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She stood for the Australian Senate. She only received 5% of the votes and did not win a Senate seat. She stood unsuccessfully again in 1910, 1913, 1914 and 1917. A Federal parliamentary seat is named after her in Melbourne.
Portland
The fine bay of Portland and nearby Cape Bridgewater were indirectly named by Captain Grant in 1800 on the Brig named Lady Nelson. Grant explored this part of the coast a year or so before Matthew Flinders and Nicholas Baudin. James Grant was receiving his orders from the Duke of Portland and so Governor King in Sydney named the bay Portland after looking at Grant’s maps. Nicholas Baudin, the French explorer also named the area and called it Terra Bonaparte. After Major Thomas Mitchell’s explorations in 1836 his Australia Felix region became known as the Western Districts (of NSW). From 1803 some American whalers established summer whaling camps along Portland Bay but there was no permanent white settlement until Edward Henty arrived here from Launceston in November 1834. His brother Francis arrived to settle in December 1834. Thus began the white settlement of Victoria almost a year before Fawkner and Batman settled on Port Phillip Bay. (John Fawkner and John Batman also moved from Launceston because of the land shortages there with Fawkner settling in August 1835 near Hobson’s Bay and Batman in June 1835 near the Yarra although he personally did not settle until April 1836.)
Edward Henty landed with 13 cattle, 4 bullocks, 5 pigs, 2 turkeys, vines, plants, seeds, and apple and pear trees. Francis arrived with dairy cows and Merino sheep a month later. In 1836 Major Mitchell called in to the Henty’s property where Portland now stands. Henty had already explored inland by then and he had discovered Darlots Creek and Lake Condah. Three of Henty’s pastoral runs were near the later town of Merino. The Hentys also earnt income from whaling but Edward did not even begin any whaling until 1836. Edward built his first house on what is now Bentinck Street. This was swept away when the town was surveyed in 1840 by Charles Tyers the government surveyor. By this time Edward and Francis had been joined by their other brothers Richard and John. It was a Henty son (Richard) who was the first white male born in Victoria and Edward Henty was the first to move inland in Victoria when he moved to near Merino in 1837. But many now assert that the first white settlement (not permanent or farming or pastoral settlement) in Victoria was by William Dutton with his fishery (sealing) and whaling station near Portland in 1833. Dutton had camped here in a temporary house for summer months since 1828. He also had whaling camps on Kangaroo Island. He did not spend all the year at Portland but his whaling camp was a permanent structure. Dutton also had early whaling camps at Port Fairy. When Edward Henty arrived in November 1834 Dutton was already there and assisted Henty to get established. But does this Dutton claim really detract from Edward Henty’s claim to be the first permanent white settler on the land in Victoria?
The Henty brothers had illegally squatted on land and despite having 60 acres under crop, sheep grazing at Merino, two houses in both Portland and at Merino and 53 whites living on the land (46 males including employees and 7 females) Governor Gipps of Sydney was not impressed. The Henty brothers claimed compensation for their development of the land and a grant of some of the land. Thus began many years of legal battles between the government and the Henty brothers. Gipps decided to send Police to Portland to remove Henty from the land but this never happened. In 1843 the government softened and gave a grant of 83 acres at £2 per acre; town acres at £100 per acre; and compensation of £118 for their buildings, including the house which was destroyed to create Bentinck Street. The Henty brothers declined this offer and the dispute continued. Eventually the Henty brothers got legal leases and they purchased freehold land. Merino Downs station is still in the hands of Henty descendants.
Government land in Portland was sold in 1840 with 70 town blocks being purchased immediately and many surrounding “suburban” blocks. Pastoral leases for inland areas were authorised from 1839. By 1842 the town had a temporary Presbyterian, Anglican and Wesleyan Methodist churches, a cemetery, a newspaper, a school house, hotels ( the Commercial Inn, the Portland Hotel, the Portland Inn and the Steam Packet Inn), a jetty and commercial enterprises. Customs duties were levied on the port trade. The main street along the foreshore Bentinck Street was named after the family name of the Dukes of Portland. The Customs House was completed in 1850; the Court House was built 1845; the Catholic Church 1848; the Presbyterian Church 1849; the Botanical Gardens began 1854; the Anglican Church 1856; a tramway to Heywood opened 1860; the Town Hall opened 1865 and a new Wesleyan Church opened 1865. In terms of population Portland grew quickly with around 1,200 residents in 1851 and around 3,000 by 1854. Today Portland has 10,700 residents.
As the major regional port railway lines from the interior were especially important to Portland. The tramway to Heywood opened in 1860 but soon became a railway line. The Portland Railway Company was formed in the town in 1872 and they raised funds for a railway to Hamilton and another to Coleraine. The company folded one year later. But the government built a railway line to Hamilton in 1878 and in 1889 they proposed a railway to the Wimmera - Horsham and Mildura. The first section of the railway from Hamilton to Horsham opened in 1911 to Cavendish and the line only got to Horsham in 1920! Meantime a rail link to Mt Gambier across the border was demanded by the residents of both Portland and Mt Gambier. The SA government opposed the idea and resisted for many years. The rail line was first suggested in 1900 and the Victorian government did a survey for the line in 1901. But it was 1912 before the two states agreed on rail lines crossing the border at Mt Gambier and at Pinnaroo. Work started on the line from Heywood to Mt Gambier in 1914. The line finally opened in October 1917.
Princeland.
Links between Mt Gambier and Portland had always existed. Captain Grant had charted both areas as had Flinders and Baudin. In 1839 Edward Henty tried to establish a sheep run at Mt Gambier but the SA government ordered Henty off the land. They then allowed Evelyn Sturt to become the first landowner near Mt Gambier. Many pastoral runs near the border crossed the border. Robertsons of Struan had land both sides of the border as did the Austens of Penola. In 1862 in response to perceived financial neglect of the Mt Gambier region by the SA government, and the desire for separation from Melbourne in Victoria, the Princeland movement emerged. Edward Henty was behind the formation of the West Victorian Separation league to create a new colony with the capital in Mt Gambier and the main port at Portland. The colony was to be named after Prince Albert (Princeland) and a petition was sent to the Colonial Office and to Queen Victoria. 1,500 signatures were collected but the proposal required the agreement of two states so it languished in London. The movement started with a report in the Portland newspaper on 2 January 1862 followed by another in the Advertiser on 4 January 1862. The new province would have 24 million acres from Victoria and 4 million from SA with a population of 74,000 and an annual revenue income of £330,000. The Geelong newspaper supported the movement but jealousy of Portland was reported as the cause of opposition to the proposal from the residents of Port Fairy. People in Portland argued that of the £300,000 paid in tax and revenue to the government in Melbourne only £100,000 was ever spent in the region and of £36,000 raised in Mt Gambier only £16,000 was ever spent there. Public meetings were held in towns from Penshurst to Penola with Mr R Horne arguing for the proposal and soliciting signatures for the petition. The SA government to give an additional member of parliament to the Mt Gambier district and proposed the upgrading of roads and the building of a courthouse, police station and Post Office in Port MacDonnell and elsewhere. The Border Watch newspaper in Mt Gambier opposed the idea of Princeland but suggested the colonies ought to have a federal parliament and a union a bit like the American Union which was at that time fighting a Civil War over secession! The SA parliament passed a motion opposing secession of Mt Gambier in May 1862. By October English newspapers were reporting no widespread support of the secession movement in SA and Vic and so it was unlikely that Westminster and the Queen would consider a petition which was not widely supported by the local people or the state governments. Thus the Princeland secession movement died in October 1862 but the term was used in the region for the next twenty years.
Today's story and sketch "by me" again we caught up with Binali Gofish the official steward for "EBRA" Blimp Race which started a few weeks ago in San Clemente California, and now has arrived in Portland Oregon, to the delight of thousands of fans, who have been waiting to see their favorite Blimper. The official scoring put the all female alien
team from Mars sponsored by "Pink Spirit Moon Pies", who you see just crossing over the bay bridge, as they head off
North to Seattle. There are sever weather warnings for the northwest tonight, snow fall up to eleven feet, that should
not bother these fearless Blimper's, as they will fly above the clouds at fifty thousand feet. When we last checked
with Binali he reported that while doing a safety check on the team from the Saturn moon likiti, known to their fans
as "Team Big Pink", who are actually very large, as their name suggests, they are a race that resemble
very large pink tongues with eyes and arms. Binali confiscated twenty one Stun Guns, and Seven Deflater Rockets,
from team "Big Pink". The Blog will keep our readers up to date on any important race news, confiscated weapons,
or which team may be dropping moon pies to the crowds below.
Until next time Taa ta the Rod Blog
You can not start life over, but you can finish life the way you want.
Rod
New to Bristol in 1993 this Leyland Olympian could now be considered something of a 'vintage' and is still solidering on having recently been transferred back to First Devon & Cornwall although it spent some time at Weymouth as pictured above with a wonderful outlook from the top of Portland.
This view, photographed from near W. Burnside Street and SW 12th Avenue, compresses nearly half a century of Portland commercial architecture into a single composition.
Left to right:
819 SW Oak Street — Originally constructed in 1949 as the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company's Telephone Toll Building, additional stories were completed in 1953 and 1957.
Clad in white stone and designed in a restrained postwar Modern style, the building expressed the Bell System's confidence in the expanding national long-distance telephone network. Its orderly façade of marble panels and carefully proportioned windows reflects an era when public utilities sought to project permanence and institutional dignity.
735 SW Harvey Milk Street (formerly 735 SW Stark Street) — The Pacific Northwest Bell Communications Center and Oregon headquarters, completed in 1970. Designed in a refined Brutalist idiom, the complex is characterized by deeply recessed green-tinted windows, monumental precast concrete fins, and a powerful sculptural massing that expresses both permanence and technological confidence. The building housed Pacific Northwest Bell's Oregon headquarters and advanced communications equipment, including electronic switching systems that marked the Bell System's transition from electromechanical to electronic telecommunications. In 1971, the public lobby received Lee Kelly's monumental 30-foot stainless-steel sculpture Urbanscape, commissioned specifically for the building.
407 SW Broadway
The former Bank of California Building, completed in 1969. Designed in an elegant late Corporate Modern style, the 15-story tower is distinguished by its soaring white precast concrete fins, deeply recessed green-tinted windows, imported English Elterwater slate, copper roof, landscaped courtyard, and richly appointed interiors of marble and exotic woods.
It represents one of the last great expressions of a modernism that treated the office tower as a monumental sculptural object, relying on bold massing, deep shadows, and luxurious materials rather than historical ornament or Brutalist concrete right angles to achieve architectural distinction.
Opened as one of Portland's most prestigious business addresses, it housed the Bank of California's Portland headquarters together with leading professional firms including Travelers Insurance and Price Waterhouse. More recently renamed OnPoint Plaza, the building has attracted attention as a potential candidate for conversion to data-center use, reflecting the changing economics of downtown office buildings.
917 SW Oak Street (formerly 383 SW Oak)
The Fitzpatrick Building, completed in 1923, occupies the foreground. Its restrained Classical Revival façade, executed in buff brick with terra-cotta ornament, represents the optimism of Portland's final great pre-Depression building boom. Listed by The Oregonian among Portland's "Notable Structures Erected or Commenced During the Past Year," it has continuously adapted to changing tenants for more than a century, from attorneys, consultants, and political campaigns to literary organizations, nonprofit groups, publishers, galleries, and wellness businesses.
A century of changing commerce
Together these buildings tell parallel stories of Portland's commercial, financial, and technological evolution.
The earliest is the Fitzpatrick Building, one of The Oregonian's "Notable Structures Erected or Commenced During the Past Year" for 1922. During the following century it continually adapted to changing tenants, including attorneys, management consultants, advertising agencies, political campaigns, Oregon Legal Services' Native American Program, publishers, arts organizations, the Independent Publishing Resource Center, Write Around Portland, wellness businesses, and numerous nonprofit organizations. It exemplifies the adaptable, human-scaled commercial building that has long sustained Portland's civic and creative life.
In 1949, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph established its new Telephone Toll Building at 819 SW Oak, creating one of the city's principal nodes in the Bell System's nationwide long-distance network. As demand for telephone service expanded after World War II, the building grew vertically in 1953 and 1957, mirroring the explosive growth of American telecommunications and the central role of Portland in the Pacific Northwest's communications infrastructure.
The optimism of Portland's postwar business community reached another milestone in 1969 with the opening of the new Bank of California Building at Broadway and Washington. Hailed by The Oregonian as "one of the city's handsomest new structures," it became one of downtown's premier business addresses.
Beneath its sculptural white precast concrete façade were lavish interiors finished with imported marble, English Elterwater slate, exotic hardwoods, commissioned artworks, landscaped courtyards, executive dining rooms, and sweeping views over the city.
The building reflected an era when major financial institutions regarded architecture as an expression of corporate identity and permanence. In addition to the bank's Portland headquarters, it housed prestigious professional tenants including Travelers Insurance and Price Waterhouse, symbolizing the confidence of Portland's legal, financial, and business establishment at the close of the 1960s.
More than half a century later, renamed OnPoint Plaza, it is being evaluated for possible conversion to a data center—a striking illustration of downtown Portland's changing economic geography.
Just one year later, Pacific Northwest Bell entered the electronic age with its new Communications Center and Oregon headquarters at 735 SW Stark (now Harvey Milk) Street
The Brutalist complex housed executive offices together with advanced communications equipment and, in 1971, welcomed visitors with Lee Kelly's monumental stainless-steel sculpture Urbanscape, installed across a cast-concrete lobby wall.
The subsequent installation of electronic switching equipment marked the transition from electromechanical telephony to modern electronic communications, making the building one of Oregon's most important telecommunications facilities.
Today these buildings remain standing, although their roles have changed dramatically. The Bell facilities continue to serve communications infrastructure behind increasingly secure façades.
The former Bank of California Building, once a monument to corporate banking and professional life, may soon house the digital infrastructure of the artificial intelligence era.
The Fitzpatrick Building continues its century-long tradition of accommodating small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and creative enterprises.
Together they preserve, in stone, concrete, brick, and terra cotta, a remarkably complete record of Portland's commercial ambitions and technological evolution across more than one hundred years.
The only operational sternwheel steamboat surviving in Oregon is the Portland, moored at Portland, Oregon, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This was my final stop before returning home. I'm looking forward to visiting again, I hope the weather is a bit better next time!
Dawn this past Saturday morning taken from Pittock Mansion, looking out over downtown Portland. There were faint wisps of fog that teased us and left us wanting more. Meanwhile, if we just look left over the North Portland and Saint John's neighborhoods, they were covered in a low blanket of fog. I'm glad the foreground shrubs and trees have been pruned back, last year they killed the shot from up here. Thanks for looking and have a great week friends!
Portland and Western's Oregon Electric Express trundles south towards it's destination of Albany, OR through the Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge.
We've not been to Weymouth & Portland for a while. When we left Poole today it was torrential rain, but in Portland it was lovely and sunny!
10.03.2024
Decided to dust off the camera and see what the 'storms' were doing at Portland Bill yesterday.
Didn't need to dust off the camera as the strong winds and sea spray soon did its bit.
The wind was picking up so much spray that it was impossible to get a decent shot at 'The Pulpit' side so spent most of the afternoon slightly more sheltered.
Portland Railroad Depot built for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in 1850 abandoned in 1970.
Skies clear after a prolonged spell of torrential rain on Portland island, Dorset. Inevitably, puddles have formed, which I use to my advantage. The beam of the lighthouse appears twice: in the sky and in the water. Nikon D800, Nikkor 20/2.8.
Amtrak's Portland Extra is seen making one of it's 2 day a week runs between North Station and Southampton Street Yard. Here we see it passing Yawkey heading eastbound to South Station before going into Southampton Street Yard
Another shot from our tip down to Dorset. This was taken in Portland, just by Portland bill lighthouse.
I have never felt more at home in my life than I do in Portland, OR. For BricksCascade 2018 I wanted to build something inspired my my adopted hometown.
One of the iconic features of PDX is the White Stag sign (formerly the Made in Oregon sign and originally an advertisement for a sugar company) above the West end of the Burnside Bridge. This sign is very clearly the inspiration for this build, a sort of deconstructed version of the sign.
The base is a little rough, but it's been awhile since I attempted landscaping with system bits. We'll get there!
A woman is placed in restraints after being arrested at a protest opposing a right wing group "The Patriot Prayer Movement," in downtown Portland Oregon September 10. 2017. Several hundred protesters descended in to downtown Portland to oppose the group and scuffles broke out as the right-wing group were escorted by police. (Photo by Natalie Behring for AFP)