Cully is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of

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and a former

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(CDP). The neighborhood, as well as NE Cully Blvd. that runs diagonally through it, is named after English

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Thomas Cully (1810–1891), an early settler. Cully borders

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, Concordia, and Beaumont-Wilshire on the west, Portland International Airport on the north,

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on the east, and Rose City Park and

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on the south. Neighborhood parks include Sacajawea Park (1985), Rigler Community Garden (2004), Kʰunamokwst Park (2015), and Whitaker Ponds Nature Park (1998). Nevertheless, Cully has the smallest amount of parkland per capita, and largest population living more than one-half mile from a park, of any Portland neighborhood. The Thomas Cully Park Community Garden celebrated its grand opening on October 18, 2012. Rose City Cemetery, founded in 1906, occupies the southwest corner of the neighborhood. Within its grounds is the Japanese Cemetery, which is maintained independently by the Japanese Ancestral Society of Portland.Harvey, Thomas (April 2006). "Sacred Spaces, Common Places: The Cemetery in the Contemporary American City". ''The Geographical Review'' 96(2): 295-312.

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Let Us Build Cully Park! Community Garden
video about the Cully Park Community Garden (2013)

- PortlandNeighborhood.com
Cully Association of Neighbors

"Not all the city is rich in parks"
by Peter Korn,

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, August 3, 2006
"City, schools tally Cully's deficiencies"
by James Mayer,

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, November 27, 2008
Cully Street Tree Inventory Report
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon Former census-designated places in Oregon {{MultnomahCountyOR-geo-stub

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