Editing Sheridan, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[Absolem B. Faulconer]] laid out the [[plat]] for what became the city of Sheridan in the mid-1860s. This plat was recorded with the county on December 13, 1866.<ref name="history">{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofsheridanor.com/vertical/Sites/%7BEB0DD61B-914B-47DE-BD5C-E59130F53846%7D/uploads/%7BB7BB8367-C484-4FEA-9993-12E40BD612BE%7D.PDF|title=Sheridan - A. B. Faulconer's Town|last=Stoller|first=Ruth|access-date=August 22, 2009}}</ref> He had settled in the area in 1847.<ref name="history"/> The Sheridan post office was established on April 4, 1866, with Absolem's brother Thomas serving as [[postmaster]].<ref name="history"/> By 1871, the town had grown to include two blacksmith shops, one church, one school, one hotel, one wagon shop, and two [[general store]]s.<ref name="history"/> In October 1878, the [[Dayton, Sheridan and Grand Ronde Railroad]], a [[narrow-gauge railway]], reached the community.<ref name="history"/>

Sheridan, a timber and farming community southwest of [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] and northwest of [[Salem, Oregon|Salem]], was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] in 1880.<ref name="prisontown">{{cite news|title=Sheridan becomes a prison town|last=Mortenson|first=Eric|date=May 20, 1989|work=Register-Guard|pages=1A and 4A}}</ref> Sheridan was named for General Philip Sheridan, who was posted to Yamhill County and [[Fort Yamhill]] in the latter half of the 1850s to monitor the Native Americans at what is now the [[Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon|Grand Ronde Reservation]] west of the city.<ref name="prisontown"/> By 1894, Sheridan had grown to 400 residents, one bank, two hotels, three churches, and a [[Mill (grinding)|flouring mill]].<ref name="handbook">{{cite book|title=The Oregonian's handbook of the Pacific Northwest |publisher=Oregonian Publishing Company |editor=Edward Gardner Jones|year=1894|page=[https://archive.org/details/oregonianshandbo00jone/page/258 258]|url=https://archive.org/details/oregonianshandbo00jone|quote=sheridan oregon. }}</ref> At that time there was a daily train to the city as well as daily [[stage coach]] service from McMinnville, and a single wooden bridge over the river.<ref name="handbook"/>

Agriculture was the main industry in Sheridan's early years.<ref name="sunset">{{cite journal|last=Mosessohn|first=M.|date=July 1910|title=In the Valley of Content|journal=Sunset|volume=XXV|pages=112–113|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vSgLAAAAIAAJ&q=sheridan%20oregon&pg=PA112}}</ref> Around 1910, the main crops included [[hops]], clover-seed, hay, potatoes, onions, and a variety of fruits including apples, prunes, and pears.<ref name="sunset"/> In March 1910, 150 workers at a lumber yard owned by the [[Sheridan Lumber Company]] went on strike for higher wages. The strike was supported by Portland members of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] who picketed employment agencies in Portland to prevent the company from hiring [[strikebreaker]]s. The action was successful and the workers won a pay increase of twenty-five cents per day,<ref name="IWWYearbook1910">{{cite web |url=http://depts.washington.edu/iww/iwwyearbook1910.shtml |title=IWW Yearbook 1910 |last=Upton |first=Austin |website=IWW History Project |publisher=[[University of Washington]] |access-date=19 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="IW_1910_03_26">{{cite news |last=Nef |first=Walter T. |date=26 March 1910 |title=Accounts of the Strike at Sheridan, Oregon |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=1 |newspaper=[[Industrial Worker]] |url=https://archive.org/details/v2n01-mar-26-1910-IW }}</ref><!-- strike was reported on in the Oregonian, Mar 11 1910 --> {{inflation|US|0.25|1910|r=2|fmt=eq}}.{{Inflation-fn|US}}
On July 18, 1913, a fire that destroyed most of the commercial district caused $300,000 in damage.<ref name="history"/> Most of the buildings were rebuilt with brick within six months.<ref name="history"/> On October 30, 1930, the [[Jesuits]] purchased an {{convert|891|acre|adj=on}} farm on a hill overlooking the city.<ref name="jesuits">{{cite book|last=Schoenberg|first=Wilfred P.|title=Jesuits in Oregon|publisher=The Oregon-Jesuit|date=June 1959}}</ref> There they started St. Francis Xavier's [[Novitiate]], a school for training priests for the order.<ref name="jesuits"/> Opening in a new building and several existing farm buildings in 1931, St. Francis Xavier's added more buildings over the next several decades.<ref name="jesuits"/>

In 1932, the state built a highway through Sheridan from [[McMinnville, Oregon|McMinnville]] to the [[Oregon Coast]], which became [[Oregon Route 18]] or the Salmon River Highway. With funds received through the [[Works Progress Administration]], the current [[Sheridan Bridge (Oregon)|steel bridge]] across the [[South Yamhill River]] was built and opened in 1939.<ref>{{cite news|title='It's the thrill of the search' – Marge Owens|last=Pointer|first=Starla|date=June 24, 2006|work=[[News-Register (McMinnville)|News-Register]]}}</ref> By 1940, [[agriculture]] was still a major industry, and the timber industry was growing in importance to the local economy.<ref name="wpa">{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich |title= Oregon: End of the Trail |author= [[Federal Writers' Project|Writers' Program]] of the [[Work Projects Administration]] in the [[Government of Oregon|State of Oregon]] |series= [[American Guide Series]] |year= 1940 |publisher= [[Binfords & Mort]] |location= [[Portland, Oregon]] |pages= [https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich/page/492 492]–493 |oclc= 4874569}}</ref> At that time the city had grown to a population of 1,008 people.<ref name="wpa"/>
[[File:Sheridan, Oregon City Hall.JPG|thumb|upright|Sheridan's [[City Hall]], a former savings and loan, built to resemble the old train depot]]
The state built a bypass around Sheridan and [[Willamina, Oregon|Willamina]] that opened in 1957 to carry Oregon Route 18 on the south end of the city. The old alignment through the center of town became Oregon Route 18 Business. Sheridan had its [[Christmas flood of 1964|largest flooding in history]] on December 22, 1964.<ref name="floods">{{cite news|url=http://web.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=230895|title=Sheridan gets advice on next big one|last=Daquilante|first=Paul|date=January 26, 2008|work=News-Register|access-date=August 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714174934/http://web.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=230895|archive-date=July 14, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The South Yamhill overflowed its banks and isolated the town for two days.<ref name="floods"/> The Jesuits sold their training school in 1974 to the Delphian Foundation,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.catholicsentinel.org/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=35&ArticleID=3848|title=The Sheridan novitiate|last=Staff and news service reports|date=June 25, 1999|work=Catholic Sentinel|access-date=August 26, 2009}}</ref> who then opened [[The Delphian School]] at the site in 1976.<ref name="sights">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=q8YUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6OEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3399,564030&dq=delphian-school+sheridan|title=Delphian School sets sights high|last=Associated Press|date=January 3, 1978|work=Register-Guard|page=3B|access-date=August 26, 2009}}</ref>

In 1989, a federal minimum and medium security prison called the [[Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan|Federal Correctional Institution]] opened on the south side of Sheridan.<ref name="prisontown"/> At that time, Sheridan had a population of around 2,500 people.<ref name="prisontown"/> Sheridan moved its [[city hall]] into the old railroad station in January 1993,<ref>{{cite news|title=Sheridan City Hall moves into the renovated train station depot|date=January 23, 1993|work=News-Register|page=1}}</ref> and expanded the renovated building in 1995.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sheridan City Hall being remodeled and enlarged to make more room for the YCSO West Valley substation|date=November 30, 1995|work=News-Register|page=12}}</ref> The [[U.S. Census Bureau]] erroneously listed Sheridan's population as 3,570 in the 2000 Census after mis-listing the prison's population in the wrong [[census tract]].<ref name=OSC>''Hartung v. Bradbury'', 332 Or. 570, 33 P.3d 972 (2001)</ref> This error of about 2000 people was enough to throw off the state legislative districts beyond their margin of acceptance and the [[Oregon Supreme Court]] ruled the Secretary of State must re-draw the boundary lines to match the correct data.<ref name=OSC/><ref>Bradbury gives court new map on redistricting. ''[[The Oregonian]]'', November 29, 2001.</ref>  Sheridan also counts the prison population as part of the city's official population. In December 2008, a two-alarm fire gutted the 1875 United Methodist Church in the city.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=243556|title=Sheridan loses 1875 church building|last=Daquilante|first=Paul|date=December 25, 2008|work=News-Register|access-date=August 22, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714174714/http://web.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=243556|archive-date=July 14, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>