Editing Cedar Mill, Oregon

{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States}}
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'''Cedar Mill''' is a [[suburb]] in the [[Portland metropolitan area|Portland, Oregon metropolitan area]] of the United States; it is a [[census-designated place]] and an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Washington County, Oregon|Washington County]], north of [[U.S. Route 26 (Oregon)|U.S. Route 26]] and west of the [[Willamette Stone]]. It received its name from a sawmill on Cedar Mill Creek, which cut [[Thuja plicata|Western Redcedars]] that were once the dominant tree in the area. The mill's pond was near the intersection of 119th and Cornell Road, and could still be seen into the 1960s, although the mill itself had ceased operating in 1891. The name was established in 1874 with the opening of a U.S. post office named Cedar Mill. As of the [[United States 2020 Census|2020 census]], the community population was 17,259.

==History==

===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.

===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"/>

===20th century===
[[File:Leedy Grange - Cedar Mill, Oregon.JPG|thumb|Leedy Grange]]
The present-day Leedy Grange #339 building, near the corner of Saltzman and Cornell Roads and near the Cedar Mill Library, was built in 1900 (according to Leedy Grange 1903). It originally housed a [[Modern Woodmen of America|Modern Woodmen]] organization; however, in 1913 (1906 according to the Grange) the building was sold to the Leedy Grange, and the second story removed.<ref name="pearsongw"/> The monthly Cedar Mill Flea Market was held at the grange the first Saturday of each month but was discontinued.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grange.org/leedyor339/|title=Leedy Grange 339 - Your local Grange in Cedar Mill, Oregon}}</ref> The first Flea Market was held in June 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2010/05/sell_your_stuff_at_leedy_grange_flea_market.html|title=Sell your stuff at Leedy Grange flea market|author=Hudson, Wendy|publisher=OregonLive|date=May 21, 2010|access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref>

Public transit service to Cedar Mill was operated in the 1940s by Tualatin Valley Stages,<ref name="oreg-1943mar6">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Boulevard Busses To Resume Runs |date=March 6, 1943 |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=6}}</ref> which after 1953 became Tualatin Valley Buses, Inc.–part of a consortium of privately owned companies known as the [[Blue Bus lines|"Blue Bus" lines]]. It continued to serve the area through the 1960s,<ref name="gloomy future">{{cite news|last=Pratt |first=Gerry |title=Bus Lines Manager Sees Gloomy Future |date=August 17, 1966 |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=21}}</ref> until [[TriMet]] took over the Blue Bus lines in 1970.<ref name="takes over operation">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Tri-Met Takes Over Operation Of Blue Buses, Finds Rolling Stock In Bad Condition |date=September 9, 1970 |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=9}}</ref>

A Cedar Mill Heritage Quilt was created in the summer of 1976 by 15 local women. It detailed various aspects of Cedar Mill history.<ref name="quilting">{{cite news|title=Handicraft, rummage sale to benefit library|newspaper=Hillsboro Argus|location=Hillsboro, Oregon|date=September 16, 1976|page=3B|url=http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/19/rec/29|access-date=October 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809004713/http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16047coll4/id/19/rec/29|archive-date=August 9, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Former U.S. Senator [[Maurine Neuberger]] declared the winner of the quilting competition in September 1976.<ref name="quilting"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://washingtoncountyheritage.org/cdm/search/collection/p16047coll4/searchterm/Quilts/field/all/mode/exact/conn/and|title=Cedar Mill Heritage Quilt photographs and articles, 1976|date=1976|website=Washington County Heritage Online|access-date=17 July 2017}}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Cedar Mill Falls - Cedar Mill, Oregon (Feb. 2016).jpg|thumb|Cedar Mill Falls]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of {{convert|3.7|sqmi|km2}}, all land.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>
The appropriately named Cedar Mill Creek flows through the area. The creek begins its course in the Forest Heights neighborhood in northwest [[Multnomah County]], then passes through Cedar Mill before flowing into Beaverton Creek in [[Tualatin Hills Nature Park]]. North Johnson Creek, another waterway in the area, begins south of Cedar Mill Creek and joins the main stream at the [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] World Campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cedarmill.org/RCWP/cedar_mill_creek.html|title=Rock Creek Watershed Partners - Cedar Mill Creek|access-date=October 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705112449/http://www.cedarmill.org/RCWP/cedar_mill_creek.html|archive-date=July 5, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cedar Mill Falls is the area's only waterfall, flowing near the Cedar Mill Greenway and JQA Young House. The waterfall, formerly used to provide power for the mill, is a 32-foot high basaltic rock formation.<ref name="pearsongw"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/nws/falls.php?num=3617|title=Cedar Mill Falls}}</ref> The Sue Conger Memorial Boardwalk, opened in June 2013, allows visitors of all abilities to view the falls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2013/06/cedar_mill_falls_more_accessib.html|title=Cedar Mill Falls more accessible with new boardwalk|author=Marum, Anna|publisher=OregonLive|date=June 10, 2013|access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedarmill.org/news/811/Boardwalk.html|title=Where's the Cedar Mill Falls boardwalk?|author=Bruce, Virginia|publisher=The Cedar Mill News|date=August 1, 2011|access-date=October 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910070410/http://cedarmill.org/news/811/Boardwalk.html|archive-date=September 10, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The only lake in the area is Hartung Lake, in the Hartung Farms neighborhood. Johnson Creek also flows through the area.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|2020= 17259
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As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 12,597 people, 4,723 households, and 3,428 families residing in the CDP. The population density was {{convert|3,388.3|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 4,951 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1,331.7|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the CDP was 85.42% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.86% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.41% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 7.47% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.21% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 2.70% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2.94% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 6.09% of the population.

There were 4,723 households, out of which 39.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.8% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.4% were non-families. 21.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.12.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 28.4% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 31.1% from 25 to 44, 25.5% from 45 to 64, and 8.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.0 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $65,730, and the median income for a family was $79,529. Males had a median income of $62,901 versus $36,369 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the CDP was $33,555. About 4.7% of families and 6.7% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 7.4% of those under age 18 and 5.0% of those age 65 or over.

==Infrastructure and services==
[[File:Columbia Sportswear headquarters - Cedar Mill, Oregon.jpg|thumb|right|The headquarters for [[Columbia Sportswear]] are located in Cedar Mill.]]
[[File:Sunset Swim Center - Beaverton, Oregon (2017).jpg|thumb|right|Sunset Swim Center, located adjacent to [[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]]]]
[[File:Cedar Mill Community Library - Oregon.JPG|thumb|left|Cedar Mill Community Library]]

Fire protection and EMS services are provided through [[Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue]].<ref name="about tvfr">{{cite web|title=About TVF&R|url=http://www.tvfr.com/index.aspx?NID=93|publisher=Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue|access-date=13 March 2014}}</ref>  Cedar Mill is served by the [[Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District]] (THPRD), which maintains several parks and a few nature trails in the area, as well as the Sunset Swim Center (public swimming pool adjacent to and used by [[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]]).<ref name=thprd-swim>{{cite web|title=Sunset Swim Center|url=http://www.thprd.org/aquatics/sunset/home.cfm|publisher=[[Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District]]|access-date=2014-10-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Uno|first1=Wesley|title=Swim center will host reopening festivities|url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty_impact/2009/06/swim_center_will_host_reopenin.html|access-date=2014-10-22|work=[[The Oregonian]]|date=June 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112703/http://blog.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty_impact/2009/06/swim_center_will_host_reopenin.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Among parks is [[Cedar Mill Park]].

Like all areas in the Portland metro area, Cedar Mill residents receive ''[[The Oregonian]]''. Virginia Bruce operates the ''Cedar Mill News'', a monthly newsletter running since January 2003.<ref name=oreg-2011jan>{{cite news|last=Tims|first=Dana|title=Virginia Bruce's bailiwick spans Cedar Mill News, Leedy Grange, community festivals and the business association|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2011/01/virginia_bruces_bailiwick_spans_cedar_mill_news_leedy_grange_community_festivals_and_the_business_as.html|access-date=December 10, 2013|newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]|date=January 14, 2011<!--(print edition of Jan. 15)-->|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214071643/http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2011/01/virginia_bruces_bailiwick_spans_cedar_mill_news_leedy_grange_community_festivals_and_the_business_as.html|archive-date=December 14, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Cedar Mill News'' was known as ''The Milltowner'' in its first edition, but by February 2003 had been changed to its present form, the ''Cedar Mill News''.<ref name=milltowner>{{cite web|url=http://cedarmill.org/news/pdf/1-3.pdf|title=The Milltowner - Volume I, Issue 1|publisher=The Cedar Mill News|author=Bruce, Virginia|date=January 1, 2003|access-date=October 18, 2015}}</ref> A local business association known as the Cedar Mill Business Association is involved in the area.<ref name="milltowner"/>

The so-called "downtown" of the CDP is located along Cornell Road from approximately Sunset High School to just past the intersection with Saltzman Road.

===Library===
A non-profit organization named the Cedar Mill Community Library Association (founded in 1974) opened the area's first public library in 1976, located in a shopping center at the intersection of Cornell Road and Saltzman Road (the Milltowner Shopping Center).<ref name="oreg-1988mar">Ostergren, Jack (March 3, 1988). "Cedar Mill Library to triple its floor space". ''[[The Oregonian]]'', West Zoner section, p. 1.</ref><ref name="association">{{cite web|url=http://library.cedarmill.org/about/library-association/|title=Library Association|publisher=Cedar Mill Library Association|access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref> Following expansions in 1978, 1988 and 2001, the Cedar Mill Community Library now occupies {{convert|24500|sqft|m2}} of space.<ref name="about library">{{cite web| title = About Cedar Mill Community Library| publisher = Washington County Cooperative Library Services| url = http://www.wccls.org/libraries/cedarmill| access-date = May 4, 2013}}</ref>  The current site is in a former [[Rodgers Stores|Rodgers]] store, which closed in 1988 and was remodeled for the library, which previously had been located in much smaller space in another building in the same shopping center.<ref name="oreg-1988mar"/>  The library was expanded in 2000–2001<ref name="about library"/> through construction of a new two-story addition at the west end.<ref name="oreg-2000may">Colby, Richard (May 11, 2000). "Bales enlarges the Cedar Mill Library; the food business will spend $1&nbsp;million on the project". ''The Oregonian'', West Zoner section, p. 1.</ref> The Library Association operates both the Cedar Mill and [[Bethany, Oregon|Bethany]] libraries.<ref name="association"/>

===Schools===
[[File:Sunset High School front - Beaverton, Oregon (2015).jpg|thumb|[[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]] is located within the historic Cedar Mill area, but since 1999 the portion of the Cedar Mill CDP it occupies has been within Beaverton.]]
The school district covering the CDP is [[Beaverton School District|Beaverton School District 48J]]<!--UNI 01920*--><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st41_or/schooldistrict_maps/c41067_washington/DC20SD_C41067.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Washington County, OR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-03-24}}</ref>

Public schools which have attendance boundaries covering the Cedar Mill CDP (as of 2020) include the following schools. Elementary schools include Bonny Slope (in the CDP), Cedar Mill (in the CDP), Findley, and Terra Linda (in the CDP). Middle schools with sections of Cedar Mill in their boundaries include Tumwater and Cedar Park, both in Beaverton. [[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]] is the public high school with Cedar Mill in its attendance boundary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st41_or/place/p4112150_cedar_mill/DC20BLK_P4112150.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Cedar Mill CDP, OR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-03-24}} - Compare to school locations and attendance boundary maps. [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st41_or/place/p4112150_cedar_mill/DC10BLK_P4112150_001.pdf See 2010 map].</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/departments/long-range-planning/boundary-information|title=School Attendance Areas|publisher=[[Beaverton School District|Beaverton School District 48J]]|access-date=2024-03-24}}</ref>

In the [[1990 U.S. Census]], the land containing Sunset HS was in the Cedar Mill CDP.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st41_Oregon/41067_Washington/90B41067_000.pdf|title=1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP (RECREATED): WASHINGTON County|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|page=[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st41_Oregon/41067_Washington/90B41067_039.pdf 39]|access-date=2024-03-31}} - Compare page 39 to the physical location of the school.</ref> In 1999, the area with the school was annexed by the City of Beaverton.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bruce |first=Virginia |title=Beaverton in Cedar Mill |date=January 2007 |work=The Cedar Mill News |url=https://cedarmillnews.com/legacy/archive/107/beavrton_in_cm.html|access-date=2024-03-31}} - Compare the map to the physical location of the school.</ref>

Private schools include [[Catlin Gabel School]], Prince of Peace Lutheran School,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.poplconline.org/school-ministries/ |title=Preschool, Pre-K & Kindergarten Lutheran School &#124; Prince of Peace &#124; Portland Lutheran Preschool, Kindergarten & Church |access-date=2015-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424205452/http://www.poplconline.org/school-ministries/ |archive-date=2017-04-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and St. Pius X Catholic School (of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon]]).

===School history===
The first school district serving Cedar Mill, along with nearby [[Bethany, Oregon|Bethany]], the Union School District (District 6), was established in 1856. The first school, serving grades 1 through 8, was built on land donated by pioneer Samuel Walters. The one-room Union School building, built in 1884 and located on what is now N.W. 143rd Avenue adjacent to the Union Cemetery, was replaced by a new two-room building on the same site in 1901, and the school remained in operation until 1948.<ref name="pearsongw"/><ref name=Varner>{{cite book|last1=Varner|first1=Gerald H.|title=School Days: A History of Public Schools In and Around Beaverton, Oregon, 1856–2000|date=2000|publisher=<!--Gerald H. Varner-->|isbn=0-9642353-3-1|pages=21–22, 30–33}}</ref> District 6 was divided twice in the 1880s, with the eastern portion becoming the new Cedar Mill School District in 1883 and the northwestern portion becoming the Bethany School District in 1887 (serving the Bethany and [[Rockcreek, Oregon|Rock Creek]] areas, not Cedar Mill).  The Union and Bethany districts consolidated in 1948, renamed as Sunset Valley School District.  In 1960, the Cedar Mill and Sunset Valley Districts were absorbed by a greatly expanded Beaverton School District (District 48).<ref name=Varner/>

Another former school in the area was Sunset Valley Elementary School, which was built in 1948 to replace Union School and was located on Murray Road immediately north of [[Sunset Highway (Oregon)|Sunset Highway]]. In 1979, shortly before the school's closure in spring 1980, the building was acquired by [[Electro Scientific Industries]]<ref name=oreg-1980apr8>{{cite news|last=Leeson|first=Jeanne|title=Worthwhile experience: Children, industry share school rooms|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=April 8, 1980|edition=Washington County|page=W1}}</ref> (whose main campus was located nearby) and used as ESI's administrative headquarters until the mid-1990s, when it was razed and replaced by a [[The Home Depot|Home Depot]] store.<ref name=Varner/>

==Notable people==
*[[Aparna Brielle]], actress<ref name="oreg-2018apr">{{cite news|first=Kristi|last=Turnquist|title=Portland native Aparna Brielle on playing a brainy student in NBC's 'A.P. Bio'|newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]|date=April 5, 2018|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/tv/2018/04/portland_native_aparna_brielle.html |access-date=2018-04-23}}</ref>
*[[Luis Palau]], evangelist<ref name="palau-oregonian-mar2013">{{cite news|last1=Haught|first1=Nancy|title=Pope Francis: Luis Palau of Cedar Mill considers him a personal friend|newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]|date=March 13, 2013|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2013/03/pope_francis_luis_palau_of_ced.html|access-date=2018-05-04}}</ref>
*[[Mike Remmers]], NFL Player
*[[Katee Sackhoff]], Actress

==See also==
* [[Cedar Hills, Oregon]] – nearby area with a similar name

==References==
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==Works cited==
* {{cite book|last1=Brody|first1=Linda S.|last2=Olson|first2=Nancy A.|title=Cedar Mill History|year=1978|lccn=78073338}}

==External links==
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* [http://cedarmill.org/ Cedar Mill community website]
* [http://library.cedarmill.org Cedar Mill Library website]
* [http://cedarmillnews.com/ Cedar Mill News]

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