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May 2007 Board Meeting
Monday 4, 2007
6:30pm - 8:30pm

Board meetings are scheduled for the 4th Monday of the month at 6:30pm, however because of the Memorial Day Weekend the May meeting has been moved to Monday, June 4th.

For more information please contact: info@WilkesEastNA.org

Graffiti affects everyone It damages your property, and it impacts our community.

Help eliminate graffiti by reporting it immediately!

To file a complaint or report graffiti:

• Go to MyGresham and click the Create new issue button.
• Call Code Enforcement (24 hours) at 503-618-2463 or 503-618-2248 (graffiti)
• Fax Code Enforcement (24 hours) at 503-618-2309
• Email Code Enforcement at CodeCompliance@GreshamOregon.gov.

Please provide detailed information stating the nature of the complaint, address of the property, and the nearest cross street.

2007 Annual Neighborhood Cleanup July 14th!

Clean-up your home, garage, or yard at a bargain price and in the process support your neighborhood.

"Spring Clean Up" usually means you discover a lot of things you wish you could take to the dump! Well, now you don't have to take your junk anywhere! The dumpster is coming to you! Cost: $10.00 per household

A Walk with the Mayor

In March Wilkes East Neighborhood members shared a Walk with Mayor Shane Bemis, 2007 Council President Shirley Craddick, and City Staffer Eric Chambers.

Capri Terrace
Spring Neighborhood Watch Meeting
& Ice Cream Social

Sunday May 20, 2007
3:00pm - 5:00pm
16935 NE Oregon St.

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1874 Zimmerman House Gresham, Oregon. Click to enlarge

Zimmerman Heritage Farm A lasting vestige of East Multnomah County's agricultural roots

The historic Zimmerman House Museum is a delightful, turn-of-the-century farmhouse situated in a rapidly urbanizing area of Northwest Gresham in East Multnomah County, Oregon. The farmhouse is located at 17111 NE Sandy Blvd on 5.98 acres, a remnant parcel of the original dairy farmstead that at one time extended over 600 acres of reclaimed bottom land along the Columbia River.

The Zimmerman Heritage Farm is our cultural heritage, a lasting vestige of East Multnomah County's agricultural roots. It offers the experience of "life as it really was" in the decades at the turn of the 20th century, reflecting the past through a mirror unique to the Zimmerman family's farming and domestic life.

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The Tale of Two Wilkes Neighborhoods

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Love, Heartbreak, and Renewal Local history says un the summer of 1845 Payton & Anna Wilkes and their seven children left Independence Missouri in a two-yolk oxen-drawn covered wagon and headed west on the Oregon Trail for Oregon.

They arrived by late fall after crossing the Cascade Mountains during a particularly strong snow storm and settled into their new life style in Oregon City. More than 3,000 wagons arrived in Oregon that year.

In 1850 their son William Wilkes took a Donation Land Claim on Sandy Road east of Portland.

The Donation Land Claim Act (DLC) became law on September 27, 1850 as a means to promote homestead settlements in the Oregon Territory (comprising the resent-day states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and part of Wyoming).

The Act granted 320 acres of designated areas free-of-charge to every unmarried male citizen eighteen or older, and 640 acres to every married couple arriving in the Oregon Territory before December 1, 1850. A total of 7,437 land claims were issued under the Act which expired in late 1855.

Soon after receiving his land, William gave up his claim after his wife died and headed to California to mine gold.

Rich with cash, William Wilkes returned to east Portland and purchased the Milton Frazer DLC (see photo above), which was located immediately to the east of his original claim. And that's why there are two Wilkes neighborhoods.

Wilkes, the original land claim. And, Wilkes East, the purchased land to the east of William Wilkes original claim.

William C Wilkes Click to enlarge

William C Wilkes grave Click to enlarge

Sarah A Wilkes Click to enlarge

To learn more about local history, read "Gresham, Stories of our Past". Available from the Gresham Historical Society, area book stores, and Amazon.com

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