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Colonel Summers Park, SE 17th Ave & Taylor St, Portland, OR 97214, United States
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Colonel Summers Park is a city park in the Southeast Portland, Oregon neighborhood of Buckman. The park was created in 1921 and was originally called Belmont Park for Belmont Street which runs east-west on its boundary. In 1938 it was renamed in honor of Colonel Owen Summers, who as an Oregon legislator, introduced a bill that combined the state militia units into the Oregon National Guard. Colonel Summers was the commanding officer of a volunteer regiment in the Spanish–American War, which served in forty-two different engagements during the war. The park includes recreation areas and a community garden added in 1975.
