About the neighborhood
Neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, United States
Richmond is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon. It borders Sunnyside on the north, Mt. Tabor and South Tabor on the east, Creston-Kenilworth on the south, and Hosford-Abernethy on the west.
The northern edge of the neighborhood is part of the Hawthorne District.
Neighborhood parks include Sewallcrest Park (1940) and Ivon Community Garden (1978).
Richmond is named after Richmond Kelly, son of an early immigrant from Kentucky who held one of the donation land claims in the area, Rev. Clinton Kelly.
The Richmond neighborhood is home to Richmond Elementary School, the first of three which comprise the Japanese Magnet Program of Portland Public Schools. JMP students continue on to Mt. Tabor Middle School and then to Grant High School in the Grant Park neighborhood.
References
External links
Media related to Richmond, Portland, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons
Guide to Richmond Neighborhood (PortlandNeighborhood.com)
Richmond Neighborhood Plan (Portland Bureau of Planning, 1994)
R ichmond Street Tree Inventory Report
Geography Hawthorne
Sewallcrest Park
Public art This All Happened More or Less
Category
Commons
Encyclopedic content adapted from the Wikipedia article on Division, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
