Portland is a city of neighborhoods, each rich in its own history.  Some, like Sellwood, Albina, and Multnomah, started out as separate cities; others, as country crossroads, or stops on interurban lines.  One would think that, in a city infatuated with history as Portland, neighborhood history would be well documented, but it is not.  Apart from historian Eugene Snyder’s 1979 book Portland Names and Neighborhoods, there is not a single comprehensive work on Portland’s neighborhoods.  There are a few works on individual neighborhoods, but most of the history of Portland’s neighborhoods has yet to be written.  There are a few neighborhood based history groups, but no organized, comprehensive effort at preserving the history of all Portland’s neighborhoods.