Featured Community: SMILE, Portland, OR
Jun/23/2010 06:28 AM Filed in: Featured
Sellwood-Moreland is located three miles "up-river" from downtown Portland, and the history of the neighborhood stretches back to the late 1840's, before Oregon was a state, when the area was part of four donation land claims.
One of those first claimants, Henderson Luelling, brought nursery stock with him via the Oregon Trail, and established the first commercial fruit nursery in what was then simply the Oregon Country.
The neighborhood had no name until 1882, when 321 acres were purchased and subdivided for house lots by the Sellwood Real Estate Company.
The independent City of Sellwood, named after early civic leader Reverend Sellwood, was incorporated in 1887, and had its own city council and sheriff until 1893, when it became a part of the growing City of Portland.
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