how-portland-began-is-wrong
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/overton_william/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1873
https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/portland-fire-1873/
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Join lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford on a tour through the origins of the largest city in the state, dark corners and all.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cities#:~:text=The%20earliest%20known%20city%20is,in%20the%20society%20of%20%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk.
https://www.thecollector.com/first-cities-human-civilization-oldest-cities/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Overton_(Portland_founder)
https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2016/05/one-history-sleuth-s-radical-theory-everything-we-know-about-how-portland-began-is-wrong
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/overton_william/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1873
https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/portland-fire-1873/

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