Shedd is an

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and

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(CDP) in Linn County,

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, United States, on

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. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 204.

History

In 1858, a community and

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was established about a mile and a half east of the present town of Shedd and called "Boston", probably because one of the founders came from Boston, Massachusetts. Boston was

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ted in 1861 with a

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-style

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. The town became a

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stop, and "Boston Mills" post office was established in 1869. Efforts to get the

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, which was being built south from Albany, to come through Boston Mills were unsuccessful. The railroad was instead built through the nearby land donated by Civil War veteran Captain Frank Shedd, and "Shedd's Station" was created in 1871. The post office was moved soon after. Many of Boston's buildings, though not the mill itself nor the Farwell DLC homestead, were moved west to the new Shedd's Station to be near the railroad. In 1899, the railroad changed the name of the station to "Shedd", but the name of the post office did not change until 1915. East of Shedd at the former site of Boston Mills, on the

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, is the

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-listed Boston Flour Mill (aka Thompson's Flouring Mill), Oregon's oldest continuously operating water-powered mill, part of Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site. It is one of the four remaining gristmills in the state, and one of only two mills still in operation.

Geography

Shedd is in western Linn County in the

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valley, with Shedd Slough, a tributary of the Calapooia River, flowing northwards on the east side of town.

passes through the center of town, leading north to Albany and south to Halsey. According to the

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, the Shedd CDP has an area of , all of it recorded as land.

Demographics

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{{Authority control Populated places established in 1858 Unincorporated communities in Linn County, Oregon Census-designated places in Oregon 1858 establishments in Oregon Territory Unincorporated communities in Oregon

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