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Dr. James Wood Hill (born 1856 in Westport, CT), a physician and educator who came from an old CT family and graduated Yale University in 1878, before moving west to OR that same year. Hill finished coursework at Willamette Medical School in 1880, but chose education over medicine. He established the Hill Military Academy following his tenure as President of the Bishop Scott Grammar School in Portland, OR, from 1878-1889 and then the Bishop Scott Academy in Portland, OR, from 1887-1901. Just after leaving Scott, he created the first Hill Military Academy Campus, occupying a site in northwest Portland, OR, on a small property on Marshall Street, between 24th and 25th Streets. It operated at this location from 1901-1930. In 1908, Hill Military Academy took over the buildings comprising the Bishop Scott Academy, which closed four years earlier. Hill moved to a new 150-acre property in the Rocky Butte Neighborhood of northeast Portland in 1931, offering classes there until 1959. The campus later became the Judson Baptist College, which operated until 1980, when it became another religious organization, the Bible Temple. The City of Portland, Parks and Recreation Department, opened a 2.38-acre park on a portion of this hilltop site in 1988.

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