Lloyd Center Mall and Ralph Lloyd’s Eastside
Lloyd Center Mall started, as Portland often does, with a plot of land that kept getting re-described, until it finally agreed to cooperate at all in the end.
In 1868, Ben Holladay – the California transportation magnate nicknamed the “Stagecoach King” – arrived in Oregon, built the first part of railroad between Portland and California, and bought real estate just north of Sullivan’s Gulch.
He lost those holdings in the depression of 1874, but his name stayed behind, stapled to the map…