Brentwood-Darlington is a neighborhood on the southern edge of

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, bordering SE 45th Avenue to the west, SE Duke Street to the north, and SE 82nd Avenue to the east. The county line separating

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from

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forms most of the neighborhood's (and the city's) southern boundary, though small portions of the neighborhood and the city extend into

. (Conversely, some areas in the neighborhood in Multnomah County are outside Portland city limits.) Roughly, the southern boundary is SE Harney Drive on the eastern one-fourth, and SE Clatsop Street on the other three-quarters. Th
Brentwood-Darlington Neighborhood Association
dates to 1974 when it was founded as the Errol Heights Improvement Association, serving the neighborhoods of Errol Heights, Brentwood, Darlington, Harney Park, Woodmere, and Crystal Springs. In 2013, the Brentwood-Darlington Neighborhood Association held a 'visioning' process to determine future plans for the neighborhood. The Brentwood-Darlington Community Center, run by a local non-profit agency, Impact NW and provides early childhood and other services to families in the community. Schools in the area includ
Woodmere Elementary SchoolWhitman Elementary SchoolLane Middle SchoolACCESS Middle School
an
Community Transition Project School
The neighborhood is home to several large scale urban gardening projects, including the Brentwood Community Garden, which was improved and expanded in 2010 through a grant from The Home Depot and Fiskars. It is also home to the Portland State University Learning Gardens Laboratory. Brentwood-Darlington includes Brentwood Park (1951), Errol Heights Natural Area (1966), and

Hazeltine Park Hazeltine Park is a park located at 5416 Southeast Flavel Drive, in Portland, Oregon's Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood, in the United States. The park, acquired in 2001, is named after Dick Hazeltine, who is considered the neighborhood's "foun ...

(2001), which was named after longtime neighborhood resident and leader, Dick Hazeltine. In 2010, a new, full-service grocery store opened in the neighborhood.

Demographics

As of the 2010 Census Brentwood-Darlington has a population of 12,994. The resents of the area identify as 72.0% White, 10.4% Asian, 3.6% Black, 1.6% American Indian, and 5.4% are mixed race. Of the population 13.9% identify as Hispanic or Latino.

History

Brentwood-Darlington started as single family homesteads in 1882. The streets were divided into a grid pattern with long blocks with many of the roads leading to the nearby town of Milwaukie rather than Portland. The

Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known as the Donation Land Act, was a statute enacted by the United States Congress in late 1850, intended to promote homestead settlements in the Oregon Territory. It followed the Distribution-Preem ...

granted settlers to unsurveyed land for promotion of settlement across the

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. Settlers of the area took advantage of the land claim act and George Wills, a Baptist preacher and farmer eventually claimed ownership to the majority of the land in the area. in 1920 the Apostolic Faith International Headquarters formerly the Apostolic Faith Meeting Park was established World War II brought an influx of people into the area and lead to rapid growth in the community. It was a common to see homeowners run small businesses out of their homes during this time. As an unincorporated neighborhood of Portland many homes were inadequately constructed and roads in a state of disarray due to the lack of services in the area. Yearly grass and hazel brush fires along with runaway fires from a local sawmill lead to the first fire department to the area in 1947. In 1974 Brentwood-Darlington was made an officially designated neighborhood under the name Errol Heights. Brentwood-Darlington received many attempts of annexation into Portland in 1961, 1971, and 1977 but the efforts made failed due to opposition of the residents of the area. Annexation attempts were revived in the 1980s due to concerns of pollution and inadequate water service and the area was successfully annexed into Portland in 1986. The former name of Errol Heights was changed to Brentwood-Darlington in February, 1986.

Parks

* Brentwood Park (1951) *

Errol Heights Park Errol Heights Park, also known as Errol Heights Natural Area, is a public park in Portland, Oregon. Description Located in southeast Portland's Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood, the park includes Oregon ash wetlands and Errol Creek which fee ...

(1966) *

Flavel Park Flavel Park is a public park in Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the list of cities in Oregon, largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamet ...

(1953) *

Harney Park Harney Park is a park at the intersection of Southeast 67th Avenue and Harney Street, in Portland, Oregon's Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood, in the United States. Description The park, named after William S. Harney, was acquired in 1979. ''T ...

(1979) *

(2001)

References

External links

Guide to Brentwood Darlington Neighborhood
(PortlandNeighborhood.com)

(Steven Beaven, ''The Oregonian'', May 3, 2013)
Alternative middle school moves into Brentwood Darlington Community Center
(Merry MacKinnon, ''The Bee'', September 2, 2006) *
rentwood-Darlington Street Tree Inventory Report
{{Portland neighborhoods Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon