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The World's Smallest Park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.
Mill Ends Park of Portland, Oregon was deemed the world’s smallest city park in 1971 by the Guinness Book of World Records. The park is merely two feet wide and lies in the median of a heavily trafficked Parkway. The Park was dedicated on St. Patrick’s Day in 1948 by Dick Fagan, an imaginative journalist, who wrote about the trials and tribulations of the park’s head leprechaun, Patrick O’Toole. Fagan claimed to be the only person who was able to see these leprechauns, and therefore had the exclusive scoop. Mill Ends officially became a city park on St. Patrick’s Day in 1976. The park continues to be the site of inventive St. Patrick’s Day festivities to this day.
Source: atlasobscura.com/places/mill-ends-park
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