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45°30' 58" N, 122°40' 25" W

Billed as the smallest park in the world, with an area of 452 square inches. Located in the center divider of SW Naito Pkwy, at its intersection with Taylor.

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Dobie Gillis says:

Dick Fagan, a columnist for the old Oregon Journal, was looking down on what is now Naito Parkway in downtown Portland one day, and a patch of weeds in the middle of the median strip caught his eye. The space was supposed to hold one of Portland’s dual light, acorn-style fixture lamppost, but it never showed up, so the tiny square had grown into an eyesore. An Irishman through and through, Fagan celebrated St. Patrick's Day in 1948 by planting flowers in the little plot and christening it "Mill Ends Park, the smallest park in the world." To the delight of readers, he then populated it with "a colony of leprechauns, the only colony west of the Emerald Isle" and chronicled the comings and goings within its modest confines in his column, "Mill Ends." Fagan died in 1969, but the park lives on. It was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1971, and dedicated as an official city park in 1976, and has been rebuilt and replanted many times over the years. It was moved in the spring of 2006, several feet from the original location because of the renovations of Naito Parkway. It still measures a full two feet in diameter. It has been the site of several St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
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