What's in a Name?
- New low-income housing complex in Northeast Portland is named after couple with long legacy
- When a Portland businessman patented a new kind of screw, it changed how quickly cars could be made
- How a mistake in the 1960s gave a High Cascades lake the name of Boo Boo
- How infrastructure and a name change helped transform Lake Oswego: 'They literally could not give away lake front property'
- How a former town called Jennyopolis became the site of Oregon's first reported murder
- Left naked and afraid: The story behind how John Day River earned its name
More What's in a Name? Stories
- How a blacksmith came to name Coburg, Oregon
- What's now Longview was once just swampy farm land. Then a deep-pocketed timber tycoon came to town
- How a squirrel bridge in Longview turned into a city's love for rodents
- What that No. 2 means on school pencils
- A three-week fight for survival: How Starvation Creek got its name
- How Washington came to be named after the first US president
- Where the 'X' in PDX comes from
- The theories behind the name 'Amboy' in Washington state