Woodstock, Portland, Oregon

The Woodstock neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States, is located in the city's inner southeast section. It is bounded on the north by SE Holgate Boulevard, west by Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly SE 39th Avenue), east by SE 60th and SE 45th, and south by Johnson Creek. Woodstock borders the neighborhoods of Reed and Eastmoreland on the west, Creston-Kenilworth on the north, Mt. Scott-Arleta and Brentwood-Darlington on the east, and Ardenwald-Johnson Creek on the south.

It is one of the city’s older neighborhoods, first platted in 1889. The northern portion of the neighborhood contains the majority of the neighborhood’s older homes, some built as early as the 1880s. Post World War II housing construction is concentrated in the southern panhandle and the northeast corner of the neighborhood. More recent urban infill housing is scattered throughout the area although more concentrated in the eastern portion of the area.

The land that is now the Woodstock Neighborhood was still wilderness in 1848 when an itinerant Methodist minister, Clinton Kelly, his wife Mary, their children and extended family members arrived from Kentucky. The threat of a civil war and the prospects of free land in the west has prompted Kelly and his brothers and their families to migrate to Oregon.

The first order of business for all of the Kellys was to locate land suitable for farming. Archon Kelly, the third son of Clinton Kelly was 17 years old when he crossed the plains with his family....
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