The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, commonly also known as the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and officially known as the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fa
Balloon over Guild's Lake at the Expo
Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia
Overview of the grounds
Groundbreaking ceremony of the Expo.
Guild's Lake
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Guild's Lake was a flood-prone lowland near the confluence of Balch Creek with the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Indigenous Multnomah people established villages on nearby Sauvie Islan
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition
…Park, now Sellwood Park and Oaks Park; and Hawthorne Park, now an industrial area. The western sites considered were City Park, now Washington Park; and Guild's Lake in the Balch Creek watershed. Guild's Lake was a site "everyone in Portland was vaguely aware of ... [though] no one on the site selection subcommittee…
Exposition balloon over the lake in 1905