Editing Sherwood, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[File:Or sherwood dt.JPG|thumb|275px|left|Sherwood downtown from the corner of Railroad and Main looking north]]
The name "Sherwood" came either after [[Sherwood Forest]] in England or [[Sherwood, Michigan]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=McArthur |first=Lewis Ankeny |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cylMAQAAIAAJ |title=Oregon Geographic Names |date=1944 |publisher=Binfords & Mort |page=447 |language=en |quote=although there is a local tradition that the name was chosen in compliment to Sherwood Forest , England}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=McArthur |first=Lewis A. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25874046 |title=Oregon geographic names |date=1992 |publisher=Oregon Historical Society Press |others=Lewis L. McArthur |isbn=0-87595-236-4 |edition=6th ed., rev. & enl. |location=Portland |page=760 |oclc=25874046 |quote=It is supposed he did so because he had formerly lived near Sherwood , Michigan , although there is a local tradition that the name was chosen in compliment to Sherwood Forest}}</ref> In 1885, the Smocks gave a right-of-way on their property to the [[Portland and Willamette Valley Railway]]. The Smocks platted the town in 1889, the same year rail service began. Tradition has it that no one, not even the town's founders, liked the name "Smock Ville," and so a public meeting was held to rename the town.<ref>
{{cite web
  | url = http://www.clydeburger.com/map/subset/sherk/index.htm
  | title = History of Sherwood Oregon {{hyphen}} Graduation Thesis for Pacific College
  | location = Newberg, Oregon
  | year = 1936
  | first = Ronald
  | last = Sherk
  | editor = Clyde List
  | agency = Sherwood Historical Society
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042154/http://www.clydeburger.com/map/subset/sherk/index.htm
  | archive-date = September 26, 2017
  | access-date = April 7, 2018
}}</ref>  Robert Alexander, who was both a local resident and prominent businessman, suggested the name "Sherwood." According to post office records, Alexander was from [[Sherwood, Michigan]],<ref>Engeman, Richard H. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FaKH2AV08rAC&pg=PA341&lpg=PA341 "The Oregon Companion: An Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious, and the Arcane"]  Timber Press, 2009, p. 341</ref> and also said the forest which surrounded the city was like [[Sherwood Forest]] in England. The U.S. Postal Department began sending mail to the Town of Sherwood, Oregon, on July 5, 1891. Smock was the first postmaster. The Town of Sherwood was incorporated under Oregon Senate Bill 36 in 1893.<ref>
{{cite book
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LlMbAQAAIAAJ
  | title = Journal of the Senate
  | author = Legislative Assembly
  | publisher = State of Oregon
  | series = 17th Regular Session
  | year = 1893
  | at = pp. 38, 94, 117, 121, 122, 501, 529, 537
  | access-date = April 7, 2018
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
  | url = http://www.clydeburger.com/map/subset/documents/charter1893.htm 
  | title = Oregon Senate Bill 36 (text of)
  | year = 1893
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160220025423/http://www.clydeburger.com/map/subset/documents/charter1893.htm
  | archive-date = February 20, 2016
}}</ref>

The main industry in the 1890s was a pressed brick yard which closed in 1896, a victim of [[Panic of 1893|the financial recession of 1893]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/whitten.panic.1893 |title=EH.Net Encyclopedia: Depression of 1893 |access-date=October 5, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427161827/http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/whitten.panic.1893 |archive-date=April 27, 2009}}</ref>  The [[Klondike Gold Rush]] of 1897 revived Sherwood's economy. {{citation needed|date=March 2011}} In 2014, ''[[Money (magazine)|Money]]'' ranked Sherwood fifth among the top fifty best places to live in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|date=May 21, 2014 |title=Best Places to Live 2014 |url=https://money.com/collection-post/sherwood-or-5-best-places-to-live/ |url-status=live |website=[[Money.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123021322/https://money.com/collection-post/sherwood-or-5-best-places-to-live/ |archive-date=January 23, 2021 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref>

The population of the city in 1911 was 350 within a {{convert|1|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} city limit. The city has since expanded to nearly {{convert|4.5|sqmi|km2}}.<ref name="City History">{{cite web|title=City History  |url=http://www.sherwoodoregon.gov/community/page/city-history|publisher=City of Sherwood|access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref>