After a brief period of hiding along the river as the ship cleared port, he joined the small, but growing African American community in Portland.

[6] When Flowers moved to Portland, she and husband Allen joined the city’s small African American community, which numbered fewer than 500 people.

[3] Flowers and her husband purchased and built several houses in the old Lower Albina Neighborhood; these properties were located close to the building named in her honor in the Lloyd District.

[8] Allen Ervin Flowers famously constructed a road on NE Schuyler, becoming Portland's first Black developer in the process, to ensure that Louisa could safely wheel her baby buggy to Union Avenue.

[2] Flowers was instrumental in establishing Portland’s Black community on the east side of the Willamette River and developing the lower Albina area.