
This mural is in the O'Bryant Square park at SW Park Ave & Washington St. This site is supposedly near the clearing where W.C. Overton and Asa Lovejoy agreed to found a town in November 1843. The square itself is named for Hugh Donaldson O'Bryant, a pioneer who migrated to Oregon from Georgia in 1843. O'Bryant was a carpenter who founded Portland's first public library in 1850. He was elected as Portland's first mayor in the city's first election on April 7, 1851, by receiving 104 of the 222 votes cast.
The park is pretty sad and grungy and is also referred to as Paranoid Park due to its near-exclusive frequenting by street kids and homeless people in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. One of the funnier descriptions of the park: "If Pioneer Courthouse Square is Portland’s living room, O’Bryant Square is its dimly lit back porch."
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