Hosford-Abernethy is a neighborhood in the inner Southeast section of
Portland, Oregon
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. It borders
Buckman and
Sunnyside on the north,
Richmond
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on the east,
Brooklyn
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and
Creston-Kenilworth on the south, and (across the
Willamette River
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)
Downtown Portland
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...
and
South Portland on the west.
Hosford-Abernethy was named in the 1970s for two schools in the neighborhood, Hosford Middle School (commemorating early Portland resident and Methodist minister
Chauncey Hosford Chauncey Osborne Hosford
(December 27, 1820 – 1911) was an American pioneer and Methodist missionary in Oregon Country.
Biography
He was born in Lexington Heights, New York to the highly religious Willis and Lucia Hosford. Hosford came to Oreg ...
) and Abernethy Elementary School
[http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools-c/pages/abernethy/] (commemorating fellow Methodist minister and Provisional Governor of the
Oregon Territory
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,
George Abernethy
George Abernethy (October 7, 1807 – March 2, 1877) was an American politician, pioneer, notable entrepreneur, and first governor of Oregon under the provisional government based in the Willamette Valley, an area later a part of the American sta ...
).
The north central area of the neighborhood, with its distinctive X-shaped street pattern, is known as
Ladd's Addition
Ladd's Addition is an inner southeast historic district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is Portland's oldest planned residential development, and one of the oldest in the western United States. The district is known in Portland for a diago ...
.
The
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
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is located on the riverfront of Hosford-Abernethy, at the southern end of the
Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade
The Eastbank Esplanade (officially Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade) is a pedestrian and bicycle path along the east shore of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. Running through the Kerns, Buckman, and Hosford-Abernethy neighb ...
.
References
External links
Hosford-Abernethey Neighborhood Association websiteHOSFORD-ABERNETHY: A brief history, by Val BallestremHosford-Abernethy Street Tree Inventory Report
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon
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