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Boring is an unincorporated community located in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 212. It is located approximately eight miles south of Gresham and about the same distance from Clackamas, both suburbs of Portland. The town is roughly southeast from downtown Portland.〔Rand McNally. ''State Farm Road Atlas'' Chicago: Rand McNally, 2012, p. 84.〕 Named after William H. Boring, a farmer who settled the area in the 1870s, Boring was officially founded as a railroad town in 1903 after the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company constructed a line to the town.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Boring CPO.com )〕 The former railway is now part of the Springwater Corridor, a rail trail which begins in Boring and ends at the Eastbank Esplanade in downtown Portland. In 2012, the town was paired as a sister city to the town of Dull, Scotland, United Kingdom. ==History== The community was named after William H. Boring, an early resident of the area who began farming there in the 1870s.〔 Boring was a Union veteran who had moved out to Oregon after the Civil War. Boring died in 1932 at the age of 91 and was buried beside his wife Sarah in Damascus Pioneer Cemetery.〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Boring&GSfn=william&GSmn=H&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=8033579&df=all&〕 Boring was platted in 1903 as "Boring Junction".〔 The post office was established and named "Boring" the same year, and the builders of the interurban railway adopted Boring as the name of the community.〔 An electric trolley operated on the railroad line to Portland, Oregon and Gresham, which began boarding passengers in 1905.〔 The electric trolley severely cut travel time to and from the city; horse and buggy travel from Boring to Portland took an average of six hours, while a trip to Portland via the trolley system took only one hour.〔 Though younger students in the area attended a local school built on Richey Road, high school students in Boring commuted via trolley to Gresham and Portland to attend high schools there.〔 After World War II and the prominence of automobile ownership, the trolley ceased passenger operations to Portland, but continued to travel between Boring and Gresham.〔 The railway went defunct in the following years, and was incorporated as part of the Springwater Corridor, a rail trail that begins in Boring and ends at the Eastbank Esplanade in downtown Portland. In 2005, citizens of Boring applied to become one of the first legally recognized villages in Oregon.〔http://web4.co.clackamas.or.us/mrm/1547.html〕 However, after many months of polarizing debate on the village issue, residents narrowly defeated the village designation in a town hall referendum in August 2006, with 293 votes in favor and 298 against. The unusual name of the town often prompts its inclusion on lists of unusual place names.〔(TripAtlas )〕 The name "Boring" is embraced by locals, however, and found in many local businesses, resulting in many road signs that seem humorous to outsiders. Boosters of the village designation use the slogan "The most exciting place to live."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Boring Village )〕 In June 2012, in a play on the town's name, the Boring Community Planning Organization voted to "pair" with Dull, Scotland, for the purpose of promoting tourism in both towns. Dull is a tiny village of only 84 residents, while Boring has about 8,000. In 2013, a farm community and former gold prospecting site Bland Shire in West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia was added to the mix to create not a "twinned town" relationship but a "League of Extraordinary Communities" grouping Dull, Boring and Bland as a means of encouraging travel,〔 promoting all three communities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boring, Oregon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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