herwood Oregon U.S.A. started to receive mail from the U. S. postal department on July 5, 1891. This town had been platted as the Town of Smockville two years earlier by James Christopher Smock and Mary Ellen Smock. The Smock plat was filed the same year (1889) the Portland and Willamette Valley Railroad arrived here. Today this nine block district is referred to as "Old Town" and features numerous sites of interest, including the original rail right of way and a road corridor once traveled by covered wagons. What is believed to be the first Ford dealership in Oregon was located on First Avenue-- across from the oldest American Legion Hall west of the Mississippi River. The Town of Sherwood was reorganized as the City of Sherwood in 1926. The City's economy was structured around the rail line and went into serious decline as trucks and automobiles replaced the passenger train. Sherwood's economy was rescued, it seems, by the Oregon Land Use Law of 1974, which required the town to share an Urban Growth Boundary with Oregon's largest city, Portland, and to join the Portland Metropolitan Service District ("Metro").