Hawthorn Farm Village was created in the early 1980's by the Quadrant Corporation, a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser, to serve homeowners in Dawson Creek and Sunset Downs in Hillsboro, Oregon. Dawson Creek is bordered on the south by Cornell Road, on the east by Shute Road and on the north side by Airport Road. Sunset Downs is bordered on the south by Cornell Road, on the west by Shute Road and on the north side by Butler Road.

This information comes from the Quadrant Corporation who included it in the informational packet given to homeowners when they purchased property in Sunset Downs in the 1980's.

From the book, Images of America: Hillsboro 2009  by Kimberli Fitgerald and Deborah Raber with the Hillsboro Historic Landmarks Advisory Committee and published by Arcadia Publishing, on page 100 reference is made to Sunset Downs. The statement reads:

"Harold Wass Ray and his father started a food processing plant in 1926 that later became the Ray-Mailing Cannery and then Birdseye Frozen Foods. In 1933 Ray purchased more than 400 acres east of Hillsboro from Rachel Hawthorn, established a racetrack, and began raising thoroughbred racehorses. Ray was also instrumental in the creation of Portland Meadows, a racetrack in Portland. A modern subdivision near the former Ray estate is called Sunset Downs in recognition of Ray's racetrack."

An incredible race horse name Mio D'Arrezo once lived in the Sunset Downs area. Mio D'Arrezo raced at Santa Anita, Belmont Stakes and other famous race tracks around the country. His favorite track was Sunset Downs.

Mio D'Arrezo was sold to an Oregon farmer by the government of Nazi Germany, before being owned by Ray. Besides being an avid horse lover, State Senator Harold Ray, is probably best known as the grandfather of frozen foods. Ray formed a company in Oregon that would eventually be bought out by General Foods and become Birdseye.

After his racing career, Mio D'Arrezo followed the traditional path of most great race horses and returned to Sunset Downs to stud. One of the most famous race horses he sired was Mioland, fourth in the Kentucky Derby in 1940 and named the United Press Horse of the Yeas as a three-year old.

Mio D'Arrezo, as the story is told, lived the rest of his days on the site of Sunset Downs...it is rumored that he is buried somewhere on the property.

It would appear that this explains where the street names of Ray Circle in Hawthorn Farm Village came from. Greensword (pronounced Green-sword, not Greens-word), another street in Sunset Downs, is the type of grass that was grown here for good bone strength in the thoroughbreds