Sunday 24 May 2015

The World's Smallest Park Is Only 2 Feet Wide

image credit: Craig Dietrich

The world's smallest park is only 2 feet wide. It's just a small tree surrounded by a bit of grass. In 1946, Dick Fagan, a journalist in Portland, Oregon, noticed that there was a hole in the median of a street where a lamppost used to stand.

He decided to put it to good use by building a park there. Fagan named it Mills End Park after the title of his regular newspaper column, Mills End. The City of Portland acquired it in 1976, so it's an official city park.

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