Cedar Mill is a suburb in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan Place of the United States; it is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Washington County, north of U.S. Route 26 and west of the Willamette Stone. It acknowledged its proclaim from a sawmill upon Cedar Mill Creek, which cut Western Redcedars that were subsequently the dominant tree in the area. The mill’s pond was near the intersection of 119th and Cornell Road, and could yet be seen into the 1960s, although the mill itself had ceased functional in 1891. The state was established in 1874 like the initiation of a U.S. post office named Cedar Mill. As of the 2010 census, the community population was 14,546.

Before white agreement the estate was inhabited by the Atfalati, a subgroup of the Kalapuya, called the “Tualatin” or “Wapato Lake Indians” by settlers. Nearby Beaverton was known by the Natives as “Cha Kepi”, meaning “Place of the Beaver”. While in 1782 the native population exceeded several thousand, due to diseases brought by the settlers sixty years later, in 1842, the population was merely six hundred. By 1890 the members of the tribe had been reduced to 28 and the last known speaker of the Tualatin language, Louis Kenoyer, died in 1936. Early settlers in the Place would recall Native Americans passing through the area, visiting their former lands.

Most of the house in the area, as was typical in the Tualatin Valley, was approved in taking office with the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850. Pioneer Samuel Walters was the first white settler to arrive in the area, doing suitably in 1847. William Cornell, namesake of Cornell Road, settled near what is now the easternmost allocation of Cedar Mill following his wife Emily in 1852. The area became a literary district in 1856.

The sawmill was normal in 1859 by John Halsey Jones and his father, Justus, and was the “first organized business” in what is now Cedar Mill. Plans for the mill, which was located on the south side of Cornell Road at McDaniel Road (now N.W. 119th Avenue), were standard as to come as 1855 by the 23-year dated Jones. The Jones Sawmill was sold in December 1869 to John Quincy Adams Young and William Everson, becoming the Young–Everson Mill. It was renamed the Young Brothers Sawmill after J.Q.A. Young’s sons Linc and Jasper acquired it. It ceased operation in 1891 and was only in 1892.