page_title: Cedar Mill, Oregon
section_title: Mill and post office
hierarchical_section_title: Cedar Mill, Oregon / History / Mill and post office
caption_attribution_description: English: The historic John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House (built 1869), located at 12050 Northwest Cornell Road in the unincorporated community of Cedar Mill, Oregon (west of Portland), is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The Tualatin Hills Park &amp; Recreation District owns the house, and hopes to restore it when and if funds become available. This view is of the front of the house, its north side (facing Cornell Road). This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 03000693 More images
context_page_description: Cedar Mill is a suburb in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area of the United States; it is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Washington County, north of U.S. Route 26 and west of the Willamette Stone. It received its name from a sawmill on Cedar Mill Creek, which cut 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 2010 census, the community population was 14,546.
context_section_description: According to Oregon Geographic Names, a "Cedar Mill" post office was established in 1874, in the John Quincy Adams Young House, 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" 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. 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. Along with the post office, Young also operated a small store on the ground floor of his former house. In 1976, the Russell family of Cedar Mill had owned the house since 1914.
  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. The final stamp cancelled at the post office was owned in 1976 by Bernard P. Young, a descendant of John and Elizabeth Young.
caption: Historic John and Elizabeth Young House in Cedar Mill, 2015
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