Editing Forest Grove, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[File:Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. (8113557742).jpg|thumb|left|Forest Grove, 1909]]
[[File:Forest Grove Oregon Pacific Avenue 1920.jpg|thumb|left|Pacific Avenue, circa 1920]]
Prior to the 1840s when Euro-Americans settled the area, the [[Atfalati]] band of the [[Kalapuya people|Kalapuya]] Native American tribe lived on the [[Tualatin Plains]] in what is now Forest Grove.<ref name=cityhistory>[http://www.forestgrove-or.gov/city-hall/historic-landmarks-board-history.html Historic Landmarks Board: History.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002222600/http://www.forestgrove-or.gov/city-hall/historic-landmarks-board-history.html |date=2011-10-02 }} City of Forest Grove. Retrieved on December 5, 2008.</ref> In 1841, [[Alvin T. Smith|Alvin T.]] and Abigail Smith were among the earliest to use the [[Oregon Trail]] and settled on what was first known as West Tualatin Plain.<ref name="then">{{cite news|title=Then & Now Forest Grove|last=Conway|first=Anne Kopel|date=July 20, 2000|newspaper=The Oregonian}}</ref> They overwintered with [[Henry Harmon Spalding]], arriving in what is now Forest Grove in the fall. Intending to be missionaries, they found little potential as most of the natives had succumbed to European diseases. Smith served as the community's first postmaster beginning on February 1, 1850, and his log cabin served as the post office.<ref name="then"/>

According to ''[[Oregon Geographic Names]]'', the name Forest Grove was selected on January 10, 1851, at a meeting of the trustees of [[Tualatin Academy]] (later known as Pacific University). Resident and school trustee [[J. Quinn Thornton]] suggested the name, which he also had used for the name of his homestead.<ref name="then"/> The name referred to a grove of oak trees that still stand on what is now the campus of the university.<ref name="then"/> Previous post offices in the area were called Tuality Plains and Tualatin, with Forest Grove adopted on December 31, 1858.<ref name="then"/> The city was platted in 1850.

In 1860, the population reached 430, but declined to 396 in 1870.<ref name=cityhistory/> Forest Grove was incorporated by the state in 1872, the first in the county.<ref>{{cite news|title=Incorporation dates|date=October 19, 1976|work=The Hillsboro Argus|department=Communities |page=21}}</ref> In 1880, the now [[Chemawa Indian School]] opened in the city to forcibly assimilate  Native American children, but moved to Salem in 1884. The city started the [[Forest Grove Fire and Rescue|Fire Department]] in 1894.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fire Department|url=http://www.forestgrove-or.gov/city-hall/fire-department.html|website=Departments|publisher=City of Forest Grove|access-date=21 June 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709203716/http://www.forestgrove-or.gov/city-hall/fire-department.html|archive-date=9 July 2014}}</ref> The population reached nearly 1,300 in 1900.<ref name=cityhistory/>

In November 1908, the [[Oregon Electric Railway]] (OE) began serving the city,<ref name="Thompson_WVR">{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=Richard |date=2008 |title=Willamette Valley Railways |pages=29, 32, 59 and 77 |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-7385-5601-7}}</ref><ref name="or-encyclopedia_streetcar">{{cite encyclopedia | last=Thompson | first=Richard | title=Forest Grove streetcar system | encyclopedia=[[The Oregon Encyclopedia]] | url=http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/forest_grove_streetcar_system/ | access-date=August 25, 2011}}</ref> and in January 1914, competitor [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]] (SP) followed suit, opening its own line, separate from OE's.<ref name="Thompson_WVR"/> Both railroads provided [[Freight rail transport|freight]] and passenger service, SP's passenger service being known as the [[Red Electric]].  A company called the Forest Grove Transportation Company operated local [[streetcar]] service that linked downtown to [[Carnation, Oregon]], where the Oregon & California Railroad built its depot, but the service lasted only from 1906 to 1911.<ref name=cityhistory/><ref name="Thompson_WVR"/> The Red Electric passenger service to Forest Grove ended in 1929 and Oregon Electric's ceased in 1932.<ref name="Thompson_WVR"/>

In February 2016, a high-pitched, hissing noise called the [[Forest Grove Sound]] was heard by several residents of the town.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Will We Ever Know What Was Causing Mystery Noise in This Oregon Town?|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mystery-forest-grove-oregon-noise-may-never-be-solved-n579456|access-date=2020-11-16|website=NBC News|date=29 May 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Holley|first=Peter|title=Listen to the mysterious nocturnal noise baffling experts and terrifying an Oregon community|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/21/listen-to-the-mysterious-nocturnal-noise-baffling-experts-and-terrifying-an-oregon-community/|access-date=2020-11-16|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

There are 12 properties individually listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] and two historic districts: the 18-block [[Clark Historic District]] with homes dating as far back as 1854 (and several dozen pre-1900) and the [[Painter's Woods Historic District]].<ref name=OE-entry>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/forest_grove/ |title=Forest Grove |last=Gilman |first=Elias |encyclopedia=[[The Oregon Encyclopedia]]}}</ref> These include the [[Alvin T. Smith House]], [[First Church of Christ, Scientist (Forest Grove, Oregon)|First Church of Christ, Scientist]], and [[Tualatin Academy#Building|Old College Hall]].

The [[Oregon Army National Guard]]'s [[218th Field Artillery Regiment (United States)|2nd Battalion-218th Field Artillery Regiment]] is headquartered in Forest Grove.