Chehalem is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States, located southwest of Sherwood along Oregon Route 99W. The word "Chehalem" is a corruption of the Atfalati word "Chahelim," a name given in 1877 to one of the bands of Atfalati.
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Middleton, previously known as Stringtown, is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States. To improve communication between Portland and Lafayette, a post office was established at Middleton in 1869. A rail station was then established on July 1, 1892, soon before the post office closed, in 1905.
A November 2011 vote for the annexation of portions of Middleton north of Brookman Road by the neighboring incorporated community of Sherwood failed.
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Sherwood School District is a small school district that serves Sherwood, Oregon, United States. The administrative offices are at 21920 SW Sherwood Blvd in Sherwood.
The district currently has four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. They include Archer Glen Elementary School, Hawks' View Elementary School, Middleton Elementary School, Ridges Elementary School, Sherwood Middle School, and Sherwood High School. The Sherwood Elementary School District 88J was established in about 1891, with other elementary districts later merged into the district. The high school district and elementary districts later consolidated to form a unified school district. Dr. Aaron Downs is the current district superintendent.
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Sherwood Public Library is the library serving Sherwood in the U.S. state of Oregon. Operated by the city, it is a member of the Washington County Cooperative Library Services. Established in 1935, it has an annual circulation of around 370,000 items.
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Sherwood is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Located in the southeast corner of the county, it is a residential community in the Tualatin Valley, southwest of Portland. The population was 20,450 at the 2020 census. Sherwood was first incorporated in 1893 as a town. Originally named Smockville after its founder, James Christopher Smock, the town was given its current name by local businessman Robert Alexander in 1891. The name "Sherwood" may have come from Sherwood, Michigan or the Sherwood Forest in England.
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Laurelwood District is an American Viticultural Area located west of the city of Portland and lies entirely within the northern end of Willamette Valley AVA and within the smaller nested Chehalem Mountains AVA. The Chehalem Mountains are a main defining feature along with the area's unique soil profile, and the AVA includes portions of the towns of Cornelius, Scholls and Sherwood in Washington County. It was established as the nation's 248th, the state's 21st and the valley's tenth wine appellation on June 3, 2020 by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, Treasury after reviewing the petition submitted by Luisa Ponzi, then-winemaker of Ponzi Vineyards, Maria Ponzi, then-president of Ponzi Vineyards, and Kevin Johnson, winemaker of Dion Vineyards, on behalf of themselves and other local grape growers and vintners, proposing the viticultural area to be known as "Laurelwood."
At the request of TTB, the petitioners agreed to add the word "District" to the proposed name, in order to avoid a potential impact on current label holders who are using "Laurelwood" as a brand name or fanciful name on their wine labels. Its acreage is approximately 33,600 acres with, at the outset, is resident to 25 wineries and approximately 70 commercially-producing vineyards cultivating approximately 975 acres. The Laurelwood District's main distinguishing feature is the predominance of Laurelwood soil, a windblown loess over fractured Jory basalt. The district contains the highest concentration of the namesake soil in Oregon. Other defining features of the AVA are its location among the Chehalem Mountains - granting it the highest planted sites in the Willamette Valley, and its proximity to warm wind influence from the Columbia River Gorge.
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