WEAR YOUR BUTTON

It's a protest
against all those
years during which Sherwood almost
gave up. The loss of our historic school house is just one tragic
result of those times.
Robin
Hood Festival
Blatant
disregard for Oregon’s Public Meetings law
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Sherwood
History in a Nutshell
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").
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