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About Orient
Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United StatesOrient is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 462. The community is at the junction of SE Orient Drive and 302nd Avenue, near Gresham, at the rough location of the former Orient Post Office. The area was home to the Orient Mill, a steam-driven sawmill founded by Andrew MacKinnon, an 1880 Scottish immigrant. MacKinnon's wife, Miyo Iwakoshi, was the first Japanese citizen to settle in Oregon.
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