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Tigard, Oregon, started as an elegant farming community at the Tualatin Plains within the Northern Willamette Valley and become an upscale metropolitan residential community. The Native American Atfalati Kalapuyas interacted with early trappers, traders, missionaries, and pioneer settlers. Pioneers arrived within the 1850s to take up donation land claims. Tigard used to be firstly referred to as East Butte, and a lot of nationalities and religions populated the settlement. A grange used to be formed to help farmers’ causes, and churches were established to build a sense of neighborliness. East Butte become Tigardville when Charles Fremont Tigard opened a post administrative center in his general merchandise store in 1886 and named the postal station after his parents. Tigardville become Tigard when the Oregon Electric Railway came through in 1908, and residents distinguished Tigard from Wilsonville. The Oregon Electric shipped Tigard’s farm produce north to Portland and south to Salem. Tigard used to be incorporated as a city on September 11, 1961, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011.