Southeast Portland is one of the sextants 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 ...
.
Boundaries and features
Southeast Portland stretches from the warehouses along the
Willamette River
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through historic
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 ...
to the
Hawthorne
Hawthorne often refers to the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Hawthorne may also refer to:
Places
Australia
*Hawthorne, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
Canada
* Hawthorne Village, Ontario, a suburb of Milton, Ontario
United States
* Hawt ...
and
Belmont districts out to
Gresham. Not far from Hawthorne is
Reed College
Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...
, whose campus expands from Woodstock Boulevard to Steele Street, and from 28th to 39th Avenues.
Southeast Portland also features
Mt. Tabor, a
cinder cone volcano
Cinder is an alternate term for scoria.
Cinder or Cinders may also refer to:
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*Cinder (programming library), a C++ programming library for visualization
*Cinder, OpenStack's block storage component
*Cyber Insider Threat, CINDER, a d ...
that has become one of Portland's more scenic and popular parks.
Peacock Lane
Peacock Lane is a four-block street in southeast Portland, Oregon, in the United States. It is known for its elaborately decorated homes during the Christmas and holiday season.
During this time of year, thousands of people come to view the disp ...
is a street known locally for lavish Christmas decorations and displays.
History
Southeast Portland has blue-collar roots and has evolved to encompass a wide mix of backgrounds. The Hawthorne district in particular is known for its hippie/radical crowd and small subculturally oriented shops.
Between the 1920s and the 1960s, Southeast was home to
Lambert Gardens
Lambert Gardens was a botanical garden of over in the Reed neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, USA. It opened in 1930 and closed in 1968 and had a total estimated visitor count of 2,000,000, most of them believed to be out-of-towners.
History
And ...
.
See also
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Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon is divided into six sections: North Portland, Northeast Portland, Northwest Portland, South Portland, Southeast Portland, and Southwest Portland. There are 95 officially recognized neighborhoods, each of which is represented ...
External links
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