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Verboort was named for early settler Father William Verboort in 1876.<ref name=OGN>{{Cite OGN|7th|page=}}</ref><ref name=Founded>{{cite news |url= http://www.catholicsentinel.org/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=35&ArticleID=7139 |title= Verboort founded by Dutch Catholics |work= [[Catholic Sentinel]] |date= March 1, 1991 |accessdate= 2011-03-19}}</ref> Verboort post office was established in 1893 and ran intermittently until 1919.<ref name=OGN/>
The community was founded by six [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] families.<ref name=Founded/> The group was led by John Verboort, who had traveled from the [[Netherlands]] with his family and first settled in [[Wisconsin]].<ref name=Founded/> In 1875, the group, unhappy with the soil and weather in Wisconsin, bought 550 acres of land in the Verboort area and shared a large house.<ref name=Founded/> Father William Verboort, son of John, joined family later that year.<ref name=Founded/> Father Verboort and the community built St. Francis Xavier Church, and an informal school was founded at the same time.<ref name=Founded/> In 1883, a new church was built and named Our Lady of the Visitation, while the old church was converted into a schoolhouse.<ref name=Founded/> The [[Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon]] established a convent in Verboort in 1891, and by longstanding tradition, local families provide the sisters with produce.<ref name=Founded/> In 1922, the school at Verboort and the Sisters of St. Mary who taught there were affected by the [[Oregon Compulsory Education Act]], which was later overturned by the [[United States Supreme Court]].<ref name=Founded/> The current Visitation Church building, with 150-foot [[Sequoiadendron giganteum|sequoias]] on either side, was constructed in 1959.<ref name=Friedman>{{cite book |title= In Search of Western Oregon |author= Friedman, Ralph |authorlink= Ralph Friedman |year= 1990 |edition= 2nd |page= 287 |publisher= [[Caxton Press (United States)|The Caxton Printers, Ltd]] |location= Caldwell, Idaho |isbn= 0-87004-332-3 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/insearchofwester00frie }}</ref> The sequoias were planted in 1888 by John Porter, who brought the seeds back to Oregon from [[California]] after returning from the [[California Gold Rush]] of 1849.<ref name=Friedman/><ref name=Dinner>{{cite web |url= http://www.verboort.org/dinner/ |title= The 76th Annual Verboort Sausage & Kraut Dinner |publisher= Visitation Catholic Church |accessdate= 2011-03-26}}</ref>
The church at Verboort established successful missions in [[Hillsboro, Oregon|Hillsboro]], [[Cornelius, Oregon|Cornelius]], Forest Grove, and [[Roy, Oregon|Roy]] (another Dutch Catholic community), which all became self-supporting parishes.<ref name=End>{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich |title= Oregon: End of the Trail |author= [[Federal Writers' Project|Writers' Program]] of the [[Work Projects Administration]] in the [[Government of Oregon|State of Oregon]] |series= [[American Guide Series]] |year= 1940 |publisher= [[Binfords & Mort]] |location= [[Portland, Oregon]] |page= 481 |oclc= 4874569}}</ref>
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