Editing Cedar Mill, Oregon (section)

==History==

===Early history===
[[File:Kalapuya-Man.jpg|150px|thumb|The Atfalati were the original inhabitants of the area.]]
Before white settlement, the land was inhabited by the [[Atfalati]], a subgroup of the [[Kalapuya]], called the "Tualatin" or "Wapato Lake Indians" by settlers. Nearby Beaverton was known by the Natives as "Cha Kepi", meaning "Place of the Beaver". While in 1782 the native population exceeded several thousand, due to diseases brought by the settlers sixty years later, in 1842, the population was merely six hundred. By 1890, the members of the tribe had been reduced to 28 and the last known speaker of the Tualatin language, Louis Kenoyer, died in 1936. Early settlers in the area would recall Native Americans passing through the area, visiting their former lands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedarmill.org/news/pdf/0104.pdf|title=Cedar Mill News - February 2004|author=Olson, Nancy|publisher=Cedar Mill News|date=February 1, 2004|access-date=October 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="doddsolson"/>

Most of the land in the area, as was typical in the [[Tualatin River|Tualatin Valley]], was settled in accord with the [[Donation Land Claim Act of 1850]]. Pioneer Samuel Walters was the first white settler to arrive in the area, doing so in 1847.<ref name=doddsolson>{{cite web|url=http://cedarmill.org/history_intro.html|title=Cedar Mill History|author1=Dodds, Linda  |author2=Olson, Nancy|publisher=Cedar Mill History|access-date=June 28, 2023}}</ref> William Cornell, namesake of [[Cornell Road]], settled near  what is now the easternmost part of Cedar Mill with his wife Emily in 1852.<ref name=oreg-2008mar>{{cite news|last=Baron|first=Connie|title=Paths linking past and present|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=March 6, 2008|at=Metro West Neighbors section, p. 10}}</ref> The area became a [[school district]] in 1856.

The sawmill was established in 1859 by John Halsey Jones and his father, Justus, and was the "first organized business"<ref name=history41>Brody and Olson, p. 41</ref><ref name="pearsongw"/> in what is now Cedar Mill. Plans for the mill, which was located on the south side of [[Cornell Road]] at McDaniel Road (now N.W. 119th Avenue), were established as early as 1855 by the 23-year old Jones.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cedarmill.org/history/history_lumber.html|title=Cedar Mill History - The Lumber Economy}}</ref> The Jones Sawmill was sold in December 1869 to John Quincy Adams Young and William Everson, becoming the Young–Everson Mill.<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 45</ref> It was renamed the Young Brothers Sawmill after J.Q.A. Young's sons Linc and Jasper acquired it.<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 48</ref> It ceased operation in 1891<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 50</ref> and was abandoned in 1892.<ref name=history41/>

Many of Cedar Mill's early settlers were Irish Catholics. Thomas and Ann Leahy reached the Portland area in 1852 and in 1865 the Leahys, now including their infant son John, moved into a house on present-day Leahy Road, the family's namesake. Thomas died in 1874, and Ann in 1913. Following Ann Leahy's death, the property was divided among John and his brother Hugh. After their deaths in logging accidents in 1929 and 1940 respectively, the property continued in the family and descendants of the Leahy family continue to reside there today.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cedarmill.org/history/history_newpioneers.html|title=Cedar Mill History - A New Generation of Pioneers}}</ref> Owen and Mary Murray, the namesake of Murray Road, moved to Oregon in the early 1880s and established a 120-acre farm. Their son Joseph Murray sold the farm due to debts brought on by the [[Great Depression]] in 1936.

===Mill and post office===
[[File:Front of JQA Young House in Cedar Mill, Oregon (2015).jpg|thumb|left|Historic John and Elizabeth Young House in Cedar Mill, 2015]]
According to ''[[Oregon Geographic Names]]'', a "Cedar Mill" post office was established in 1874, in the [[John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House|John Quincy Adams Young House]],<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 95</ref> built in 1869, which still stands on Cornell Road and is owned by the [[Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District]].  The name was chosen by Young, who had "been commissioned to establish a post office in the area"<ref name=history94>Brody and Olson, p. 94</ref> and been named the first postmaster.  The Young–Everson sawmill, specializing in cedar products, was still the only business operating in the area at the time and was also located directly adjacent to the post office, making "Cedar Mill" a logical choice for the name of the new postal station.<ref name=history94/> Around the same time, in 1874, Young retired from milling, sold the mill to Everson, and moved his family into a new, larger house on the north side of Cornell Road, just across from the 1869-built house that was now being used as a post office.<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 47</ref> Along with the post office, Young also operated a small store on the ground floor of his former house.<ref>Brody and Olson, pp. 48, 95</ref> In 1976, the Russell family of Cedar Mill had owned the house since 1914.<ref name=pearsongw>{{cite book|last=Pearson|first=Gertrude Walters|title=Heritage Quilt of Cedar Mill - An Oregon Community|pages=1–16|publisher=Washington County Heritage Online|url=http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/17/rec/5|date=1976|access-date=October 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630043247/http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/17/rec/5|archive-date=June 30, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

John Q. A. Young served as Cedar Mill postmaster until December 1881.  His successor, George Reeves, moved the post office in 1882 to a new [[general store]] that Reeves opened in that year, located just northwest of the intersection of Barnes and Cornell Roads. The Cedar Mill post office, always located within a store, was moved two more times before closing on July 3, 1904.<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 96</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Quilted Cedar Mill heritage to help library|newspaper=Beaverton Valley Times|location=Beaverton, Oregon|date=August 1, 1976|url=http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/18/rec/3|access-date=October 27, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The final stamp cancelled at the post office was owned in 1976 by Bernard P. Young, a descendant of John and Elizabeth Young.<ref name="pearsongw"/>

===20th century===
[[File:Leedy Grange - Cedar Mill, Oregon.JPG|thumb|Leedy Grange]]
The present-day Leedy Grange #339 building, near the corner of Saltzman and Cornell Roads and near the Cedar Mill Library, was built in 1900 (according to Leedy Grange 1903). It originally housed a [[Modern Woodmen of America|Modern Woodmen]] organization; however, in 1913 (1906 according to the Grange) the building was sold to the Leedy Grange, and the second story removed.<ref name="pearsongw"/> The monthly Cedar Mill Flea Market was held at the grange the first Saturday of each month but was discontinued.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grange.org/leedyor339/|title=Leedy Grange 339 - Your local Grange in Cedar Mill, Oregon}}</ref> The first Flea Market was held in June 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2010/05/sell_your_stuff_at_leedy_grange_flea_market.html|title=Sell your stuff at Leedy Grange flea market|author=Hudson, Wendy|publisher=OregonLive|date=May 21, 2010|access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref>

Public transit service to Cedar Mill was operated in the 1940s by Tualatin Valley Stages,<ref name="oreg-1943mar6">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Boulevard Busses To Resume Runs |date=March 6, 1943 |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=6}}</ref> which after 1953 became Tualatin Valley Buses, Inc.–part of a consortium of privately owned companies known as the [[Blue Bus lines|"Blue Bus" lines]]. It continued to serve the area through the 1960s,<ref name="gloomy future">{{cite news|last=Pratt |first=Gerry |title=Bus Lines Manager Sees Gloomy Future |date=August 17, 1966 |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=21}}</ref> until [[TriMet]] took over the Blue Bus lines in 1970.<ref name="takes over operation">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Tri-Met Takes Over Operation Of Blue Buses, Finds Rolling Stock In Bad Condition |date=September 9, 1970 |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=9}}</ref>

A Cedar Mill Heritage Quilt was created in the summer of 1976 by 15 local women. It detailed various aspects of Cedar Mill history.<ref name="quilting">{{cite news|title=Handicraft, rummage sale to benefit library|newspaper=Hillsboro Argus|location=Hillsboro, Oregon|date=September 16, 1976|page=3B|url=http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/19/rec/29|access-date=October 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809004713/http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/19/rec/29|archive-date=August 9, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Former U.S. Senator [[Maurine Neuberger]] declared the winner of the quilting competition in September 1976.<ref name="quilting"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/search/collection/p16047coll4/searchterm/Quilts/field/all/mode/exact/conn/and|title=Cedar Mill Heritage Quilt photographs and articles, 1976|date=1976|website=Washington County Heritage Online|access-date=17 July 2017}}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>