Richmond is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...
. It borders
Sunnyside on the north,
Mt. Tabor and
South Tabor on the east,
Creston-Kenilworth on the south, and
Hosford-Abernethy on the west.
The northern edge of the neighborhood is part of the
Hawthorne District.
Neighborhood parks include Sewallcrest Park (1940) and Ivon Community Garden (1978).
Richmond is named after Richmond Kelly, son of an early immigrant from
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
who held one of the donation land claims in the area, Rev.
Clinton Kelly.
The Richmond neighborhood is home to Richmond Elementary School, the first of three which comprise the Japanese Magnet Program of
Portland Public Schools. JMP students continue on to Mt. Tabor Middle School and then to
Grant High School in the Grant Park neighborhood.
References
External links
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Guide to Richmond Neighborhood(PortlandNeighborhood.com)
Richmond Neighborhood Plan(Portland Bureau of Planning, 1994)
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ichmond Street Tree Inventory Report
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon
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