[6][7] The town became a stagecoach stop, and "Boston Mills" post office was established in 1869.

Efforts to get the Oregon and California Railroad, which was being built south from Albany, to come through Boston Mills were unsuccessful.

[5][6] Many of Boston's buildings, though not the mill itself nor the Farwell DLC homestead, were moved west to the new Shedd's Station to be near the railroad.

[9] Shedd is in western Linn County in the Willamette River valley, with Shedd Slough, a tributary of the Calapooia River, flowing northwards on the east side of town.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Shedd CDP has an area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2), all of it recorded as land.