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Cornell Road is an east–west street and traffic corridor in the Portland metropolitan area, in Multnomah and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It crosses the Tualatin Mountains (West Hills) between the Willamette Valley and the city of Portland on the east and the Tualatin Valley and the city of Hillsboro on the west.
In 2002, GCA contracted with Clayton W. Hannon (the retired executive director of the Oregon Association of Nurserymen, now the Oregon Association of Nurseries) to manage GCA on an interim basis. In April 2005, management was moved to the Association Services Group (ASG) in LaGrange, Georgia.
1843: 18-year-old Edward Henry Lenox (from Kentucky) travels over the Oregon Trail and stakes a claim to the present farm site. 1850-59: Robert Imbrie acquires the Lenox farm and builds the current granary. 1863-66: Robert has the three-story, gabled farm home built. 1897: Robert dies. 1933: Imbries begin selling barley to Blitz-Weinhard.
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and over one-fourth of those are found partially or wholly in Portland. While these sites are widely spread across all six of Portland's quadrants, heavy concentrations are found in the Downtown and Southwest Hills neighborhoods of the Southwest ...
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 Young House, [15] built in 1869, which still stands on Cornell Road and is owned by the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District.
The John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House, also known as the John Quincy Adams Young House, is a historic American saltbox house built in 1869 in the U.S. state of Oregon. [3] [2] [4] It is located in the unincorporated Cedar Mill area of Washington County, Oregon, near Portland, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The oldest of ten buildings on this farm is the cross-wing western farmhouse that was completed in 1883. Other buildings include a two-story barn, a privy, a woodshed, and a chicken coop, amongst other structures. The farm was settled in the 1850s, with the newest building a garage completed in the 1920s. [16] 21
The Multnomah County Poor Farm is a former poor farm located in Troutdale, Oregon, United States.Established in 1911, the building and its surrounding grounds operated as a poor farm housing the ill and indigent populations in the Portland metropolitan area at the beginning of the twentieth century, after the closure of a poor farm in the city's West Hills.