Community
"There was a large group in the early days. Some people lived down on the Willamette River in houseboats. Flooding wiped them out and they moved to the Albina area along Union Avenue. Mr. Geist said he would live anywhere but San Francisco."
Story told to Wanda June Schwabauer by Ed and Bob Geist on April 11, 1974. (Used with permission of the Richard Schwabauer family.)
Where They Lived
While the Volga Germans settled in many parts of Portland and the surrounding area, the most concentrated area of settlement was in the Albina neighborhood in Northeast Portland.
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