Recently my grrrl J and I went to Council Crest Park in Portland. Council Crest is thought to be the highest point in Portland at 1073 feet above sea level. This spot was originally called Talbot's Mountain, after its pioneer settlers, but was also once known as Glass Hill and later called Fairmount, the name of the road that encircles it. According to legend, it got its name because it was here that Native Americans held meetings and built signal fires. The Portland Streetcar, in the old days, used to bring citydwellers up here to enjoy the view and play at an amusement park. You can see all the major volcanoes from this vantage point. Mt. St. Helen's is behind me.
Monkey in a tree!
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That's cool that you know some of the history of the naming of Council Crest. If that story is accurate, I like that the place held onto a name indicating that white people were not the first people there, and reminding us that the history of those hills goes way beyond our white peoples' time in the West.
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