Multnomah (OR) countyMultnomah County är ett administrativt område i delstaten Oregon, USA. År 2010 hade countyt 735 334 invånare. Den administrativa huvudorten (county seat) är Portland. Översikt
Multnomah County i Oregon i USA
Arkiv: Multnomah County, Oregon Genealogy
HistorikMultnomah County (the thirteenth in Oregon Territory) was created on December 22, 1854, formed out of two other Oregon counties – the eastern part of Washington County and the northern part of Clackamas County. Its creation was a result of a petition earlier that year by businessmen in Portland complaining of the inconvenient location of the Washington County seat in Hillsboro and of the share of Portland tax revenues leaving the city to support Washington County farmers. Övrigthe county is named after the Chinookan word for the ”lower river”, Multnomah, Matlnomaq, máɬnumax̣ being interpretive English spellings of the same word. In Chinook Jargon, Ne-matlnomaq, means the ”place of matlnomaq” or the (singular) Ne-matlnomag, ”the lower river”, from the Oregon City Falls toward the Columbia river. |
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