[PLUG] Happy Birthday, Portland!

[Prutzer]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:04:26 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>  On this day in 1851 the City of Portland was incorporated, making it the
>second incorporated community, after Oregon City, in the Oregon Territory.
By this time, Florida had been inhabited by the Spanish for over 300
years. 


>  A toss of a coin between Asa Lovejoy from Boston and Francis Pettygrove of
>Portland, Maine later in the year determined the city's name. But, because
>of the clusters of tree stumps between log cabins there, travelers passing
>through continued to call the community "Stumptown".
Not to mention the removed portions of anatomy Loggers shared due to
mishaps.

>  The stumps have been replaced with street repair and building erection.
>And, no, Vera Katz was not the mayor then.
Even though she looks and thinks as if she had been.

>  Portland: "The City That Woks".
Let's make Portland Katz-less, Vote Libertarian

>Rich
Harry
Dont immanentize the eschaton