Soul of Slabtown Walking Tour

This Walking Tour starts at the Northwest Library, but visits many locations.

This walking tour explores the layered history of Slabtown and the deeper story of how Portland’s growth reshaped a working-class neighborhood. Attendees can expect a look at sites connected to industry, innovation, resistance, and the forces that changed the area over time, including streetcar expansion, redlining, freeway projects, urban renewal, and grassroots resistance. It offers a focused, thoughtful perspective on how Slabtown has continually reinvented itself and the people who lived and labored there.