Custom House Reconstruction

Historical marker location:

3455 Leif Erikson Drive, Astoria, Oregon

( Marker is on Leif Erikson Drive (U.S. 30) near 34th Street, on the left when traveling west.)

architecture houses residential buildings

The city of Portland, Oregon was named after Portland, Maine. The city's founder, Asa Lovejoy, had lived in Portland, Maine and wanted to name the new settlement after his former hometown.