The John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House, also known as the John Quincy Adams Young House, is a historic
American
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saltbox house built in 1869 in the U.S. state of
Oregon.
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03/03/2009. Retrieved October 19, 2013.[ (65 pages, with 22 recent photos, maps, and historic photos)] It is located in the unincorporated
Cedar Mill area of
Washington County, Oregon, near
Portland
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, and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
History
John Quincy Adams Young and his wife
Elizabeth Young settled in the area in 1862 and built a log cabin.
[Young, Hazel. "Cedar Mill recalls history, dates to 1874", ''Hillsboro Argus'', October 19, 1976, Communities: p. 19.] In 1869, they built a new home, followed by another larger one built in 1873.
[ Young served as the first postmaster of Cedar Mill starting in 1874.][ He named the community after the cedar trees in the area and for the mill he co-owned.][ The post office was located in the 1869 house, with the family living across the road in a newer home.][ Young remained as postmaster until 1882.][
The house and a half acre of land surrounding it have been owned by the ]Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District
Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District (THPRD) is a special parks district located in the eastern part of Washington County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Created in 1955, the district covers all of the city of Beaverton and many of those commu ...
(THPRD) since 2005.[Colby, Richard (January 13, 2005). "Tualatin Hills Park & Rec saves house that helped build Cedar Mill". '' The Oregonian'', "Washington County Weekly" section, p. 1.] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[
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See also
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References
External links
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Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District Web page
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John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House
listing in the Oregon Historic Sites Database of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
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Friends of John Quincy Adams Young House
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Oregon
Saltbox architecture in the United States
1869 establishments in Oregon
Houses in Washington County, Oregon
Cedar Mill, Oregon