Farmington, Oregon

Farmington
Farmington
Unincorporated community
	A former diner at Farmington at intersection of River Road and Farmington Road
	Farmington Location within the state of Oregon Farmington Farmington (the United States)
	Coordinates: 45°26′56″N 122°56′52″W / 45.44889°N 122.94778°W
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Washington
Elevation	144 ft (44 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	97007
Area code(s)	503 and 971

Farmington is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States. It is located on the Tualatin River, a tributary of the Willamette, about eight miles southwest of Beaverton, at the intersection of Oregon Route 10 and River Road.^[1] It is about two miles east of the junction of OR 10 with Oregon Route 219. Farmington was one of the earliest settlements in Oregon and was prominent for a time as an important milling and grain-shipping point on the Tualatin when steamships were the principal means of shipping grain along the Willamette River.^[2] Farmington was the site of an early Christian Church, founded by 1845 pioneers in Sarah and Philip Harris, who arrived in Oregon via the Meek Cutoff.^[3]^[4] At that time the locale was called "Bridgeport".^[3] Baptisms were in the Tualatin River.^[3]

Philip Harris began ferry service, which became known as the Harris-Landess Ferry, across the Tualatin River; he later built a bridge at the same location.^[2]^[3] Today there is modern bridge there named in his honor.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 1851 there was a post office named Harris Ferry at this locale; Philip Harris was the postmaster.^[5]

The community was probably named for Farmington, Connecticut.^[6] Farmington post office was established in 1884 and closed in 1904.^[6]

The building at the crossroads that currently serves as a restaurant dates to the 1920s; most of the time it housed a tavern but at least once it served as a store.^[7]^[8] It has been a restaurant since March 2009.^[8]

The old Farmington School is about a mile and a half northwest of the crossroads on private property on Rood Bridge Road.^[9] It is one of several one-room schools, including the one at Laurel, that merged to become the current Farmington View Elementary School in the Hillsboro School District in 1950.^[9] The school is about three miles northwest of Farmington on OR 219.^[9] The bell in front of Farmington View originally hung at Laurel School.^[9]