Sellwood-Moreland is a neighborhood on a bluff overlooking the

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in Southeast

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, bordering

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to the north, Eastmoreland to the east, and the city of Milwaukie to the south. The neighborhood is linked to Southwest Portland across the Willamette River by the

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, 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, 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 Oaks Park 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, Oregon, Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located in a floodplain along the east bank of the Willamette River near Sellwood, Portland, Oregon, Sellwood, the park is kn ...

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

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. 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
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