Hillsboro settlers founded this community in 1842, later named it after David Hill, an Oregon politician. Hillsboro hosts many high-technology companies, such as Intel, locally known as the Silicon Forest.
The City of Hillsboro, known as “The Hub City”, and Washington County always embraces local cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity and has many historic business-friendly neighborhoods.
The City of Hillsboro is rolling out their favorite “Welcome to Hillsboro” and their “Glad You’re Here!” inspiring Hillsboro welcome mats to new entrepreneurs, new startups, business founders, new residents and many value-added local businesses.
In the spirit of many enterprising early settlers, local Homestead entrepreneurs have created many jobs and business opportunities in the city. With the help of local business leaders, the demand for startup ventures and the need for more goods and services has ignited the spirit of business ownership in the local Hillsboro community.
Looking to the future with confidence, the City of Hillsboro encourages its residents to become inventors and creators of startups in retail, music, printing, beauty, healthcare, legal, home repair services, medical support, CNA services, media, information technology (IT), restaurants, makeup, online sales, cleaning services, car repair, education technology to help Homestead’s local business communities to grow like Hillsboro, Oregon.