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==History== [[File:Washington County Jail - Hillsboro, Oregon.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.0|County jail in Hillsboro]] {{See also|David Hill (Oregon politician)|label 1=David Hill|Tabitha Moffatt Brown|Joseph Meek}} The [[Provisional Legislature of Oregon]] created the county as [[Twality District]] on July 5, 1843. Twality was one of the original four districts of the [[Provisional Government of Oregon]] in [[Oregon Country]] along with [[Clackamas County, Oregon|Clackamas]], Champooick (later [[Marion County, Oregon|Marion]]), and [[Yamhill County, Oregon|Yamhill]] counties. Columbia, later known as [[Hillsboro, Oregon|Hillsboro]], was selected as the county seat in 1850. Washington County lost significant portions of its original area when [[Columbia County, Oregon|Columbia]] and [[Multnomah County, Oregon|Multnomah]] counties were created in 1854. The county area was increased by {{convert|160|acres}} in 2014 when a section of Multnomah County was attached to Washington.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Secretary of State: Washington County History |url=https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/records/county/Pages/washington-history.aspx |access-date=April 1, 2018 |website=sos.oregon.gov}}</ref> The area was returned to Washington County to allow for property development.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 10, 2014 |title=County welcomes Area 93 in new year |url=http://pamplinmedia.com/ht/117-hillsboro-tribune-news/207116-63105-county-welcomes-area-93-in-new-year |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116222935/http://www.pamplinmedia.com/ht/117-hillsboro-tribune-news/207116-63105-county-welcomes-area-93-in-new-year |archive-date=January 16, 2014 |access-date=January 6, 2020 |work=[[Hillsboro Tribune]]}}</ref> The construction of [[Canyon Road]] to [[Beaverton, Oregon|Beaverton]] helped Portland to consolidate its position as the primary port of Oregon, and defeat the rival efforts of settlements such as [[Oregon City, Oregon|Oregon City]] and [[Milwaukie, Oregon|Milwaukie]]. In November 2004, the County and the City of [[Beaverton, Oregon|Beaverton]] agreed to a plan where the city would annex both unincorporated residential neighborhoods as well as high-value areas of land. This would result with [[Cedar Hills, Oregon|Cedar Hills]], [[Garden Home–Whitford, Oregon|Garden Home]], [[Raleigh Hills, Oregon|Raleigh Hills]], [[West Slope, Oregon|West Slope]] being incorporated by 2010, and the communities of [[Aloha, Oregon|Aloha]], [[Bethany, Oregon|Bethany]], and [[Cedar Mill, Oregon|Cedar Mill]] at some point after that. Those plans have since been put on hold after Beaverton attempted to annex [[Nike, Inc.]]'s World Headquarters, which would have increased Nike's taxes substantially. Nike successfully lobbied the legislature for a law that would prohibit their annexation for 99 years. Since that decision, annexation plans have been halted, and Washington County started urban planning to provide city-level services to the unincorporated urban areas in the county.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 16, 2006 |title=Appellate court rejects Beaverton annexation |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2006/06/appellate_court_rejects_beaver.html |work=The Oregonian}}</ref>
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