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Rockaway Fire August 31, 1934
2023-02-16 05:53
Rockaway Fire, August 31, 1934
Tillamook mail delivery 2/1/1913
2023-01-27 05:19
Feb 3/ We are still working on this mail.
Dear Loraine
Received some Sentinel today in the bunch of delayed mail which I think came from you. And work & thank you very very much. They were ju...
Spruce to Win the War
2023-01-19 06:59
Warren Spruce Company after Siletz Spruce
Jae. Manary, representing the Warren Spruce Co., arrived in Toledo last Saturday and at once making arrangements to get the Siletz spruce for th...
Early 20th Century Newport, Oregon
2022-12-19 06:10
Camping on the Oregon Coast
2022-12-19 06:06
1925 Ferry at Walport, Oregon
2022-12-17 09:11
Message on the back of the postcard:
1915 Barview Hit By Storm
2022-12-15 07:39
Booster Clubs and Brass Bands, Tillamook County
2022-12-13 08:02
Many communities had booster clubs which included bands. Besides those pictured, Tillamook, Bay City, and Wheeler also had city booster club bands. Sometimes the bands would gather an...
1910 Lincoln County Fair
2022-12-12 06:22
In 1893, Lincoln County, Oregon, was created with Toledo as the county seat. The county seat was changed to Newport in 1953.
1910 Newport Waterfront
2022-12-10 06:21
Hebo Postcard Highlights Modes of Transportation
2022-12-09 06:11
I was studying the Hebo postcard (below) when I discovered this scene, showing a glimpse of all the modes of transportation at the beginning of the 20th century. (I like to think that the man re...
Bay Ocean
2022-12-08 05:56
Bay Ocean
While hunting and sightseeing, T.I. Potter discovered the area that would become Bay Ocean. He purchased the land with his father/business partner, Thomas Benton Potter.
Bay ...
February 1913, Wreck of the Mimi
2022-12-07 09:46
Wreck of the Mimi, February 1913 and (attempted) Garibaldi Rescue, April 1913
The Mimi was an iron hulled sailing ship built in 1893 in Germany. A low dense fog in February 1913 camouflaged ...
Agate Beach, Newport
2022-12-06 08:00
Newport Bay Front 1910
2022-12-06 07:58
Tressel and tunnel. Newport, Oregon
2022-12-05 17:57
The Oregon Pacific Railroad built the line between Corvallis and Yaquina Bay in the 1870s. This line was named the Corvallis and Eastern Rail Road. In 1907, the Southern Pacific bought the line...
Mill No. 2 & Camp 1. Toledo, Oregon
2022-12-05 17:18
Note the dredge, Oregon, on the river. There is a partial view of it behind the building. 1918
Spruce workers enjoy the news from home near Newport, Oregon
2022-12-05 16:11
Yachats 1921
2022-12-05 08:52
Lincoln County Leader, August 12. 1021:
"Anyone would be proud to live at Yachats, of the scenery, the fishing, crabs, clams, etc. nothing more need be said, as they have been eulogized many ti...
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2022-12-05 07:30
A native of the Oregon coast, Bruce Walker has collected hundreds of postcards of Tillamook, Newport, and the surrounding communities from the late 19th century and early 20th century. Real pict...
Taft, Oregon
2022-12-03 07:39
1913 Taft Post Office and Co-op Store
2022-12-03 07:22
Taft is a new port office in Lincoln County at the mouth of Siletz bay. Ed Stanton is assisting in the Post Office during the absence of Postmaster Arnold.
Lincoln Cou...
1908 Dr. Hawk's Bay City Hospital
2022-12-02 08:19
Dr. Hawk
Dr. Hawk was in Tombstone the day of the gunfight at the OK Corral, wich may have given him the idea to move west. He and his family settled in Jefferson, neear Salem, Oregon. In 1905...
Tillamook Train Station
2022-12-02 08:01
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