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 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 and
South Portland
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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) 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,
George Abernethy).
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 di ...
.
The
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is located on the riverfront of Hosford-Abernethy, at the southern end of the
Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade.
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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