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HISTORY OF BORING<\/span>
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\u00a0Boring is located along Oregon Highway 212, approximately eight miles south of Gresham and about the same distance from Clackamas, both suburbs of Portland.\u00a0 The town comprises of two intersections, an elementary school and a middle school, a branch of the Clackamas County Bank, a U.S. Post Office, the headquarters of the Boring Rural Fire District, as well as other businesses.\u00a0 The community was named for W. H. Boring, an early resident of the area.\u00a0 Boring was platted in 1903 as “Boring Junction.”\u00a0 The post office was established and named “Boring” the same year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Boring was a timber industry\u00a0town throughout much of the 20th century. The Portland Traction Company, a now-defunct railroad operated a rail line from Portland (near the current location of OMSI\u00a0on the\u00a0Willamette River)\u00a0to Boring via Gresham.\u00a0 In the 1950’s\u00a0the Southern Pacific\u00a0 and Union Pacific\u00a0railroads jointly took over operation of the remaining portion of the line for freight operations.<\/p>\n

Much of the line has since been purchased by local governments with the intention of creating a long-distance bike trail and park area.\u00a0 In 2005, by narrow vote, Boring was incorporated into “Villiage” status.<\/p>\n

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