Sellwood-Moreland is a neighborhood on a bluff overlooking the Willamette River in Southeast

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to the south. The neighborhood is linked to Southwest Portland across the Willamette River by the

Sellwood Bridge The Sellwood Bridge is a deck arch bridge that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The current bridge opened in 2016 and replaced a 1925 span that had carried the same name. The original bridge was Portland's first ...

, the southernmost of Portland's bridges.

History

Sellwood originated as an independent city and as a rival of nearby early Portland on the Donation Land Claim of Reverend

John Sellwood John Sellwood was a pioneer Episcopal minister who settled in the U.S. state of Oregon on a donation land claim on the east bank of the Willamette River upstream from Portland. Sellwood, born in England, was brought up and educated by his mother a ...

, who sold the claim in 1882 to the Sellwood Real Estate Company.Snyder, Eugene E.. Portland Names and Neighborhoods: Their Historic Origin. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1979. p. 202. The town of Sellwood was incorporated by the

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on February 25, 1889. It was annexed by Portland in 1893.

Features

Sellwood has an amusement park named

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along the river. A bike trail next to railroad tracks above the river is accessible from Sellwood, and links Milwaukie and downtown Portland. The

Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge is a city park of about in southeast Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located in a floodplain along the east bank of the Willamette River near Sellwood, the park is known for attracting a wide variety of birds. I ...

was established in 1988 and has allowed the preservation and protection of numerous species. Walking trails go through the park, traversing woods, meadow and marshland. Milwaukie Avenue and SE 13th Avenue are the locations of many restaurants,

Moreland Theater Moreland Theater is a single-screen movie theater located in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, Oregon in the United States. The theater was designed by Day Walter Hilborn or Thomas and Thomas (Oregon Public Broadcasting says the former, who ...

, specialty retail and neighborhood stores, upscale antique shops, a middle school, and other stores. Education is provided by the

Portland Public School District Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

. Its zoned schools are either Llewelyn or Duniway Elementary, Sellwood Middle School, and Cleveland High School.

References

External links

PDF map

- PortlandNeighborhood.com's Sellwood-Moreland page
''The Sellwood Bee''
- Sellwood's local paper
Sellwood-Moreland Street Tree Inventory Report
{{Portland neighborhoods 1889 establishments in Oregon Populated places established in 1889 1893 disestablishments in Oregon Former cities in Oregon Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon