Editing Cedar Mill, Oregon (section)

===Mill and post office===
[[File:Front of JQA Young House in Cedar Mill, Oregon (2015).jpg|thumb|left|Historic John and Elizabeth Young House in Cedar Mill, 2015]]
According to ''[[Oregon Geographic Names]]'', a "Cedar Mill" post office was established in 1874, in the [[John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House|John Quincy Adams Young House]],<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 95</ref> built in 1869, which still stands on Cornell Road and is owned by the [[Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District]].  The name was chosen by Young, who had "been commissioned to establish a post office in the area"<ref name=history94>Brody and Olson, p. 94</ref> and been named the first postmaster.  The Young–Everson sawmill, specializing in cedar products, was still the only business operating in the area at the time and was also located directly adjacent to the post office, making "Cedar Mill" a logical choice for the name of the new postal station.<ref name=history94/> Around the same time, in 1874, Young retired from milling, sold the mill to Everson, and moved his family into a new, larger house on the north side of Cornell Road, just across from the 1869-built house that was now being used as a post office.<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 47</ref> Along with the post office, Young also operated a small store on the ground floor of his former house.<ref>Brody and Olson, pp. 48, 95</ref> In 1976, the Russell family of Cedar Mill had owned the house since 1914.<ref name=pearsongw>{{cite book|last=Pearson|first=Gertrude Walters|title=Heritage Quilt of Cedar Mill - An Oregon Community|pages=1–16|publisher=Washington County Heritage Online|url=http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/17/rec/5|date=1976|access-date=October 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630043247/http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/17/rec/5|archive-date=June 30, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

John Q. A. Young served as Cedar Mill postmaster until December 1881.  His successor, George Reeves, moved the post office in 1882 to a new [[general store]] that Reeves opened in that year, located just northwest of the intersection of Barnes and Cornell Roads. The Cedar Mill post office, always located within a store, was moved two more times before closing on July 3, 1904.<ref>Brody and Olson, p. 96</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Quilted Cedar Mill heritage to help library|newspaper=Beaverton Valley Times|location=Beaverton, Oregon|date=August 1, 1976|url=http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/18/rec/3|access-date=October 27, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The final stamp cancelled at the post office was owned in 1976 by Bernard P. Young, a descendant of John and Elizabeth Young.<ref name="pearsongw"/>