Tigard Wedding

Tigard (IPA: [ta grd]) is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. The population was 41,223 at the 2000 census. According to the 2003 Oregon Blue Book, Tigard is the state's 11th largest city. [1] It is part of the Portland metropolitan area and is south of Beaverton, north of Tualatin.

Like many towns in the Willamette Valley, Tigard was originally settled by several families, the most noteworthy of which was the Tigard family, headed by Wilson M. Tigard. Arriving in the area known as "East Butte" in 1852, the family settled and became involved in organizing and building the East Butte School, a general store (which starting in 1886 housed the area's post office) and a meeting hall, and renamed East Butte to "Tigardville". The Evangelical organization built the Emanuel Evangelical Church at the foot of Bull Mountain, south of the Tigard store in 1886. A blacksmith shop was opened in the 1890s by John Gaarde across from the Tigard Store, and in 1896 a new E. Butte school was opened to handle the growth the community was experiencing from an incoming wave of German settlers.