Editing Cedar Mill, Oregon (section)

===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.