Hillsboro is an American city of 95,000 people in the
Portland metropolitan area of
Oregon. It is the fifth-largest city in the state and serves as the
county seat of
Washington County. Located in the
Tualatin Valley on the west side of Portland, Hillsboro is home to many
high-technology companies, such as
Intel(one campus pictured) and
TriQuint, which compose what has become known as the
Silicon Forest. Other important sectors to the economy are health care, retail, and agriculture (including grapes and
local wineries). The area was inhabited by the Atfalati tribe of the
Kalapuya people prior to the arrival of European-American settlers. Hillsboro was settled in 1842 and is named after
David Hill, an Oregon politician and one of the first settlers. A railroad reached the area in the early 1870s and the city incorporated on October 19, 1876. Hillsboro has a
council–manager government consisting of a city manager and a seven-person city council headed by a mayor. The city operates more than twenty parks along with
Hillsboro Stadium and
Hillsboro Ballpark, home to Minor League Baseball's
Hillsboro Hops. Nine sites in the city are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. (
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Male (top) and female Black-breasted Thrush(Turdus dissimilis), photographed at the
Royal Agricultural Station in Ang Khang, Thailand. The common name of this species, which was first described in 1847 by
Edward Blyth, is derived from the male's breast plumage.
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