South Waterfront park takes name after settler
Daily Journal of Commerce
POSTED: 04:00 AM PDT Thursday, April 9, 2009
BY TYLER GRAF
City Council on Wednesday recommended that Portland Parks & Recreation name the new South Waterfront neighborhood park after Elizabeth Caruthers, a little-known Portland settler.
Caruthers was among the first in the 19th century to settle near the Willamette River. She owned the land on which construction has begun for the two-acre park.
The park is the second city project to be named after Caruthers: The region’s planned pedestrian-and-transit bridge spanning the Willamette River, from Oregon Health and Science University to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, is called the Caruthers Bridge.
The name choice came from within Portland Parks & Recreation after it sought input from the community.
“I am personally very, very pleased that the park is being named after a woman,” Parks & Recreation Director Zari Santner said.
Construction of the park is expected to be completed in August.
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