tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52722609154725898532024-03-17T20:04:37.855-07:00Bayoceanthe Oregon resort destroyed by the seaJerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-14331869507640787242023-09-24T08:56:00.005-07:002023-09-25T06:32:47.597-07:00Competition for Bayocean's Natatorium<div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisfw2T0dSbtic6DS9mVvwUtmyHP2CPYSI7CrYuZbqV_NKlpCPStg1meCx6uvad8IXYAA7MhJR_HVHbZCu35lazDU2l3K24q0yoN4ql2d99n_46vdyhOqJ-TX-YnuojChoiInX3s_3N0Q77_NuqC5Ma7sjOh1KWVikOH9DUUUogB2VYuzd2pTZod55PHA/s2948/BOB95%20-%20Natatorium,%20Bayocean,%20Oregon%20-%20Before%20the%20washout..tif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2068" data-original-width="2948" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisfw2T0dSbtic6DS9mVvwUtmyHP2CPYSI7CrYuZbqV_NKlpCPStg1meCx6uvad8IXYAA7MhJR_HVHbZCu35lazDU2l3K24q0yoN4ql2d99n_46vdyhOqJ-TX-YnuojChoiInX3s_3N0Q77_NuqC5Ma7sjOh1KWVikOH9DUUUogB2VYuzd2pTZod55PHA/w400-h280/BOB95%20-%20Natatorium,%20Bayocean,%20Oregon%20-%20Before%20the%20washout..tif" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bayocean Natatorium. BOB95, Tillamook County <br />Pioneer Museum.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>On July 5, 1914, the Bayocean Natatorium </span>offered heated, saltwater bathing to the public for the first time (it opened a day earlier, but the boiler didn't work, so it was a chilly dip for those who initiated it). The building took up five oceanfront lots and was more than two stories high. A balcony let folks watch swimmers and kids paddling inflatable canoes around during the day and enjoy movies on a screen pulled down from the rafters at night. Sometimes bands played there. The Bayocean Natatorium quickly became the resort's most popular attraction. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #292929; font-size: large;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXJr3PW-btukWDEtrLFH-vVUvPZ0vq7m-FgwfRqthhszLaVH-6_Zww-HEZ6VBrfTUcjcXuy6VKzr_mDwQDdGMO46wnS1Q42QDnb4QgFE0KmdqmBCt3ABrT7Rc7V_Az0qH8uUzxtD6hM6Yh0p4YED51fdm9dIrMiO3v-YU8b516LwdrGkXsDU1POmCN3ucz" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="1021" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXJr3PW-btukWDEtrLFH-vVUvPZ0vq7m-FgwfRqthhszLaVH-6_Zww-HEZ6VBrfTUcjcXuy6VKzr_mDwQDdGMO46wnS1Q42QDnb4QgFE0KmdqmBCt3ABrT7Rc7V_Az0qH8uUzxtD6hM6Yh0p4YED51fdm9dIrMiO3v-YU8b516LwdrGkXsDU1POmCN3ucz=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seaside's first natatorium was the two-story <br />part of the Turnaround Building, on the right<br />(south) side of this photo. The Trendwest Resort <br />stands there now. Seaside Museum image.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bayocean Park ads started promising a natatorium after news that construction of <a href="https://www.mailtribune.com/business/2005/02/14/natatorium-plunged-out-of-existence/" target="_blank">Ashland Mineral Springs Natatorium</a> - the first in Oregon -had begun reached Portland in 1909. But </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292929;"><span>by the time it was finished, three others operated along the Oregon Coast. <a href="http://pdxhistory.com/html/gearhart.html" target="_blank">Gearhart Park</a> started advertising its little natatorium in the <i>Oregonian</i> on May 22, 1910. The one at <a href="https://beachconnection.net/news/nye_beach_natatorium_history.php" target="_blank">Nye Beach</a> opened in 1912. J.S. Oates placed the first ad for his Seaside Natatorium in the <i>O</i></span></span><i style="color: #292929;">regon Journal </i><span style="color: #292929;">on June 3, 1914. That allowed him to claim its</span><span style="color: #292929;"> </span><span style="color: #292929;">40' x 80' </span><span style="color: #292929;">pool was the largest in the Pacific Northwest until Bayocean's 50' x 160' pool opened a month later. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292929;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>T. </span><span style="color: #292929;">Irving Potter tried to regain lost ground by making his natatorium larger than the rest and installing a wave generator he invented. The first of its kind had been used at the outdoor </span><span><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_pool" target="_blank">Bilzbad baths</a> in Radebeul, Germany since 1911, but Bayocean's was the first indoor application. </span></span></span><span style="color: #292929;">Unfortunately, it was difficult to maintain and was offline more often than it worked. The rest of the structure also required constant maintenance, which is why it lost money every year it was open.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292929;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292929;">When </span><span style="color: black;"><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLT8QsrHTSgBa85uR8AT-vsPguBvvd6CslWTG2y9YUFAI8mA9MZOzxh_y7l3HXhkxtb7zJld2_yQlQ8vKxqCTMTq7WjfYMLcmRIGrTGrfnHO7kLAIWtOXzybuV0FZjdwIIt440NJN11UceNKDW5VYNLMahjvWbgBWTTLh-CpMNkTuDILgeHFJ9TDvavw/s2105/BOB68%20-%20duplicate%20of%20BOB20%20-Natatorium%20at%20Bayocean,%20early%20destruction..tif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1665" data-original-width="2105" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLT8QsrHTSgBa85uR8AT-vsPguBvvd6CslWTG2y9YUFAI8mA9MZOzxh_y7l3HXhkxtb7zJld2_yQlQ8vKxqCTMTq7WjfYMLcmRIGrTGrfnHO7kLAIWtOXzybuV0FZjdwIIt440NJN11UceNKDW5VYNLMahjvWbgBWTTLh-CpMNkTuDILgeHFJ9TDvavw/w320-h253/BOB68%20-%20duplicate%20of%20BOB20%20-Natatorium%20at%20Bayocean,%20early%20destruction..tif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BOB 68, Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. </td></tr></tbody></table>the <a href="https://www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/best-of-history-famed-journalist-writer-paul-pintarich-shared-memories-of-rockaways-natatorium/" target="_blank">Rockaway Natatorium</a> was finished in 1926, folks started going there instead of Bayocean because it was much easier to get to and better maintained. As a result, the Tillamook-Bayocean Company (a group of local businessmen) could find no one to lease Bayocean's natatorium, so it stayed closed in 1927 and never reopened to the public. In 1932, erosion that had been moving the waves closer for a decade undercut the west wall during a winter storm, causing it to collapse. The building was later deconstructed and used to build the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2017/06/sherwood-house.html" target="_blank">Sherwood House</a> on Cape Meares. Bayocean Natatorium competitors all lasted longer, but t</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span>he only one still standing is the second one built at </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span>Seaside, which now hosts the <a href="https://www.beachconnection.net/news/natator040316_1102.php" target="_blank">Seaside Aquarium</a>. </span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">See the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" style="color: #cc6611; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Index</a> for more articles that might be of interest.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span></span></span><span style="text-align: center;"></span></div>
Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.comTillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-73810784932003130002023-09-10T16:57:00.004-07:002023-09-11T06:15:18.331-07:00The Hillsboro Connection<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO6drT5e2xC2FCOsMTicuJpjimQlvXyc7zkI-IP580q03f9Ib_EtTVeRWOUarYlpVMGppRYWj8pZingZZfFZKrY5d1aTy2oCQADuV6qLTlYD2e9Qa6ygEwZIr_VS9ikYj_7Gt2AfbBYxdpOnzdYiJhTDPrnUU1pTvkCNDxXCBZTQsLm1wV-zG2pvfyFeFS/s4800/Hillsboro%20depot%20from%20NE%20historical,%20Oregon%20Encyclopedia,%20Oregon%20Electric%20Railway%20by%20Richard%20Thompson,%20courtesy%20of%20Mark%20Moore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3006" data-original-width="4800" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO6drT5e2xC2FCOsMTicuJpjimQlvXyc7zkI-IP580q03f9Ib_EtTVeRWOUarYlpVMGppRYWj8pZingZZfFZKrY5d1aTy2oCQADuV6qLTlYD2e9Qa6ygEwZIr_VS9ikYj_7Gt2AfbBYxdpOnzdYiJhTDPrnUU1pTvkCNDxXCBZTQsLm1wV-zG2pvfyFeFS/w400-h250/Hillsboro%20depot%20from%20NE%20historical,%20Oregon%20Encyclopedia,%20Oregon%20Electric%20Railway%20by%20Richard%20Thompson,%20courtesy%20of%20Mark%20Moore.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Postcard courtesy of Mark Moore, <a href="https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/oregon_electric_railway/" target="_blank">"Oregon Electric Railway"</a> <br />by Richard Thompson, <i>Oregon Encyclopedia.</i> </td></tr></tbody></table>Bayocean was closely connected to Hillsboro from the start. Sales and construction of the resort would not have begun if, in September 1906, Elmer Lytle had not promised Tillamook County completion of his Pacific Railway and Navigation Company (PNRC) by the end of 1908 in exchange for their guaranteeing rights of way from the county line and land for a Tillamook Station. Lytle did not keep his promise - which was the primary reason the resort failed financially <i> - </i>but passengers from Portland could travel to Tillamook (after reaching Hillsboro on the Oregon Electric Railway) on the PNRC after November 10, 1911. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZo6Zjo4IY0j286HeyB-3Umzf63-6lbjwfrbjYik4Kn_e386U5FKqbbN6uVx6-7BmfpCZjCgFzo4cEH41_C0Rkl7U_gaeN3NZ4wQkrnFqAnAMwGgsMWV0X-xD7ZSa8SlIDibvylWJLflvw9smcdfK6f6RNaok1A7GJXDCwMa6nnfTym_DqjGvGvsTX5s0/s3428/Hillsboro%20depot%20from%20NE%207.28.22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3007" data-original-width="3428" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZo6Zjo4IY0j286HeyB-3Umzf63-6lbjwfrbjYik4Kn_e386U5FKqbbN6uVx6-7BmfpCZjCgFzo4cEH41_C0Rkl7U_gaeN3NZ4wQkrnFqAnAMwGgsMWV0X-xD7ZSa8SlIDibvylWJLflvw9smcdfK6f6RNaok1A7GJXDCwMa6nnfTym_DqjGvGvsTX5s0/w400-h351/Hillsboro%20depot%20from%20NE%207.28.22.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Lytle lost his PNRC to the Southern Pacific Railroad soon after it was finished. The Port of Tillamook took over increasingly more of the line after 1983, until a flood damaged so much of it in 2007 that it was shut down permanently.(<a href="https://www.potb.org/port-of-tillamook-bay-railroad" target="_blank">"Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad"</a>). It's now destined to become the <a href="https://salmonberrytrail.org/" target="_blank">Salmonberry Trail</a>, for the benefit of hikers and bicyclists. Just for the fun of it, I hiked all accessible existing sections in 2022. I also visited the original Hillsboro station after finding out it still stood in the same location. The photo to the right is of its northeast corner, taken from SE Cedar Street looking towards S 1st Avenue, the same perspective as the postcard above.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBss0uVnNr_ZtuN8udfcN8nbxWBQEuIehdItrGy0dcJWwU5uiLZOd0IVQM8fcJs6mkyFy3xDUpbmjStNKOHzhMk-XDVZ0xl3x_VaXNuImY2xIK2KffHALZd4zftBfk00UeANZHTr5bbW0cg4yvxNzWOQQnJuEGL0cgGyThe85WNmGBZ16x-m6HqSdsK4BU/s1016/Pages%20from%20Bagleys%20of%20Bayocean%202019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1016" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBss0uVnNr_ZtuN8udfcN8nbxWBQEuIehdItrGy0dcJWwU5uiLZOd0IVQM8fcJs6mkyFy3xDUpbmjStNKOHzhMk-XDVZ0xl3x_VaXNuImY2xIK2KffHALZd4zftBfk00UeANZHTr5bbW0cg4yvxNzWOQQnJuEGL0cgGyThe85WNmGBZ16x-m6HqSdsK4BU/w320-h157/Pages%20from%20Bagleys%20of%20Bayocean%202019.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Card provided by granddaughter Sue Bagley Barr.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Because of this key transportation link, many of the people involved with the Bayocean during the half century it existed were from Hillsboro. The most prominent of them was <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2019/11/the-children-of-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Judge George Bagley</a>. In addition to serving as Tillamook's Circuit Court Judge, he owned cabins on the spit. So did others from Hillsboro, like the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2016/10/four-currin-cabins.html" target="_blank">Currins</a>. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In addition those cited here, see <i>Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon </i>for additional sources and information. If you are unfamiliar with the Bayocean story, please read <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/the-bayocean-story-in-brief.html" target="_blank">The Bayocean Story in Brief.</a> Look at the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" target="_blank">Index</a> to find more articles that might be of interest.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com3Tillamook, OR 97141, USA45.4562158 -123.844013717.145981963821157 -159.0002637 73.766449636178848 -88.6877637tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-73061006802962344812023-06-09T09:45:00.002-07:002023-06-09T10:00:37.801-07:00The Hough House Suffers a Slow Demise<div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As noted previously, <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/10/the-last-house.html">The Last House</a> on Bayocean fell to the sea in 1960. Another home within the Bayocean Park subdivision succumbed later, but it was on <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/cape-meares-and-bayocean.html">Cape Meares</a>, so not tallied among the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2023/05/bayocean-losses-tallied.html">59 lost</a>. It was located on the southeast corner of 2nd Street and 1st Avenue (now Bayocean Road) as shown on the original <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gtx2WtRX2DsQ1KXM_Tz2SFg1jP-z_biC/view?usp=sharing">Bayocean Park plat map</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_dlK873oJKH1XaFug5kwwkvfjWBkD1YJFPBH3OItwzWSK0ZAeXBA4J1ROuLFho0X12L-nc579CbhbvUHyTT1u7ptrvZ59Ay9Y1HiWy_J7Gb3LxAcM_RPbdAaV6X6todRsu1ClpbUb-EFEA3AsN2rBh4swC54NFEsDey5DrJNBFwTgtT0TNXpZ8-gig/s1325/Culp%20115,%20Lorraine%20Eckhardt,%20Hough%20house%20%20ruins.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1325" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_dlK873oJKH1XaFug5kwwkvfjWBkD1YJFPBH3OItwzWSK0ZAeXBA4J1ROuLFho0X12L-nc579CbhbvUHyTT1u7ptrvZ59Ay9Y1HiWy_J7Gb3LxAcM_RPbdAaV6X6todRsu1ClpbUb-EFEA3AsN2rBh4swC54NFEsDey5DrJNBFwTgtT0TNXpZ8-gig/w320-h219/Culp%20115,%20Lorraine%20Eckhardt,%20Hough%20house%20%20ruins.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Culp 115 image (undated), Lorraine Eckhardt.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Erosion hit the mainland as hard as the spit, but owners simply moved their houses back from the advancing sea, in some cases, multiple times. Unfortunately, this house was too big to move. Instead, its empty, deteriorating shell provided tourists something to explore and photograph. <span style="font-family: inherit;">On November 20, 1958, the T<i>illamook Headlight-Herald</i> said it sat “deep in debris and rocks as the beach moves farther inland.” </span>Since no specific day it was taken by the sea was ever noted, it must have slowly given way over many years. </span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="640" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQI0p60SKXiNUplirrXkHM4kvkTcgSA15aBy62hb1j6JPyxc9ptmtOFe56gLSc9r904BeAuzjXtzAen9TJdqAcquKEA-RYdZApVFGD1O3KtAZyObZZtJJnBM9PDxNWWRWzV0gh8ebPWmYKwn4fJBBbvo9myFrechO5IVXSHoEM5c_HrWg2wEvsU3jTPQ/w320-h222/Hough%20residence,%20Bay%20Ocean,%20c.%201943.jpg" width="320" /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After <i>Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon </i>was published, I heard from David Hough, son of Lawrence (Evert) and Edith Hough, the last owners of this house. The 1943 photo he sent is the first I'd seen of it shown in a livable condition. It has the same perspective as the Culp image above, providing a before and after comparison. David also described it: "The Bay Ocean house was a bit primitive. We had
running water, probably from the Cape Meares system, and electrical power, but
limited plumbing. Heat was from a single woodstove. The house sat just above
the water level of the nearby swamp, and there was an outhouse perched at the
end of a sploshing board walk." </span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I hope the publication of <i>Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon</i> prompts others to share their personal Bayocean stories and photographs. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Find more article in the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" target="_blank">Index tab</a>. </span></p>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-68639691187796793332023-05-26T14:28:00.003-07:002023-05-26T14:51:53.369-07:00Bayocean Losses Tallied<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGrYz-3Cyb8ZVJT6_j3VjCQlPu61NvFMfp-l5unxTaeB9xpjeHbxaGayeMB2RJnNHgP11B-k86ldB5NE-oQokydFohF41eCY9XHN4NLsoIE_-wzFTOPVoXZYj-rQAEsVVLMRMWLWdeoIAdBRX0exYksARZCZZoXM6Cz945ITniVAoRu22srvhHAbBDDw/s3486/Pages%20from%20Oregonian%201975-4.6%20NW%20p6,7,12%20Bayocean-A%20Washed%20Out%20Dream.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3486" data-original-width="2453" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGrYz-3Cyb8ZVJT6_j3VjCQlPu61NvFMfp-l5unxTaeB9xpjeHbxaGayeMB2RJnNHgP11B-k86ldB5NE-oQokydFohF41eCY9XHN4NLsoIE_-wzFTOPVoXZYj-rQAEsVVLMRMWLWdeoIAdBRX0exYksARZCZZoXM6Cz945ITniVAoRu22srvhHAbBDDw/w283-h400/Pages%20from%20Oregonian%201975-4.6%20NW%20p6,7,12%20Bayocean-A%20Washed%20Out%20Dream.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">At one time or another, the resort town of Bayocean included everything listed below, as chronicled in <a href="https://a.co/d/3I1pBwr">Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon</a>. Absolutely nothing remains. </span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2022/10/bayocean-homes-and-their-fate.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">59 Residences</a><b> </b>(not all stood at the same time; the number peaked at 36 in 1939):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">30 slid to the sea, undercut by erosion </span></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> 8 were deconstructed </span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <span> </span>6 were moved off the spit before it became an island in 1952<br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> 4 burned down for lack of a fire department</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span> 9 were burned, and buried </span><span>to enable construction </span><span>of the break</span><span><span>water that </span></span><span>r</span>econnected the island to Cape Meares in 1956</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> 2 had unknown fates </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><b>Rock crusher: </b>used to manufacture 3.5 miles of concrete streets</span></span></span><span> and sidewalks </span>along High Terrace and Twelfth Avenues <b>T</b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">wo schoolhouses</span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Machine shop </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Warehouses:</b> at least two; many untallied outbuildings </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Kaaran Ann Kottages: </b>a duplex</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2023/04/post-offices-and-postmasters.html" target="_blank">Cottage Park</a>: </b>42 rental cottages (the number and style varied) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2019/02/1949-ackroyd-aerial-depicts-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Annex</a>: </b>38 guest rooms and a restaurant</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><b>Amusement Pavilion</b>: a three-sided structure including a bowling alley, billiard room, ice cream </span>parlor, game room, and curio shop</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Tennis courts</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2023/04/post-offices-and-postmasters.html" target="_blank">Bayside Inn</a>: </b>24 guest rooms and a restaurant </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/05/competition-for-bayoceans-natatorium.html" target="_blank"><b>Natatorium</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><b>Three dance halls: </b>at different times,<b> </b>the last put up by <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2016/01/reedies-run-bayocean-in-1921.html" target="_blank">Reed College</a> s</span>tudents when they ran the resort in 1921</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2016/07/william-george-owned-mitchells-general.html" target="_blank">The Mitchell</a>: </b>a mercantile with at least three apartments upstairs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/05/walking-past-pier.html" target="_blank"><b>Pier</b></a><b>: </b><span>one quarter mile long, with a </span>harbor for ocean-going ships</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/bayocean-park-plumbing.html" target="_blank">Water lines</a>: </b>run from Coleman Creek on Cape Meares</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><b><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/bayocean-park-plumbing.html" target="_blank">Sewer lines</a>:</b> run along High Terrace and Twelfth</span> Avenues </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><b>6-7 million cubic yards of sand: </b>which would have filled a cube </span></span></span><span style="text-align: center;">545’ to</span><span><span style="text-align: center;"> 573’ on each side,</span><span><span><span><b> </b>roughly<b> </b></span></span></span><span><span style="text-align: center;">two Portland city blocks and the street between</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="text-align: center;">To find other articles of interest, see the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" target="_blank">Index</a> or scroll through them on the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" target="_blank">Home</a> page. </span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.9194495-10.734662377307032 165.76805050000002 90 -53.6069495tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-21843315736071099422023-04-19T09:20:00.008-07:002023-04-25T07:20:14.899-07:00Post Offices and Postmasters<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span>In <a href="https://a.co/d/3I1pBwr" target="_blank"><i>Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon</i></a>, I discuss changes in the name, location, and postmaster of all of the post offices on </span></span></span>Tillamook Spit and Cape Meares, from the first in 1891 to the last in 1954. Below, I summarize that progression and list every postmaster who served during the sixty-three year span. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span>The first post office on Tillamook Spit was dubbed </span></span></span><i>Barnegat</i> by Absalom Hallock, who set up shop in his <span><span>cabin just north of Jackson Gap. </span></span><span><span>When he died a year later, Webley and Mary Hauxhurst's daughter Lizzie (wife of Bert) and then daughter-in-law Carrie (wife of Joseph) ran the Barnegat Post Office out of their homes on Biggs (now Pitcher) Point. Cape Meares Lighthouse keepers then served as postmasters until the construction of Bayocean Park began. For more on this era, see <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/04/barnaget-before-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Barnegat Before Bayocean</a>. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu3nG-SrR_0WUZJzsAY89-7ze5Ljf2noBLVpf7e8vtk5btzTTaqlaC1r1wexfUB9DmP187z67mdhtEsUM7Zw46r-2W5UQq2fnP2B69gwdgW1hEloTiF0VsIJek-qxrVxUk9lGyCPgPk8yVeXGa23xVBS6057DcQ-rN1iU6UXIvftHCBCZVTiw75hJtdQ/s1258/2--Administration%20Building%20(Bayocean)%20&%20Post%20Office.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1258" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu3nG-SrR_0WUZJzsAY89-7ze5Ljf2noBLVpf7e8vtk5btzTTaqlaC1r1wexfUB9DmP187z67mdhtEsUM7Zw46r-2W5UQq2fnP2B69gwdgW1hEloTiF0VsIJek-qxrVxUk9lGyCPgPk8yVeXGa23xVBS6057DcQ-rN1iU6UXIvftHCBCZVTiw75hJtdQ/s320/2--Administration%20Building%20(Bayocean)%20&%20Post%20Office.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary Jones (wife of construction superintendent George Jones) stamped <i>Barnegat, </i>and<i> Bayocean </i>after the name was changed,<i> </i>on envelopes inside a tent. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The next superintendent, Jim O'Donnell, took on the role himself, but continued working out of a tent until workers finished the administration building - later known as the Bayside Inn - and amusement pavillion, where it was also housed from time to time. (The photo to the left and those below are from the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum.) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlMyj1HQ5HKn0H2jnTWI1NRJ1NuspkadcYsVHVZoL2iQ0g8xfb1CGZw3nKNNrnrEAk5MIz3m9aijYQBbNrpe3ZR2Mh9Z2fT163PCO5D6cSHBz5AfiBj0_T9feRdE8ljwtHbW1d34l4tIhdu34Z0MucVetGwdxDkca0tftEZpBxowOyXVznzchfx2L-ug/s2415/BOP53%20-%20Car%20in%20front%20of%20Mitchell's%20Store%20-%20July%2017,%201926_%2310956j.tif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2415" data-original-width="1728" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlMyj1HQ5HKn0H2jnTWI1NRJ1NuspkadcYsVHVZoL2iQ0g8xfb1CGZw3nKNNrnrEAk5MIz3m9aijYQBbNrpe3ZR2Mh9Z2fT163PCO5D6cSHBz5AfiBj0_T9feRdE8ljwtHbW1d34l4tIhdu34Z0MucVetGwdxDkca0tftEZpBxowOyXVznzchfx2L-ug/s320/BOP53%20-%20Car%20in%20front%20of%20Mitchell's%20Store%20-%20July%2017,%201926_%2310956j.tif" width="229" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span>F</span>or most of its forty-one years the Bayocean Post Office was loc</span></span>ated in</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2016/07/william-george-owned-mitchells-general.html" target="_blank">The Mitchell</a>, and Ida Mitchell served as postmaster, although her husband Francis performed the duties most of </span><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the <span>time.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1492" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAGUG8HtEmcE1tQNg9D_UgwhVQCvik05UqlmO3bfy5VRzXQUifqcwuEdgm9vTSUOnBP9nAvCBctFOP95qJ61lBnH_WBR6Eq04R5tBpLoAJlF1PEFYbxmZ-1UgnXeBHxXyqmWKVRL4fRSXhMqbcQLZ3WV_uuVLpE8nAT3_qaRiLKL4vfKtRpRPnFAGtA/w320-h189/271--Post%20Office%20and%20Grocery%20at%20Bayocean,%20Oregon.jpg" width="320" /></span></div>When Gladys Hoover took over as postmaster, she moved the post office into one of the Cottage Park bungalows she and her husband Russell owned.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqvgNy6B5QdICUnUCTi70c4E4ESTZJcAipoWHGpWos04xsQ9423qe0-tqg0cFcm5NcWY7GbZVhLOuAkUVp0i_aQ0S59ApJQIwZDp1II6b5QotUeLSF3lpyjdiI41QJlgtwrGpYSb-8qhyVnIXJx42fiH-k5CnMOY4hn2I0va_uVMWBbN1CIo_BHr5CQ/s1365/Short%20lived%20post%20office%20at%20Cape%20Meares%20community%20after%201952%20washout%20located%20@%204th%20St.%20&%20Bayocean%20Road.%20%20Mrs.%20Perry%20Reeder%20Sr.%20(Evelyn)%20postmaster..jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="1174" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqvgNy6B5QdICUnUCTi70c4E4ESTZJcAipoWHGpWos04xsQ9423qe0-tqg0cFcm5NcWY7GbZVhLOuAkUVp0i_aQ0S59ApJQIwZDp1II6b5QotUeLSF3lpyjdiI41QJlgtwrGpYSb-8qhyVnIXJx42fiH-k5CnMOY4hn2I0va_uVMWBbN1CIo_BHr5CQ/w172-h200/Short%20lived%20post%20office%20at%20Cape%20Meares%20community%20after%201952%20washout%20located%20@%204th%20St.%20&%20Bayocean%20Road.%20%20Mrs.%20Perry%20Reeder%20Sr.%20(Evelyn)%20postmaster..jpg" width="172" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div>At the end of October 1951, the Bayocean Post Office was moved to a new building at</span> the southwest corner of 4th Street and Bayocean Road on the mainland (Cape Meares) section of the Bayocean Park subdivision. By then, erosion of the sand gaps on the spit let waves wash out the road so often that delivery into town was unpredictable. The name was changed to reflect the new location a year and a half later. Ten months after that, the Cape Meares Post Office was shut down and mail delivered by automobile thereafter. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span>The list of postmaster assignments below is from the microfilmed Record of Appointments of Postmasters, 1832-1971, at the National Archives and Records Administration. I viewed them at the Seattle branch </span></span>originally<span><span>, but a digitized version at <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1932/" target="_blank"> Ancestry.com</a> now makes them more accessible. </span></span><span><span>I </span></span><span>corrected misspellings caused by transcribers working with poor </span><span>handwriting and/or deteriorating media. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Barnegat Postmasters</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span>Absalom B Hallock 28
Apr 1891</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span>Lizzie Biggs 26
Mar 1898</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span>Carrie A Hauxhurst 20 Jun 1898</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span>Hermann Grossheim 18 Oct 1900 </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span>George Hunt 3
Feb 1902</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span>George H Higgins 17
Aug 1901</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span>Mary Jones 14
Sep 1907</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bayocean Postmasters</span></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Mary Jones 24 Feb 1909</li><li>M J O'Donnell 3 Jul 1909</li><li>Walter L Johnson 14
Nov 1913</li><li>David C Baker 7 Oct 1915</li><li>Geo J Burckard 9 Dec 1915</li><li>Francis D Mitchell 26
Sep 1918</li><li>Arthur L Springer 5
Feb 1923</li><li>Mrs Cosia N Oakes 3
Sep 1924</li><li>Miss Ida J Mitchell 8
Sep 1926</li><li>Stockwell H Cornelius 12
Oct 1926</li><li>Mrs Betty H Watkins 18
Apr 1928</li><li>Mrs Ida J Mitchell 23
Apr 1930</li><li>Mrs Gladys L Hoover 1
Aug 1946</li><li>Mrs Evelyn H Reeder 31
Jan 1950</li></ul></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Cape Meares Postmaster</b></span></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mrs Evelyn H Reeder 31 Mar 1953 - 31 Jan 1954</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">To find other articles of interest, see the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" target="_blank">Index </a>tab.</span></div>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook, OR 97141, USA45.4562158 -123.844013717.145981963821157 -159.0002637 73.766449636178848 -88.6877637tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-10304671967770489822023-04-14T08:04:00.001-07:002023-04-14T08:04:25.688-07:00Bayocean The Playground of the Pacific Northwest<div class="separator"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQU2QR_EfNnhQLgVppuY3zKPy7ryJLkXKPRjrLferp4B3hz-RKTp8iPHvhCHO8fPYU5bor4-DXFNxQo4UdIxNN3lXe1VIrMDbTD76rvosns-N2a76YLEizx3MmVGYwX2CnCVYgQgdbgaT4tyn0iGE3S-WMyl7LG5ACVWcI7ZzbuTZaEB43WmQwAPe28A/s2692/Pages%20from%201913%20Playground%20of%20the%20Pacific%20NW.%20SP.%20(OSL),%20no%20pricing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2692" data-original-width="2373" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQU2QR_EfNnhQLgVppuY3zKPy7ryJLkXKPRjrLferp4B3hz-RKTp8iPHvhCHO8fPYU5bor4-DXFNxQo4UdIxNN3lXe1VIrMDbTD76rvosns-N2a76YLEizx3MmVGYwX2CnCVYgQgdbgaT4tyn0iGE3S-WMyl7LG5ACVWcI7ZzbuTZaEB43WmQwAPe28A/w565-h640/Pages%20from%201913%20Playground%20of%20the%20Pacific%20NW.%20SP.%20(OSL),%20no%20pricing.jpg" width="565" /></a></div>The same year (1913) that Southern Pacific Railroad produced its first "<a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2016/04/southern-pacific-railroad-brochures.html" target="_blank">Sea Sh</a><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2016/04/southern-pacific-railroad-brochures.html" target="_blank">ore Tillamook County</a>" brochure, it collaborated with the T. B. Potter Realty Company to produce "Bayocean The Playground of the Pacific Northwest." Its seven pages feature drawings and photos of Bayocean Park and a Pacific Railroad & Navigation Co. map showing how to get there. The entire brochure can be <a href="https://digital.osl.state.or.us/islandora/object/osl:84376" target="_blank">downloaded from the State Library of Oregon online</a>. I include page 6 here because it shows seven of the fifty-nine houses eventually destroyed that I discussed recently in <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2022/10/bayocean-homes-and-their-fate.html" target="_blank">Bayocean Homes and Their Fate</a> and cover extensively in <a href="https://a.co/d/3I1pBwr" target="_blank">Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon. </a></span></div></div>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-80887813322123148222023-03-18T09:20:00.009-07:002023-05-25T06:23:24.836-07:00Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon Published<p></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWd0NZfSWEylmHEzvMYJPBXeA0iBvqm3Nuf1GO4f0KZ-W2NT5cR1WrToYl5eBtEBxn60pnJz6uADDz3vdFm1Lnzr0wxWuzKbTBLbrK42pkka-EaY7Lh_L2RuUpyG6fzhiMkEsKWfl0RIhLA6Ck9V4Hzzgc062_pc4PFS6iVbOWsBF0G2NGIQT8U0Eqg/s2775/BAO%20Front%20Cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1840" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWd0NZfSWEylmHEzvMYJPBXeA0iBvqm3Nuf1GO4f0KZ-W2NT5cR1WrToYl5eBtEBxn60pnJz6uADDz3vdFm1Lnzr0wxWuzKbTBLbrK42pkka-EaY7Lh_L2RuUpyG6fzhiMkEsKWfl0RIhLA6Ck9V4Hzzgc062_pc4PFS6iVbOWsBF0G2NGIQT8U0Eqg/w212-h320/BAO%20Front%20Cover.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm pleased to announce the publication of <i><a href="https://a.co/d/3I1pBwr">Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon</a> (BAO). </i>Its 290 pages of text and 57 photos, maps, and charts chronicle the story of the only resort town in the world completely destroyed by the sea due to human error. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I encourage folks to purchase it from one of the local vendors listed on the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/book-availability.html" target="_blank">Book Availability</a> page. </span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>Folks unfamiliar with the Bayocean story may want to start by reading my <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/the-bayocean-story-in-brief.html" target="_blank">Bayocean Story in Brief</a>. As for <i>BAO</i>, Neal Lemery wrote an extensive <a href="https://www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/book-review-bayocean-atlantis-of-oregon/" target="_blank">book review </a>in the <i>Tillamook County Pioneer, </i>and </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW267JDY?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_FCYZWKTHWF8YDQADJQS3" target="_blank">Amazon</a> includes its introduction, table of contents, and index in its Look Inside preview. You're likely to find familiar names in <i>BAO's </i>index because the Bayocean story reaches far beyond Tillamook County. People from Portland, Spokane, and other cities across the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco, Half Moon Bay, and other cities in the Bay Area, and Kansas City, Missouri were involved throughout its half century of existence. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><br />I apologize to Bayocean enthusiasts who've waited three and a half years since <a href="https://d.docs.live.net/44a07f2ea44ffeb4/BAO/Marketing/Like%20Amazon,%20Ingram%20has%20a%20global%20reach,%20and%20it%20distributes%20to%20libraries%20as%20well.">I first announced having started drafting a book</a>, b</span>ut I kept discovering new details and interconnections that needed to be worked out as I parsed out 30 GB of data stored on my computer. And I was forced to seek new sources to help clarify discrepancies and debunk myths. Fitting everything into a reasonably sized, chronological narrative was also time-consuming. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I regret the passing of several <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html">Bayocean alumni</a> before they could read <i>BAO</i> and see my acknowledgement of their contributions. As I say in its introduction, Bayocean's history would be more interesting than most small towns even if it still existed; that it doesn't is why telling it matters, now more than ever, while some of those who experienced its destruction are still alive. </span></div>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook, OR 97141, USA45.4562158 -123.844013720.851867175620882 -159.0002637 70.060564424379123 -88.6877637tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-81040091689219792772022-11-21T09:15:00.006-08:002023-09-14T13:09:32.176-07:00Bayocean Homes and Their Fate<div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDnm7pPbeZ6vRK5VxiteuUJ9hm54hlvFuOUw41co2disIiH6f5ft5qu64wTiRLwqt3hVzEIa56Pbw8uhpNdutIXEXHPr5oUZyzqJYu1swU4DjtjiLpEMsRMKmSKaEieNQaGuyJM0LOlEwvMqYK3XGvl25EV644VdDkKVlF3kJy6NZdGz3iTO1BZW4pw/s601/Roberts,%202-6-1940,%20POR-57,%20Historic%20Photos,%201903-1953,%20Box%201B,%20Bayocean%201924-1956.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="601" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDnm7pPbeZ6vRK5VxiteuUJ9hm54hlvFuOUw41co2disIiH6f5ft5qu64wTiRLwqt3hVzEIa56Pbw8uhpNdutIXEXHPr5oUZyzqJYu1swU4DjtjiLpEMsRMKmSKaEieNQaGuyJM0LOlEwvMqYK3XGvl25EV644VdDkKVlF3kJy6NZdGz3iTO1BZW4pw/w400-h290/Roberts,%202-6-1940,%20POR-57,%20Historic%20Photos,%201903-1953,%20Box%201B,%20Bayocean%201924-1956.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The house last owned by <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2016/06/sandbags-couldnt-save-eh-roberts-house.html" target="_blank">Harry Roberts</a>, photographed by the <br />Corps of Engineers in February 1940, not long before it fell. </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span>After first hearing about Bayocean eight years ago, I set out to locate the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/three-other-houses-moved-from-bayocean.html" target="_blank">schoolhouse and six cabins</a> (counting the Pagodas as two) moved to the mainland <span><span>before the south end of the spit was blown out by a storm surge in <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html" target="_blank">November 1952</a>, a disaster from which the resort town never recovered. I had just located the last of them when </span><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/grant-mcomie-captures-bayocean-story.html" target="_blank">Grant McComie</a><span> called in</span></span><span> </span><span>June 2015 to ask for assistance regarding a program on Bayocean. </span><span>I then thought it would be interesting to know where the buildings were located on the spit. That led to an obsession with finding every residence ever built on Bayocean, and to learning as much as I could about the homeowners who lost them. It took me an</span>other seven and a half years to achieve that goal. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>If Bayocean Park had been platted in the 1970s, it would have been much easier to locate buildings because property owners would have been required to purchased permits and get an inspector's approval before occupying their homes, resulting in a detailed chronological record readily accessible at the Tillamook County Courthouse. But while the resort town of Bayocean existed, none of that was the case. Homebuilding was a kind of free-for-all. So, I was </span>forced to look for names in newspaper articles, then search deed indexes at the county clerk's office, track ownership back and <span>forth, and go back to look for the other names in newspapers.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span>Most large metropolitan newspapers like the <i>Oregonian</i> were digitized, so I was able to search them online, but that was true of very few </span></span>Tillamook County newspapers. So, <span><span>I read every original edition or microfilmed copy looking for any mention of Bayocean. Information I was excited to find one day often conflicted with information found elsewhere later. Personal memoirs, government reports, and other archival records helped me parse it all out and fill in gaps.</span> I ran into many dead ends along the way, but most of the remaining</span><span> pieces of my self-induced Bayocean puzzle fell into place when </span></span><span>Denise Vandercouvering, Tillamook County Assessor worked out a way for me to look through historical </span><span>assessment rolls stored in the courthouse basement after I learned they were organized chronologically by subdivision - just what I needed. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In <i>Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon</i>, hopefully published in the next couple of months, I will tell the story of homeowners I was able to find, so readers can get a sense of what they experienced. And I mention at least the first and last owners of each of the fifty-nine houses built and lost on the spit. Some were magnificent, some were shacks or converted garages, but they were all considered home by someone. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span>My tally does not include houses on the</span></span></span><span> mainland - one of which was destroyed, others moved, some more than once - because my book is about the spit, which I consider everything north of </span>South Gap (</span><span>Shell Street and 2nd Avenue) b</span><span>ecause it was the southern limit of the November 1952 blowout. </span><span>I counted </span><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/05/pagoda-houses.html" target="_blank">the Pagodas</a><span> as two houses because one was built later than the other on the spit, lived in by different individuals, and referred to as such by neighbors. </span><span>Others might choose criteria that result in a different tally. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span>To help myself and readers keep track of the fifty-nine residences, I built a spreadsheet <span>listing each one, their </span></span></span><span>demise, </span><span><span>lot numbers, and the last names of each owner. Unfortunately, it was too large to include as an appendix in my book, but </span>you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XgwEHPFxTscfqwZy-dh1jibANHHXBMA7/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">view and/or download it here</a>.<span> Locating each home will require you to view and/or download the </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gtx2WtRX2DsQ1KXM_Tz2SFg1jP-z_biC/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Bayocean Park plat map</a>, which I could not fit on two pages pages of my book and provide sufficient detail. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">For more stories about Bayocean and the challenges of researching it, check out the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Index page</a><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. To reach a comprehensive narrative, read </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://a.co/d/3I1pBwr" target="_blank">Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon</a>. </span></span></div>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com5Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449520.93463441844095 -159.07569949999998 70.097325981559052 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-3374140240190164682022-02-26T06:56:00.006-08:002023-04-14T08:06:39.647-07:00The Tillamook Indians and Bayocean<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Tillamook (Kilamox) Indians lived on the sandspit that would become Bayocean Park for centuries before white men arrived. </span><span>European fur-trading ships began plying the shores of Oregon at the end of the 17th century, but the first recorded interaction was when </span>Captain Robert Gray sailed the <span><i>Lady Washington </i>into Tillamook Bay and anchored in Crab Harbor on </span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoa5c0N_4O3ALIwkBXrgG6SCNWRILTRca4zuBjvoZVggXv74wO281gVusPxv2Fi-kUA_XhO-e12gefIHZWroKSe86jOcRgzh35ViurL9dK0DrSoMiNjDcYQs5FZHiyYUWxsfq_h_iQoCtIWWPZFIgUsgV3CeajEowjBeVy4WAlh3raygj7CN66FofZ1A=s2000" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1183" data-original-width="2000" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoa5c0N_4O3ALIwkBXrgG6SCNWRILTRca4zuBjvoZVggXv74wO281gVusPxv2Fi-kUA_XhO-e12gefIHZWroKSe86jOcRgzh35ViurL9dK0DrSoMiNjDcYQs5FZHiyYUWxsfq_h_iQoCtIWWPZFIgUsgV3CeajEowjBeVy4WAlh3raygj7CN66FofZ1A=w400-h237" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Lucia Wiley’s 1943 WPA painting of Captain Gray's <br />interaction with Tillamooks, from Wikimedia Commons. <br /></td></tr></tbody></table>August 14, 1788. Third mate Robert Haswell’s log (reprinted in the <a href="https://garibaldimuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capt-Robert-Grays-First-Visit-to-Oregon-Eliot-Packag1.pdf" target="_blank">June 1928 edition of the </a><em><a href="https://garibaldimuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capt-Robert-Grays-First-Visit-to-Oregon-Eliot-Packag1.pdf" target="_blank">Oregon Historical Quarterly</a>) </em>detailed the event.<em> </em><span>After a couple days of peaceful trading at </span><span>a seasonal camp on</span><span> <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/04/kincheloe-point.html" target="_blank">Kincheloe Point</a>, Gray’s black servant </span>Markus Lopeus got into a squabble with a warrior over his cutlass <span>that ended with Lopeus’ death. Haswell, who was wounded in the ensuing skirmish between warriors and sailors, dubbed the unnamed bay </span>“Murderers Harbour” as they sailed away. Given the aid, Chief Kilchis gave white settlers beginning in the 1850s, it is ironic that the first known battle between any Oregon Indian tribe and white men occurred on Tillamook Spit. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">A permanent village at the south of the end of the spit, in the meadow <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/locating-bayocean-school.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">where the Bayocean School that is now the Cape Meares Community Center was later built</a>, probably was the home base of the warriors who battled Captain Gray's men. In his 1948 diary, archived at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum, Bayocean resident Jack Medcalf described longhouse ruins and a large midden there. The location is shown on page 175 of <i>Tillamook Indians of the Oregon Coast</i>, but the landscape in the photo has changed dramatically since then. On page 158, beeswax is reported to have been found there, which would have come from Nehalem Bay Tillamooks who salvaged it from the Spanish Galleon <i>Santo Cristo de Burgos </i>after it wrecked during the winter of 1693–1694 (see “Oregon’s<a href="https://www.ohs.org/research-and-library/oregon-historical-quarterly/back-issues/upload/La-Follette_Oregon-s-Manila-Galleon_OHQ-Summer-2018.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Manila Galleon</a>” by La Follette, Deur, Griffin, and Williams in the Summer 2018 <i>Oregon Historical
Quarterly</i>). Diseases brought by sailors decimated the Tillamooks' population to the extent the village on Tillamook Spit had been abandoned by the time white settlers arrived. When <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/02/rewitness-card-56.html" rel="" target="_blank"> Samuel Snowden surveyed it in 1856,</a> he noted a lone hut at Crab Harbor. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>In 1934, Clara Pearson relayed Tillamook myths to ethnographer Elizabeth Derr Jacobs that were published in <i>Nehalem Tillamook Tales.</i></span><i> </i>One offers an explanation for the first people living in the village on the spit moving there from Flower Plot, a meadow along the southern shore of Tillamook Bay. It was a long, gruesome tale about Wild Woman (Xilgo) roasting children for violating a rule against eating while their parents were away. The villagers took revenge by tricking Wild Woman into returning and then roasting her. No one wished to remain there after that.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span>Clara Pearson also explained how </span>South Wind (Asaiyahal) created Tillamook Spit, but I will use the version Hyas John relayed to Franz Boas because it is shorter. </span>Tim Nidever of Portland State University was kind enough to translate it from Latin before I learned of more recent English versions. The <i>Journal of American Folklore </i>evidently thought the myth was too sexually explicit for the Victorian readers who would read their April-June 1898 edition. At least, that's why I chose not to paraphrase it.<i> </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">While traveling the world, he traveled on and came to Tillamook. When indeed he saw a woman across the river, bathing after the completion of her period, he wished to have intercourse with her. And so, his penis, which, on account of its unbelievable length, he carried wrapped around his shoulders, he deliberately cast into the water in order that it might make contact with the woman. By this action, the tip of his penis entered her vagina. By chance, many a water plant was borne downstream against his penis in its shrinking desire so that it was, at length, severed by the constant friction. The tip, conveyed by the river’s current, was transformed into the long and narrow peninsula which today is called Tillamook. As’ai’yahal hung from his shoulders the rest of his coiled penis.</span></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span>For the scientific explanation of how the sandspit was formed, see <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/02/the-shrinking-of-bayocean-peninsula.html" target="_blank">Prehistoric Geomorphology of Bayocean Peninsula</a>. For m</span></span><span>ore posts on Tillamook Indians see the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" target="_blank">Index tab</a>. </span></span></div>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com6Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-6360028539521166882021-10-16T09:07:00.004-07:002023-04-14T08:06:59.445-07:00The First House To Go<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span>After figuring out the<a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/10/the-last-house.html" target="_blank"> last house to fall into the sea</a>, I began to wonder which had gone first. The first clue came from </span></span>"Report on Beach Erosion Studies, Tillamook Bay, Oregon, With Reference To Bay Ocean", an<span> Army Corps of Engineers study published on August 26, 1940. It said, "a</span><span> total of 11 houses, 3 during the last winter, have either been wrecked or had to be moved since 1927..." </span><span>The appendix included a photo by an unidentified resident captioned "About 1928 - Looking north from the top of dune midpoint of spit. House in lower left destroyed by a storm the following winter." I cropped the photo to zoom in on the cabin. The perspective of the original suggests it was taken from the north end of the hotel grounds. North of there, the ridgeline was forested. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>Looking at photos digitized by April 2016, I found </span>"Ackley 53" <span>in </span><span>Lorraine Eckhart's collection</span><span> captioned </span><span>"home of Mr. Burns lots 6-7-8 block 61." That was along the shoreline </span><span>1200' north of the</span> <span>Bayocean Natatorium. </span><span>On my next trip to </span><span>Tillamook, I looked through deed records and saw the lots had been purchased by Alberta Burns. Census records showed she was married to Elmer, a Portland machinist. I then searched for him on my computer and found a story in the </span><span>May 1912 issue of the </span><span><i>Surf </i></span><span>(Bayocean Park's newsletter) saying that a Mr. Burns was almost done with his cabin. The problem was that the houses depicted in these two photos were clearly different. Burns' had a dormer but was smaller and had no porch, or chimney, or room on the south side.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On my next trip to the Tillamook County Clerks' office, I looked at neighboring lots in Block 61 and noticed Georgia DeWitt purchasing adjacent sections of lots 10 and 11 and taking out a mortgage in 1913. This was north of Burns by about 100'. I concluded then that the Corps photo was of DeWitt's house and that the Burns' house had fallen first because it was not in the foreground. </span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span>Nothing was written about these three cottages being lost to the sea in newspapers. One reason is they were tiny compared to the summer homes of Portland elite such as <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/07/dolan-house.html" target="_blank">Johan Poulsen</a></span></span><span>. Another</span><span> is suggested by the </span><span>Webbers: "in at least one instance, a distant owner arrived on the spit to spend the summer but he couldn't find his house" </span>(<i>Bayocean: The Oregon Town That Fell Into The Sea, p.78</i>). The parties may have also feared being ridiculed for building so close to the sea if they reported their loss to the </span><span>press.</span><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-82968387264720101262020-01-12T09:39:00.010-08:002023-04-14T08:07:12.133-07:00OPB On Bayocean <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bayocean fans will enjoy two recent productions by Oregon Public Broadcasting journalists. The first, by <a href="https://www.opb.org/author/jule-gilfillan/" target="_blank">Jule Gilfillan</a>, is a 30-minute Oregon Field Guide special titled "Lost City of Bayocean" that </span><span style="font-size: large;">aired on </span><span style="font-size: large;">January 16, 2020. </span><span style="font-size: large;">A 20-minute OPB Radio program written and produced </span><span style="font-size: large;">by <a href="https://www.opb.org/author/kristian-foden-vencil/" target="_blank">Kristian Foden-Vencil</a>, has not yet aired but will be posted on his OPB page when it does. Kristian and Jule collaborated in writing "<a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-bayocean-ghost-town-resort-tillamook-bay/" target="_blank">Bayocean: The Lost Resort Town That Oregon Forgot</a>" which includes additional information, photos, and a link to use for streaming the OFG special. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/page/127822227267704/search/?q=bayocean" target="_blank">OFG Facebook page</a> provides even more videos and photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2015, I gave a behind-the-scenes look at </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/grant-mcomie-captures-bayocean-story.html">Grant McComie</a> filming a program on the spit which readers enjoyed, so I'm doing the same for Jule and Kristian.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> It was fascinating to watch each of these </span><span style="font-size: large;">professionals at work, applying their unique styles, and pulling different narratives and conclusions out of the Bayocean story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My involvement with OPB began in August 2017 when Oregon Experience writer/producer <a href="https://www.opb.org/author/kami-horton/" target="_blank">Kami Horton</a> requested story ideas on the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Facebook history group Oregon History and Memories</span><span style="font-size: large;">. Kami liked what I had to say about Bayocean and put it on her list. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Later that year, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jule Gilfillan learned about Bayocean from </span><span style="font-size: large;">Oregon Field Guide cameraman </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nick Fisher </span><span style="font-size: large;">(since retired) who bikes on the spit and thought it would make a good segment. After doing some research, she agreed with Nick and then checked in with </span><span style="font-size: large;">Oregon Experience. Kami said it would be some time before she could get to Bayocean, so she encouraged Jule to run with it. Having learned about my work in the process, Jule contacted me on September 17, 2018, to ask for my assistance. </span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two days later we met at the Bayocean parking lot. Jule introduced me to OPB videographer/editor <a href="https://www.opb.org/author/todd-sonflieth/" target="_blank">Todd Sonflieth</a> and production assistant Nathan Woosley, a native of Tillamook. </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;">We headed out to the south jetty where Jule </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;">interviewed Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Engineer Heidi Moritz with Jeffrey Henon, </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;">Public Affairs Specialist standing by. It was good to hear Heidi say Bayocean's destruction was caused by the north jetty being built without a south jetty to match because the Corps had denied that well into the 1980s. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: right;">When Heidi and Jeffrey left, the rest of us went to the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Bayocean townsite signpost</a> set up by Perry Reeder and his family. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: right;">I enjoy telling the Bayocean story, but not so much being on camera. Jule and Todd did the best they could to put me at ease. Next, we </span></span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;">visited the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: right;"> <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2017/03/crabapple-park.html" target="_blank">pit Perry's family had dug </a>t<span style="font-family: inherit;">hat exposed a section of sidewalk and street and then</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span> hiked </span><span><span style="text-align: right;">up to the top of the dune ridge to look out at the shoreline where the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/05/competition-for-bayoceans-natatorium.html" target="_blank">Bayocean Natatorium</a> and </span></span><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2019/02/1949-ackroyd-aerial-depicts-bayocean.html" style="text-align: right;" target="_blank">Hotel Bayocean Annex</a> <span><span style="text-align: right;">had stood. That was it for the spit. Jule informed me the</span></span><span style="text-align: right;"> story would be a standard eight-minute segment airing sometime in the spring of 2019. Once home, </span><span style="text-align: right;">I sent Jule answers to some questions she had asked, photos requested, and contact information for Bayocean alumni and others she could interview and ask for photos. Some of those photos were in pretty rough shape. Then volunteer W</span><span style="text-align: right;">es Mahan applied his editing magic. The transformations were amazing. Now I know wh</span><span style="text-align: right;">y photos in OPB programs look so good. </span></span></div><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two months later, Kristian Foden-Vencil (whose British accent I had listened to for 20 years on OPB Radio) emailed to ask me for an interview. He had just recently learned about Bayocean while staying at the <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/the-hicks-house.html" target="_blank">Hicks House</a> (which was then a bed and breakfast, but no longer), and in asking around the office, he learned about Jule's story and got approval to write his own. After an initial meeting in Portland, we hiked around the spit on August 8th. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I noticed a new three-sided historical kiosk </span><span style="font-size: large;">installed along Dike Road which I later learned was the result of a </span><span style="font-size: large;">Tillamook High School student's senior class project. Another kiosk was later installed at the Bayocean townsite. Later, I provided contact information and other resources to Kristian that were different than those I provided Jule. Bayocean is a big story with room for many narratives. </span></div>
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<br /><span>Update: On March 18, 2023, I announced the publication of <i><a href="See https://www.bayocean.net/2023/03/bayocean-atlantis-of-oregon-published.html the publication of my book on March 18, 2023. " target="_blank">Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon</a></i>. A month later, Oregon Field Guide gave their take on what it was like working with me on their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oregonfieldguide/posts/pfbid0ThJ75SHq3QokWCU7wKGNGrwiPUiPCgGQwAGd5MqaMJvicADER5eumD3CLLfmsgHvl" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>, </span></span></div>
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Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com1Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-5353168241704123872019-11-12T07:30:00.002-08:002023-04-14T08:07:26.900-07:00The Children Of Bayocean <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZiCcYzyR86von1QpXFQoLPCucnVpVpgl3-agM19QHFJPiK61guADTiP1yOAxcuUlwrpBojefxGXxo61AtbODpT0daBTVPdMCEnoEDR6D4cSRLsZFAs85WbIPNShLr-cJvOiz6qp8VuMj/s1600/Bagleys+of+Bayocean.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="239" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZiCcYzyR86von1QpXFQoLPCucnVpVpgl3-agM19QHFJPiK61guADTiP1yOAxcuUlwrpBojefxGXxo61AtbODpT0daBTVPdMCEnoEDR6D4cSRLsZFAs85WbIPNShLr-cJvOiz6qp8VuMj/s400/Bagleys+of+Bayocean.jpg" width="237" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">In 2015, Sue Bagley Barr wrote a wonderful story about her early years growing up on Bayocean for her family titled </span><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LHlj5JDznCBGopqOCeUMM2ISz4UlDGmO" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Bagleys of Bayocean</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">and allowed me to post it here for others to enjoy. She has just updated it with new information discovered over the last four years about her grandfather Judge George Bagley, who owned and lost one of the few homes built north of the Hotel Bayocean Annex on High Street. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most of what's been written about Bayocean focuses on the tragedy of a resort town and</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">the homes of its residents being destroyed by the sea. So it is refreshing to see how good life was for the families who lived there during and just after World War II. The views of houses, streets, sidewalks, stores, etc. are different than I've seen elsewhere: they depict people living normal lives in an extraordinary place. And little Sue and Sally are such cuties. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> <span style="font-size: large;"></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Perry Reeder</a> </span><span style="font-size: large;">loves to talk of the sugar sands of Tillamook Bay and snorkeling for hours along the shallow bay waters that were protected from sea winds by a high ridge of sand during languid summer days. He is featured in many of my posts and has obliged my questions on many occasions, as did <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/barbara-bennett.html" target="_blank">Barbara Bennett</a> before her death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Mike Watkins was o</span><span style="font-size: large;">ne of the younger boys. He l</span><span style="font-size: large;">ived in the Oceanview subdivision, just south of Bayocean Park in the community of Cape Meares, but often ventured out onto the spit in order to slide down the long, steep, pure sand slopes on cardboard. He also collected <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/bayocean-park-plumbing.html">wooden water pipe couplers.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The oldest boy was Jesse Vance Mason, who went by his middle name. His </span><span style="font-size: large;">step-father Walter </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Shorty) </span><span style="font-size: large;">Locke managed Bungalow City and they lived just <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2017/03/crabapple-park.html">across the street</a> in a house they built. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Vance often led the younger boys in explorations of</span><span style="font-size: large;"> ruins and into the wilder parts of Bayocean. When he saw blimps coming Vance would run to the highest ridge and yell up at the pilots asking them to drop</span><span style="font-size: large;"> candy bars (the military wasn't rationed like civilians), which they often did, along with notes asking older girls to meet them at a dance on the weekend. When a blimp once crashed into Tillamook Bay, Vance took advantage of their teacher Mrs. Mitchell (not Ida) having let them out of school early to scavenge chunks of rubber, maps, a radio, and some flares. Unfortunately, he had to give it all back to FBI agents when they came calling. Vance's </span><span style="font-size: large;">half-sister, Phyllis (Locke) Anderson, l</span><span style="font-size: large;">oved the bay so much that her mother had to tie her down when Vance wasn't around in order to keep her from scampering off to it every time she looked away. Phyllis and other girls recall the Bennett and Reeder boys finding some sort of odd satisfaction from tossing frogs at them. I can't imagine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On April 8, 2015, </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">I was </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">looking for a cadastral survey monument (see </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/02/rewitness-card-56.html" style="font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rewitness Card #56</span></a><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"> ) </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">at the north end of Bayocean when </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">I noticed red-striped plastic ribbons hanging from tree limbs. </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Following the flags from the ocean side to the bay side, I could not figure out their purpose. Cape Meares resident </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Robert (Ollie) Ollikainen later suggested they play a role in Air Force survival training held on the spit periodically. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>On this Sunday through Thursday, Sept. 18th, the US Air Force was conducting coastal survival training exercises. Saw four young soldiers building shelters out of driftwood, putting up rescue flags, and otherwise going through assigned tasks. On bay side of the spit, I saw several trucks, a bus, many tents, and equipment for the exercise noted above. The soldiers appeared to be doing no damage to the beach area and, from what I later learned, completely clean up the area when they're through.</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I called <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/paul-levesque.html" target="_blank">Paul Levesque</a>, Chief of Staff for the Tillamook County Board of Commissioners, about this he said the Air Force notifies him when the training is scheduled, but it's not made public to avoid interference by observers because these are flight crews learning to hide behind enemy lines if their planes go down. This made me wonder if eyes were observing me while I was bushwhacking across the spit back in April. Perhaps I had inadvertently become part of their training. If so, they did well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For years I wondered about the posts visible during low tide running parallel to Dike Road and wider posts just barely visible above the mudflats crossing the small inlet just northeast of the gate at the south end of the hills. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">I found no evidence of them in aerial photos and maps from individual and archival sources or Army Corps of Engineers records at the National Archives. I thought the posts might have been installed after the breakwater was built in 1956 because they were far out into the bay before then, though not to the end of the original pier. <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Perry Reeder</a> said they were there when he was a kid. He thought they were what's left of bulkheads used to protect the bay side of the spit during storms. A recently discovered aerial photograph, taken by Hugh Ackroyd in 1949, confirms Perry's recollections. The view is from the southwest, so 12th Avenue, leading down to the pier is out of sight to the right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Comparing Ackroyd's 1949 aerial to a profile view from the north not long after the Bayocean was finished - 100' elevation - in 1912 gives you a sense of the great volume of sand lost to erosion during the intervening 37 years. The concrete walls and basement of the first floor of the Annex were all that remained after the upper stories were deconstructed, by 1938.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The cottages shown at the top were all built by Johan Poulsen, Portland lumber baron, in 1912 for use by himself and his daughters' families. </span><span>They were rented out to the Coast Guard to house a </span><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2016/02/the-war-dog-beach-patrol-of-bayocean.html" target="_blank">war dog beach patrol</a><span> unit during World War II. </span><span>The most southerly of the houses, known later as the </span><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/the-hicks-house.html" target="_blank">Hicks House</a><span>, was moved to the mainland in 1952, just before Bayocean became an island. The house closest to the edge was sold to </span><a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/07/dolan-house.html" target="_blank">A.T. Dolan</a>. <span> It b</span><span>urned to the ground shortly after Ackroyd shot his aerial. The</span><span> house closest to the bay, also last owned by the Hicks,</span><span> </span><span>fell to the shore in 1954. The <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/10/the-last-house.html">last house to fall</a> (Notdurft's; hidden behind the trees to the right) succumbed in 1960. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">See the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Index page</a><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> to find more stories like this.</span></span></span><br />
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Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-49850510864591634002017-10-20T15:55:00.002-07:002023-04-14T08:10:36.706-07:00Steinhilber House Slid Off Cape Meares Not Bayocean <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDUmT1OgIJHQco6nvTVJ6KboUenudM6hxX13sumZyXl6d5bIqD0LmQisv_bbS_mqTI7LW4RY0jmSv4CBqNVBrrbdXem2G7ZClrHh82KnaqznzfNNp4Z-yRuyLGkKdIdy_q1w0dy2yICsc/s1600/THH+1977-11.16+s1p6+just+Steinhilber+house+photo+and+caption.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1517" data-original-width="1600" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDUmT1OgIJHQco6nvTVJ6KboUenudM6hxX13sumZyXl6d5bIqD0LmQisv_bbS_mqTI7LW4RY0jmSv4CBqNVBrrbdXem2G7ZClrHh82KnaqznzfNNp4Z-yRuyLGkKdIdy_q1w0dy2yICsc/s400/THH+1977-11.16+s1p6+just+Steinhilber+house+photo+and+caption.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Over a year ago, I read a retrospective article in the <i>Tillamook Headlight Herald </i>of November 16, 1977, looking back twenty-five years to t<a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html">he storm that put an end to Bayocean.</a> The photo in the microfilm version was so bad I could not see any details, but the caption said the house sliding into the sea belonged to someone named Steinhilber. I didn't recognize the name, so I called Bayocean alumni. They didn't either. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">At the next opportunity, I looked through deed indexes at the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Tillamook County Clerks' office but </span><span style="font-size: large;">could find no evidence of a Steinhilber ever purchasing property in Bayocean Park. I did find that Theodore and Nannie Steinhilber had purchased part of Henry Sampson's original land claim on the north side of Cape Meares on September 14, 1898. This was long before the Potters platted Bayocean Park or any houses fell due to erosion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Searching Ancestry.com and online newspaper archives I discovered that Nannie was a niece of Henry and that Theodore had a land claim that eventually became part of the Lake Lytle subdivision. Friend and historian Don Best shared "Rockaway Memories," a history that his parents helped publish in 1981, which confirmed this. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Sometime later I found a folder titled "Steinhilber" at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum, but all it contained was a photo with "Mr. Steinhilber" written on the back. The 1977 article's caption attributed the photo to the museum, but I could not find it among their Bayocean photo collection. A few trips later I got a better copy of the photo itself from the original newspaper article that the Tillamook County Library was kind enough to let me view. It immediately became obvious the photo was not of Bayocean. The background looked like the north side of Cape Meares to me. I sent a copy to <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html">Perry Reeder</a> and <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/bayocean-park-plumbing.html" target="_blank">Mike Watkins</a>. They both concurred. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Realizing this made me wonder if the photo had been taken during the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cape Meares landslide of May/June 1899 <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/05/cape-meares-landslides.html">that I wrote about earlier</a>, which had nothing to do with erosion eventually caused by the north jetty. S</span><span style="font-size: large;">ources I'd used then provided a drawing with buildings, but no names. So I looked through issues of the </span><span class="gr-progress"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Tillamook Headlight </i>during that period </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">and found the p</span><span style="font-size: large;">rogressive destruction of Steinhilber's house reported in each issue for a month. The June 1st edition said that the same weekend Mr. Steinhilber visited his place an "excursion party came from Tillamook on Sunday, and also the brass band to see the landslide." The only photographer in Tillamook at the time was Otto Heins, so the photo was likely taken by him. The photo was not published in the <i>Headlight</i>, but Steinhilber's name was mentioned a lot during the 1890s. He had been one of the early owners of the <i>Headlight</i>, served as deputy sheriff, and made a living buying and selling property. He obviously didn't have good timing on this transaction, but uncle Henry only charged them $75 and took other property in trade.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilV7LW3vxhX4LyCkcy6onDFmQWFJC4pKwEjULtzwUQxzCT8GkA2IQW0EH6msqNFPPFB8svycyrKmh5gT50sEMvkCg4cPnQFCyMBqxpqSvryNSVtmD-gHNqa9jRBgUpabsj8t4mEhf5m8lC/s1600/Steinhilber+house+falling.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="1600" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilV7LW3vxhX4LyCkcy6onDFmQWFJC4pKwEjULtzwUQxzCT8GkA2IQW0EH6msqNFPPFB8svycyrKmh5gT50sEMvkCg4cPnQFCyMBqxpqSvryNSVtmD-gHNqa9jRBgUpabsj8t4mEhf5m8lC/s640/Steinhilber+house+falling.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span>When I shared my frustration at not being able to find the photo among their Bayocean collection, Ruby Fry-Matson suggested I look through their more general photo albums. Bingo. It was in "Album 2: Places," i</span><span>tem #500 contributed by Mr. & Mrs. Carl Hunt of Tilla</span><span>mook. </span><span>The caption was clear to me, but the reporter had evidently not understood how </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/04/barnaget-before-bayocean.html">Barnegat</a><span> and Bayocean were related in 1977. The photo in the newspaper cropped out one of the two buildings not affected by the slide. These WERE eventually destroyed by erosion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">See the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Index page</a><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> to find more stories like this.</span></span>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-81186633414859246872017-06-17T15:50:00.002-07:002023-04-14T08:10:52.533-07:00Sherwood House <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Photo from Lorraine Eckhardt's Bayocean album. <span style="font-size: 11.2px;">The </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">first and middle </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">names </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">of </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">Albert </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.2px;">George and </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">Orilla </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">Sarah </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">Jones </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">are reversed in many official and unofficial records. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>A handwritten note from </span><span>Howard Sherwood, Jr. (Buck) in the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/cape-meares-and-bayocean.html" target="_blank"><span>Cape Meares (Bayocean School) Community Center </span></a><span>scrapbook says </span><span>that George A. Jones </span><span>salvaged lumber from the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/05/competition-for-bayoceans-natatorium.html" target="_blank"><span>Bayocean Natatorium</span></a> <span>to build a large house for himself and his wife "Rilly" on Cape Meares in 1933 and 1934. He also </span><span>installed a</span><span> </span><span>buggy </span><span>above a tall hop plant out front, </span><span>rented out a few rooms, kept a few grocery items to sell picnickers, and called their place the "</span><span><span>Buggy </span><span>Knot Inn."</span></span><span> </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Testimony submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) by Jones in 1938</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> suggests another source of lumber for their home. He reported surveying and supervising early construction on Bayocean, from 1907 to 1909, and returning to the area in 1930. In 1932 he purchased and deconstructed the summer cabin of D.S. and Vesta Williams. </span><span style="font-size: large;">In 1961, Samual Dicken, head of the Oregon State University Geology Department, wrote in a report titled "Some Recent Changes of the Oregon Coast" that the Williams cottage was on a bench in the dunes about 50' above the beach and that he measured erosion at 1' per year from 1926 (when it first became noticeable) until 1932 when it jumped to 6' per year. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tillamook County Deed Book 32, page 535 (DB 32:535) shows they purchased lot 22 in block 67 (67:22) in 1915. Judge George Bagley and Swan Hawkinson, who also had Bayocean cottages, confirmed Jones' account in their testimony to the USACE. Hawkinson said the Williamses first tried moving their house uphill and away from the ocean. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Their cottage would have been much smaller than Jones' house so he needed more lumber. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Buck Sherwood told </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/bayocean-park-plumbing.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Mike Watkins</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, his </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">boyhood neighbor and </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">lifelong friend, that Jones</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""tahoma" , sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22.47px;"> built the house for less than $1000. This figure would have </span></span></span>included what Jones paid Williams and the </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tillamook-Bayocean Company who then owned the Natatorium. Why didn't Jones mention Williams to Buck (his family didn't move to Bayocean until 1938, so all of what he wrote must have come from Jones)? Perhaps it just wasn't as good a story. </span><span style="font-size: large;">If Jones had realized it, he could have bragged</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> that some of his home's lumber came from the most northerly home ever built on a Bayocean lot. The Williams cottage was near the end of the paved section of High Street, a half-mile north of the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2016/04/the-first-house-to-go.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">first house lost</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> five years earlier, and 1000' north of the Mueller cabin </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(see the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2017/06/moving-it-didnt-save-muellers-cabin.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">map in that post</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> to locate these properties) </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">moved over to the bayside five years later</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Jones had purchased the lot (</span><span style="font-size: large;">12:15) </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Oceanview Subdivision </span><span style="font-size: large;">from George Higgins back in 1915. While still serving as the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cape Meares Lighthouse Keeper, Higgins took advantage of Bayocean publicity by developing and advertising his lots in Tillamook newspapers (the <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2016/10/t-b-potters-success-before-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Potters</a> advertised in big city papers) </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as a lower priced alternative. Jones and his wife </span><span style="font-size: large;">bought eight adjacent</span> <span style="font-size: large;">lots (7-12 and 16 -17) during the 1930s. Buck said his family moved into the house in 1940. The deed for </span><span style="font-size: large;">Howard (Sr.) and Maude Sherwood's purchase of </span><span style="font-size: large;">all nine lots was not recorded until 1948 (DB 116:269) so they likely bought them on contract. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Members of the family continued living there until 1990, which is why neighbors still refer to it as the "Sherwood House."</span><br />
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Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com2Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-31591768158185530332017-06-07T11:49:00.007-07:002023-04-14T08:11:17.936-07:00Moving It Didn't Save Muellers' Cabin<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.2px; text-align: center;"> Lorraine Eckhart's Bayocean album includes this photo with notes added by <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/07/sherwood-house-built-with-lumber.html" target="_blank">Buck </a><span style="font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2017/06/sherwood-house.html" target="_blank">Sherwood</a>. </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">The </span>Notdurft cottage at the top<br />
was <span style="font-size: 11.2px;">t<a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/10/the-last-house.html" target="_blank">he last house to fall</a>. The "</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">Rainbow House" in the middle was deconstructed </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">by </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/cape-meares-and-bayocean.html">Lewis </a></span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/cape-meares-and-bayocean.html">and Hilda </a></span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/cape-meares-and-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Bennett</a>. </span><span style="font-size: 11.2px;">Their garage </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) built the <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html" target="_blank">breakwater that reconnected Bayocean spit</a> to the mainland in 1956, they also bulldozed and burned all but three of the buildings still standing, and then backfilled the entire area with sand dredged from the bay to add elevation and avoid future breaches. The house in the photo with its basement filled with sand and labeled "Mueller place" </span><span style="font-size: large;">had been moved there from the n</span><span style="font-size: large;">orthern ridgeline a couple decades earlier - to escape erosion. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">According to Tillamook County Deed Book 67, pages 280-281 (DB 67:280-281), Conrad and Elvira Mueller purchased lot 52 in block 67 (67:52) on June 11, 1932. This was on the ocean side of High Street, about 3/8 of a mile north of the <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/the-hicks-house.html">Poulsen (later Hicks/Dolan) houses</a>, directly across from the first Bayocean house owned by <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/07/the-children-of-bayocean.html">Judge George Bagley</a>, at lot 62:A (he also owned adjacent lots 13-16). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Testimony submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1938 by Judge Bagley </span><span style="font-size: large;">(POR-81; Civil Works Project Files, 1902-1968; Box 175; File 7250 Bayocean Preliminary Exams & Surveys. Seattle NARA) </span><span style="font-size: large;">said that a newer house across the street from his had been moved down to the bay just the year before (1937) in order to avoid the threat of erosion. Bagley and others mention two other houses in the same block that were deconstructed instead of moved. The Muellers likely chose to move theirs because they had just built it (one can only imagine that the rate of erosion had suddenly increased). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">D.C. Baker built a basement and placed the house for the Muellers on a</span><span style="font-size: large;"> lot they purchased </span><span style="font-size: large;">June 7, 1937</span><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-size: large;">at</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> 57:29 (DB 74:89). "Bayocean News" columns in the <i>Tillamook Headlight Herald</i> gave periodic updates during the summer and fall of 1937, talked about Baker having been an early manager of Cottage Park, and declared </span><span style="font-size: large;">on October 7</span><span style="font-size: large;">th</span><span style="font-size: large;"> that </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the house was "practically ready for occupancy again, after being moved from the hill to a location near the [Rainbow] Girl's Club building." </span><span style="font-size: large;">They later purchased adjacent lots 30 and 31 at foreclosure sales.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Section of original <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13l98ZrrYSK2Nz4pKCX_0bMTS1gTDm3o3/view">Bayocean plat map</a> from Tillamook County Surveyor's office. Mueller locations are colored green,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Muellers called their cabin on the bay "Huckleberry Inn" and traveled from their home in Portland to stay there frequently. A sketch on page 81 of </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/outside-reading.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Bayocean: The Oregon Town That Fell Into The Sea</a> refers to Conrad as "Horse." This is interesting given his WW II draft card lists<span style="font-family: inherit;"> his height at just 5'5". Censuses and directories indicate Mueller was a building contractor, so perhaps great strength earned him the nickname (sources were viewed at </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Ancestry</span><span style="font-size: large;">.com). </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>On May 8, 1945 (DB 90:607-608) the Muellers sold their cabin. By the time </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Perry Reeder's </a><span>family rented it in 1947 subsequent owners had hung a sign on the front porch renaming it the "Dew Drop Inn." Perry recalls the vine roses clinging to a fence that ran the perimeter of the property and made good use of the large chicken coop in the back. </span><br />
<span><br /></span> <span>The last owners of the house were</span><span> </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2016/10/four-currin-cabins.html" target="_blank">the Currins</a><span>, who p</span><span>urchased it June 25, 1952 (DB 134:90-91), just five months before the entire southern part of Bayocean was <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html">blown out by a winter storm</a>. This was the fourth house lost by the Currins on Bayocean. If they reasoned that "this would have to be one of the last houses to go" when they bought it they would have been right - but it did go. </span><br />
<span><br /></span> <span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">See the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Index page</a></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> for other posts listed by category. </span></span>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-83628020277596658542017-04-20T14:45:00.005-07:002023-05-08T06:50:15.613-07:00Barnegat Before Bayocean<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">When T.B. Potter created Bayocean Park in 1907 (see <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/the-bayocean-story-in-brief.html" target="_blank">The Bayocean Story In Brief</a>) he imagined it becoming a Pacific Coast version of Atlantic City. As it turns out, Potter wasn't the first person to be </span><span style="font-size: large;">reminded of east coast beaches by the spit.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGi-iB56ajWk9lVBpgziJwVmF5BTXqvBEF1ILuYQn-ougvifInRk-zi3fc498uqbD-R08JL9IMQ5vVYF0yXAE1om5S19JoR65rJHuBk9_8JNsrD2sgDtulHTixdpusKcg9sbBmgPYJBIiV/s1600/Mary+%2527%2527Wat+-Tiet%2527%2527+Hauxhurst.tif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGi-iB56ajWk9lVBpgziJwVmF5BTXqvBEF1ILuYQn-ougvifInRk-zi3fc498uqbD-R08JL9IMQ5vVYF0yXAE1om5S19JoR65rJHuBk9_8JNsrD2sgDtulHTixdpusKcg9sbBmgPYJBIiV/s320/Mary+%2527%2527Wat+-Tiet%2527%2527+Hauxhurst.tif" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Webley Hauxhurst was the first white settler on the mainland section of Bayocean Park, now known as </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cape Meares. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Dictionary_of_Oregon_History.html?id=-4bungEACAAJ"><em>Dictionary of Oregon History</em></a><em> </em>says Webley moved there </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">from Salem with </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">his Yamhill Indian wife </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Mary (</span><span style="font-size: large;">Wat-Tiet</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">) and their four youn<span style="font-family: inherit;">gest children in 1867 because it reminded him of L</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ong Island, New York, where he grew up. He piloted the schooner <i>Champion</i> between</span> Tillamook and Astoria to earn a living. The patent for</span><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=OROCAA%20032185&docClass=SER&sid=tnr0hyoe.wks">Homestead Claim # 843</a> was granted to Mary in 1877, three years after Webley died. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">In the fall of 1948, Jack Medcalf, a Salem artist and teacher, who was a native of Tillamook, built a small cabin on Bayocean by himself and lived there through the winter. His writings of that experience are held by the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. Jack</span><span style="font-size: large;"> seemed to enjoy listening to <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/the-mitchells-watch-bayocean-go.html" target="_blank">Mrs. Mitchell</a> </span><span style="font-size: large;">talk about the Bayocean she knew back in </span><span style="font-size: large;">1907. She told him the area was then known as Barnegat, which meant "place of peace" and that "</span><span style="font-size: large;">Webley Hauxhurst built his house down near the cape with a view of both the ocean and the bay through the meadows...that it was a large house, sprawling out but two stories. A large fireplace was of rock mortised with clay obtained in the banks of the bay over by Pitcher Point." On January 1, 1953, in an article in the <i>Tillamook Headlight-Herald </i>titled "As I Want To Remember Bayocean,"<i> </i>Dr. Elmer Allen recalled the Hauxhurst cabin “near the ocean just back of a low sandhill…what impressed me most was a little old lady, once an Indian Princess, Mrs. Hauxhurst, rocking in a chair beside the fireplace. Just a short distance from the house across a green meadow on the bayside was a boathouse and landing.” </span><br />
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M. Fairfield and M. Wayne Jensen, Jr. (2000, Tillamook County Pioneer Museum)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In June 1886, US Army Corps of Engineers Captain Charles F. Powell surveyed the area near Cape Meares in preparation for building the lighthouse. He showed the "Hoxie" house about 3/4 mile north of the cape. This places it at the south edge of Bayocean Park, halfway between today's Bayocean Park Rd. and Pacific Ave about 1000' off the modern dune ridgeline. Perhaps you stand under it as you chase the retreating waves on low tide. Note Henry Sampson's house also shown. It's most likely the smaller house still standing up close to the cape in the photo in my <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2017/10/steinhilber-house-slid-off-cape-meares.html" target="_blank">story on the Steinhilber house</a> sliding to the sea in 1899. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span>Portland builder and civic leader A.B Hallock began visiting the spit just before Webley died (</span><span><em>Absolom Hallock papers, Mss 92, </em>Oregon Historical Society). At end of 1880, h</span></span></span><span><span><span>e bought squatters rights and a cabin built by </span></span></span>Sarah Hauxhurst and her husband William Lattie and <span><span><span>retired there. Hallock's </span></span></span><span><a href="http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=OROCAA%20031375&docClass=SER&sid=rqmi2dp1.xhq">Homestead Claim # 2517</a> included most of what would become Bayocean Park. His cabin was on</span><span> the bay side of the spit, just north of what would later be called "Jackson Gap." He wrote of </span><span>"Ben</span><span> Hoxie</span><span>" herding cattle past his place </span><span>on a regular basis and seemed fond of Mary, who he visited regularly. </span><span><span><span>Journal entries in <em>Mss 92</em> indicate neighbors were getting their mail at Hallock's cabin by 1890, which he'd pick up for them on occasional trips to Hoquarton (later called Lincoln, finally Tillamook). The </span></span></span><span>June 12, 1891</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Tillamook Headlight </i>announced: "Capt. Hallock has received his commission as postmaster at Barnegat." On August 27 they reported Barnegat locals paying George Handley (grandson of Daniel Bayley who founded Garibaldi) to deliver the mail each Monday until the U.S. Postal Service established a contract. </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/oregon-geographic-names/oclc/600940906?referer=br&ht=edition" style="font-style: italic;">Oregon Geographic Names</a> Lewis A. McArthur </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">discredited reports that Hallock had named the post office after a childhood home on New Jersey's Barnegat Bay because he found no mention of this in Hallock's journal<em><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></em><span style="font-size: large;"> He attributed the naming to Thomas Sutherland who claimed to have dubbed the alcove nearby as Barnegat Bay prior to Hallock's arrival. However, all newspaper references called it "the spit" until the post office was established. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When Hallock died in 1892 his duties were transferred to Lizzie (Mrs. Bert) Biggs who she was one of the Hauxhursts' daughters. Her <a href="http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=OROCAA%20032205&docClass=SER&sid=4shpdnjw.k2k#patentDetailsTabIndex=0">Homestead Claim # 3471</a> (initiated prior to marrying Bert) included Pitcher Point, explaining why the coordinates provided by <a href="http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/g.cgi?fid=1132374&state=OR&ftype=ppl">Sateliteviews.net</a> and other websites refer to that location. The name of the post office was changed to Bayocean in 1909, but the <a href="http://interactive.ancestry.com/7884/4449647_00451?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fsearch%2fdb.aspx%3fdbid%3d7884%26path%3d&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnBrowsing">1910 Federal Census</a> still used Barnegat to identify the precinct. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To find stories about the earlier use of the spit by Tillamook Indians, and its exploration by earlier white men, see the <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html">Index page</a>.</span></div>
Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-45273073622489118522017-03-30T11:48:00.002-07:002023-04-14T08:11:47.836-07:00Crabapple Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">All the low lying Bayocean streets and buildings that survived the </span><span style="font-size: large;">November 1952 </span><span style="font-size: large;">breach and subsequent erosion were </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">buried by the US Army Corps of Engin<span style="font-family: inherit;">eers in</span> 1956</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2017/06/moving-it-didnt-save-muellers-cabin.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">Three houses</span><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: inherit;"> </span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;">at higher elevation</span><span style="font-size: large;"> survived initially. The <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/10/the-last-house.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">last one</span></a> fell in 1960. A few streets above the fill line were far enough back to not fall into the sea but were eventually buried by sand carried by the wind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">In October 2015, <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Perry Reeder</a> guided his family in excavating a small section of curb and pavement on the west side of High Terrace </span><span style="font-size: large;">(see plat map below</span><span style="font-size: large;">)</span><span style="font-size: large;">, a little north of 12th </span><span style="font-size: large;">Avenue, </span><span style="font-size: large;">just before it turned northwest and uphill. In my photo to the left, taken soon after the excavation, the </span><span style="font-size: large;">curb is the horizontal strip, aligned approximately north/south. The</span><span style="font-size: large;"> semicircle just below and east of it is the pavement. The spot straddles lots A and 2 </span><span style="font-size: large;">in Block 55. It was the spot Perry's family first parked their car in 1944, so they could rent a cabin in Cottage Park from Walter (Shorty) Locke, who lived across the street in lot 4. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I asked Perry how he found the spot, he said he used two crabapple trees to get his bearings. I was impressed with his memory and surprised to learn that some fauna had survived the wrath of the sea in this southern section of Bayocean. I'd not noticed them before but photographed them on my next trip. They're nestled in the lee of the highest remaining point south of the hills, lone sentinel to the Bayocean that once was. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Using </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/oregon-coastal-atlas.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Coast Atlas</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and adjusting for known discrepancies in tax lot overlays, my best estimate is that the trees are in lot 39 of block 54, perhaps extending into lot 38. Perry said he never met the owners and that no houses were ever built along the south side of 12th Avenue, so it remained park-like. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Deed records show lot 39 was owned by Gerald and Nellie Reeher during Perry's era, and lot 38 was owned by Martin and Jeanette Nelson. The Reehers eventually lost their lot to the county, but the Nelsons' son Donald is still on record owning theirs. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Gerald and Nellie Reeher moved to Tillamook in 1922 and started Reeher Furniture. They moved to Salem in 1935 according to the September 24, 1935, <i>Statesman Journal. </i>They<i> </i>must have become close friends with <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/the-mitchells-watch-bayocean-go.html" target="_blank">Francis and Ida Mitchell</a> while in Tillamook because the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Tillamook Headlight-Herald</i> </span><span style="font-size: large;">reported them giving Francis a ride (from the Oregon State Hospital in Salem) to Ida's funeral in 1953. And when Francis died in 1965, Nellie purchased a joint cemetery lot for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of this is just west of the Bayocean town site sign put up by </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html" target="_blank">the Reeders</a>. F</span><span style="font-size: large;">ollow the trail to the ocean from it and watch for a trail to the right (north) and a small driftwood fence. </span><span style="font-size: large;">GPS coordinates are 45.527324N 123.952463W</span><span style="font-size: large;">. To get to the townsite sign, walk north from the parking lot on Dike Road and</span><span style="font-size: large;"> look for a post engraved "Bayocean Town Site." Follow the trail west. Look for another post on the left and take the trail south from there to the townsite sign.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">When I visited the excavation in September 2018, I found that sand had already filled the bottom of the hole by more than a foot - the deepest I cared to dig with my hands.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Find other posts in this and other categories on the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Index page</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></span></div>
Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com1Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-91102234742060663302016-11-01T08:45:00.004-07:002023-04-14T08:11:59.846-07:00Farley Reset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Why the name Farley? <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/139075076235341/" target="_blank">Captain Robert Farley</a> was in charge of the first Coast Guard Lifesaving Station at Tillamook Bay from its beginning in 1908 until his retirement in 1935. Ironically, Captain Farley’s own home at Barview was a casualty of coastal erosion in 1915, soon after <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/11/tillamook-coastline-studied.html">construction on the north jetty began.</a></span>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com1Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-59788121112772553402016-10-16T16:51:00.111-07:002023-04-14T08:12:15.866-07:00Four Currin Cabins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">After chasing leads nowhere for months, I sent the photo to <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/perry-reeder-presentation-on-bayocean.html">Perry Reeder</a>. He recognized the house as one of two little cabins sitting next to each other </span><span style="font-size: large;">uphill and to the </span><span style="font-size: large;">northwest from the Strowgers who lived right on Bay Street. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Perry didn’t know the owners of the house. He and his buddies just called it the “fish pond house” because it had a manmade pond with some goldfish in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Perry’s description best fit block 48 on the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13l98ZrrYSK2Nz4pKCX_0bMTS1gTDm3o3/view?usp=sharing">Bayocean plat map.</a> I noticed that property taxes on the 1958 Tillamook Circuit Court foreclosure proceedings were much higher for lots 23 and 24 than others in the area. The lots were owned by H. W. and Laura E. Currin. </span><span>I found a 1919 p</span><span>hoto of Harvy William and Laura Estella Currin’s family at Find-A-Grave provided by their </span><span>niece,</span><span> </span><span>Anna Dunlap, and a biography written by one of their daughters, Ruth Currin Spaniol. After Dunlap confirmed that the Currins had lost a cabin on Bayocean, I read </span><span>Spaniol's biography </span><i><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/over-the-die-or-do-a-story-of-a-marriage/oclc/26604374&referer=brief_results">Over the die-or-do: a story of a marriage</a></i><span> </span><span>at the Oregon Historical Society.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Harvy Currin’s ancestors arrived in Oregon as pioneers in 1845 and settled at <a href="http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:1136196">Currinsville</a>, just north of Estacada. By the 1940s Harvy and Laura had a thriving real estate business in Hillsboro. They knew houses had been washing away for decades on Bayocean, but in 1945 decided to take a chance on “two little houses sitting side by side…they and all their family could have at least $600 worth of fun there before those houses, too, were washed away.” Even grandchildren helped fix up the cabins, including painting Dutch designs on shutters, which they recognized eight years later in the <i>Oregonian</i> photo. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Next, I searched Tillamook County deed indexes and learned that Ella May Hutchinson, a widow, had first purchased the two lots in 1911 for $450. She transferred an adjacent portion of each lot to P.D. and Elizabeth Hance in 1914, which is when the Oregonian listed Hutchinson among new cabin owners. The cabins went through several ownership transfers before the Currins purchased them. They went on to buy </span><span>most of block 47 during September and October of 1947. This was land between their cabins and Bay Street. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>In 1949, seeing the ocean approaching their hilltop cabins, the Currins bought another house further south on lot 33 of block 44. <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2017/06/sherwood-house.html" target="_blank">Buck Sherwood</a> recalled Judge Richardson owning the house. Deed Book 74, page 244 shows Richardson purchasing the lot on October 17, 1936. Bayocean News columns of December 17, 1936, and February 25, 1937, in the </span><i>Tillamook Headlight-Herald</i><i>, </i><span>describe</span><i> </i><span>Swan Hawkinson building a cabin there. Judge Richardson sold the cabin in 1945, it turned over a couple times before the </span><span>Currins purchased it. The Currins lost this cabin first because it was part of the spit that the </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html">ocean tore out on November 13, 1952</a><span>. “Fish pond house” and its partner were at the southern end of the island that remained, but </span><span>on </span><span>January 29, 1953, </span><span>the </span><span><i>Tillamook Headlight-Herald</i></span><span> reported them having fallen. The paper called them the "Pratt houses," mistakenly referring to previous owners. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span><br /></span></div>What most surprised me is that on June 25, 1952, just a few months before Bayocean became an island, the Currins bought lots 29-31 of block 57. The house on lot 29 may be remembered as Mueller’s by Bayocean alumni, but Frank and Rose Dordan, John and Ethel Scott, and Edwin and Jean Jenkins owned it after them. This Currin house was half-filled with sand by the <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html">US Army Corps of Engineers when they built the dike</a> that sealed the gap in 1956. It was one of just three houses they left standing. The last of these, belonging to the <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/10/the-last-house.html" target="_blank">Notdurfts</a>, fell in 1960. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1957 the Currins bought a lot in Garibaldi but sold it just four years later, not long before Harvy's death. Tillamook County deed records show the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> property passing through many hands over the decades since then. The current tax lot number eluded me but </span><span style="font-size: large;">Wendy Schink, Tillamook County Cartographer, quickly determined it was 21BD02200. This .86 acre lot climbs the hill behind Garibaldi and the home there has a great view of Bayocean. The Currins would have loved it. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">October 30, 2021 update: eBay has the print version of the Schonbrod photo used in the <i>Oregonian</i> for sale. A note at the bottom says it was taken January 23, 1953. <br /></span>
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Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com1Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-90223538745411569382016-10-03T14:48:00.006-07:002023-04-14T08:12:32.959-07:00T. B. Potter's Success Before Bayocean<div style="text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <i>1900 U.S. Census</i>
shows T. B. (Thomas Benton) Potter working as an advertising agent, and his
family living as boarders in a household of ten, at 232 S. Hill Street in Los
Angles, California. A year later they were living at 418 Eugene in
Portland, Oregon, and Potter had formed a real estate partnership with H.L.
Chapin, with offices at 246 Stark (<i>1901 and 1903 R.
L. Polk Portland City Directories </i>at Ancestry.com). They worked with landowners to carve homesteads into marketable lots and share the profits. From 1902 to 1906, Potter (with Chapin most of the time) created more than a dozen subdivisions in Kansas City, Missouri, Portland, Oregon, and in the San Francisco Bay area (<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/bayocean-the-oregon-town-that-fell-into-the-sea/oclc/19724404&referer=brief_results"><i>Bayocean:
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Appendix D</span>). They eventually lost the wealth acquired doing so in <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/p/the-bayocean-story-in-brief.html">chasing their Bayocean dream</a>. But neighborhoods continue giving tribute to their success, several of them being named after Potter's youngest daughter, Arleta. </span></div>
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lists four Alberta Parks. The first was platted in NE Portland in 1902. Alberta
Parks No. 2, 3, and 4 were platted in 1903 and 1904 in SE Portland. Multnomah County deed records show their Arleta Land Company purchasing and selling four additional subdivisions in NE Portland as well: Lester Park, Ina Park, Elberta Park, and Vernon. Incorporation papers at the Oregon State </span><br />
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within the <a href="https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/93588">Mt. Scott–Arleta Neighborhood</a> in SE Portland. Arleta Neighborhood grew up around the Potter-Chapin subdivision, with its school, </span><span>post office, and library. Grocery stores and other retail stores made it a retail hub </span><span>midway between downtown Portland and Lents on the Mt. Scott Trolley. The lots were cheap relative to the west side of the Willamette River, so working families could afford to buy them, build a home, and catch the trolley to work each day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1906 T. B. Potter developed another Arleta Park at Half Moon Bay on his own (as well as another subdivision called Reis, per California newspaper ads). He likely saw the potential of this area becoming a suburb of San Francisco by way of the <a href="http://www.halfmoonbaymemories.com/?p=2281">Ocean Shore
Railroad, which reached there in October, 1908</a>. Local history buffs indicate (via Wikipedia) that there was an <span lang="EN">Arleta Station at
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Arleta's descendants told the Webbers she changed her name to Natalia as an adult because she
didn’t appreciate her father naming subdivisions after her. One can just imagine schoolmates kidding her about it. She must have got her point across because nothing in Bayocean Park bore her name. </span>Ironically, Arleta was the last Potter to own a Bayocean lot. She stopped paying taxes on lot 81 in block 39 only after the sea destroyed it in <a href="https://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html" target="_blank">November 1952</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Building and running a resort requires a completely different skill set than developing subdivisions, but the Potters might have pulled it off if the railroad to Tillamook had not taken three years longer than promised to get people to Bayocean Park. The hectic schedule and stress are the most likely causes of Potter going insane in July 1910. His wife Fannie took him home to California, then across the world in search of a cure, but found none. He died at home in 1916. By then, his son Thomas Irving and Fannie had lost control of Bayocean to a court-mandated receivership. Two succeeding ownership groups couldn't make a financial go of it either. The Bayocean dream failed financially long before the ocean washed it away. </span>Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-44188649349354858342016-07-30T16:32:00.003-07:002023-04-14T08:12:46.357-07:00William George Owned Mitchell's General Store<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The mercantile operated by </span><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/the-mitchells-watch-bayocean-go.html" target="_blank">Francis and Ida Mitchell</a> <span>was the heart of Bayocean. It stood on the southwest corner of 12th Avenue and Bay Street, the town's main intersection. In the mid-1940s, the <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/07/the-children-of-bayocean.html" target="_blank">children of Bayocean</a> </span><span>would catch the school bus across the street. Everyone assumed the Mitchells owned the store. But they didn't. From 1917 on it belonged to </span><span>William George. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tillamook County Deed Book (DB) 21, pages 219-220, shows the Mitchells purchasing lot 44 in block 54 of Bayocean Park (</span><span style="font-size: large;">the store's legal description) on June 23, 1911, from the T.B. Potter Realty Company for $450. Tillamook County Mortgage Book (MB) U, page 114, shows the Mitchells taking out a loan for $500 from the Tillamook County Bank just a couple weeks later - on July 5th, 1911. On February 3, 1913 (MB U:413) the Mitchells took out another </span><span style="font-size: large;">loan for </span><span style="font-size: large;">$1200, which paid off the first, and agreed to keep $1000 insurance on their store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On August 6, 1914, the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Mitchells sold their property to G.W. Rice of Jackson County, Missouri, for $2000 cash. Rice also agreed to pay off their loan </span><span style="font-size: large;">(</span><span style="font-size: large;">DB</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">28</span><span style="font-size: large;">:268) but did not</span><span style="font-size: large;">. The Tillamook County Bank foreclosed on Rice and the Mitchells on June 21, 1915, and bought the property back at auction two months later for $1461.85 (including accrued interest at 8% and fees; </span><span style="font-size: large;">Circuit Court case 1633; DB 35:187</span><span style="font-size: large;">). The bank then sold the property to William George on June 6, 1917, for $1374.30 (DB 36:2). George maintained ownership until Tillamook County </span><span style="font-size: large;">foreclosed on the property for non-payment of taxes</span><span style="font-size: large;"> on </span><span style="font-size: large;">June 19, 1958 </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>(</span><span>DB 166</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">:579). Two years earlier </span><span style="font-size: large;">the store ruins had been burned and buried by contractors who built the <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/03/hayes-oyster-company-helped-fix.html" target="_blank">breakwater that sealed the gap created by a 1952 storm</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So who was William George? Deed records and</span><span style="font-size: large;"> tax foreclosures show no middle name or hometown. The Corps of Engineers found out who he was in 1956 because they added the middle initial "A" to their records but didn't get his signature, which meant that he had died. That points to William Albert George of Kansas City, who died on January 7, 1952, without heirs (located via Find-A-Grave on Ancestry.com). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Tom Olsen of <span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.8px;"> </span><a href="http://www.anchorpictures.com/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.8px;" target="_blank">Anchor Pictures</a> shared his<a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/06/videos-of-bayocean-history.html" target="_blank"> video on the history of the Port of Garibaldi </a>last year</span><span style="font-size: large;">, he told me of a video on Bayocean he'd produced twenty years ago. He recently found it, digitized it </span><span style="font-size: large;">(the original was shot on Hi-8), </span><span style="font-size: large;">and <a href="https://vimeo.com/166837060" target="_blank">uploaded it to Vimeo for all to view</a>. It tells the story of one of the houses lost to the sea, using an interview with <span>Nancy Lee Goldberg and photos provided by </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Betty Lou Roberts. Tom had not been told who owned the house, or the women's relationship, but I had to know. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Betty's last name was the main clue. I previously identified E.H. Roberts as the owner of the house shown on the right, by way of captions on photos of the same house in an </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Oregonian</i> story on February 19, 193, and a 1940 Army Corps of Engineers report. Records at </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ancestry.com list Betty as the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> daughter of Evan Harry and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Sylvana Huddleston Roberts, and that she died in 2002. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nancy was her cousin, the daughter of Winbert Huddleston, Sylvana's brother. Nancy refers to "Harry" in the video. Perhaps the woman on the beach is Sylvana. <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2016/02/the-war-dog-beach-patrol-of-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Pat Patterson </a>told me he helped the Robertsons remove items from the house before it fell. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nancy died on </span><span style="font-size: large;">May 10, 2016.</span></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tillamook County Deed Record 39, pages 331-333, shows E.H. Roberts buying the house on lots 29, 68, and the north halves of 28 and 69 in 1919 from the estate of W.J. Clemens, a Portland insurance man. This was just </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">north of <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2016/03/the-house-at-jackson-gap.html" target="_blank">Jackson Gap</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Westview (as Clemens dubbed the house) was moved back from the edge at the end of January </span><span style="font-size: large;">1940</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> after storms first breached Bayocean, but the sand kept giving way, and by early 1945 it was again in danger. Near </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the </span><span style="font-size: large;">end of February that year, t</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">he Roberts finally gave up and sold it for salvage to fellows named </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Strube and Barry</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was so large that each planned to build a house from the materials salvaged (with eleven rooms it must have rivaled the<a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/07/dolan-house.html" target="_blank"> three Poulsen houses</a>). After just a couple weeks of deconstruction - </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on </span><span style="font-size: large;">March 13 - </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the house crashed into the sea</span><span style="font-size: large;">. Beachcombers got what they could before continuing storms washed the rest away. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(<i>Oregonian </i>3.19; <i>Tillamook Headlight Herald</i> 3.15 and 3.22). </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjegLlNXl4nFs-dEf4fv1z2gx7GEwsFWtpE4iNI0WTggrFlb9Pyl3kGjeKOxK8_DhQUP5eHmunBpzNxeLzVsSYP-Oj4xdCQt0pzWiKHHOtjtMOfLXTU05abh71fQPox6vUejLzMbVbCC7Zc/s1600/Dick+Roberts+using+winch+to+bring+wood+up%252C+Nancy+Lee+Goldberg%252C+Tom+Olsen+video.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjegLlNXl4nFs-dEf4fv1z2gx7GEwsFWtpE4iNI0WTggrFlb9Pyl3kGjeKOxK8_DhQUP5eHmunBpzNxeLzVsSYP-Oj4xdCQt0pzWiKHHOtjtMOfLXTU05abh71fQPox6vUejLzMbVbCC7Zc/s400/Dick+Roberts+using+winch+to+bring+wood+up%252C+Nancy+Lee+Goldberg%252C+Tom+Olsen+video.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">E.H. Roberts was the President of the Roberts Brothers department store, located at SW Morrison and 3rd in Portland. His father Thomas had founded it fifty years earlier, and his</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> sons Richard and William (Betty's brothers) carried on the family tradition. (<i>Oregonian</i> 10.18.1952). In Tom's video, Nancy identifies the boy in the photo to the left as Dick. He's lifting driftwood up from the beach below, for use as firewood, using a winch they rigged up for that reason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nancy makes an interesting point: summers at Bayocean were wonderful for kids but hard on mothers. These women left behind all the conveniences, social life, and cultural activities of city life, for the relative isolation of a spit. Their husbands could bring a few things with them when they took the train to visit on long weekends, but mostly they were stuck with whatever provisions <a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/08/the-mitchells-watch-bayocean-go.html" target="_blank">the Mitchells</a> offered.</span></div>
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Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272260915472589853.post-77473775821272852342016-04-25T13:54:00.003-07:002023-04-17T07:57:29.764-07:00Southern Pacific Railroad Brochures <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bayocean.net/2015/07/the-children-of-bayocean.html" target="_blank">Sue Bagley Barr</a> recently sent me three brochures, produced by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1913, 1914, and 1915, that promote travel by rail to visit the beaches of Tillamook County. Interior pages are full of wonderful historic photos. Front covers show bathing beauties in period fashion and Sue's skill at digital restoration. She was kind enough to let me share the brochures with readers. You can download them <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4i7aZoF1HTBVnI5MnZKYlZqQjg?resourcekey=0-Xixy3TmIvpMwo2EFv6LaoQ&usp=sharing" target="_blank">here.</a></span><br />
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Jerry Sutherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643951253977671184noreply@blogger.com0Tillamook Bay, Oregon, USA45.5159802 -123.919449517.205746363821156 -159.07569949999998 73.82621403617884 -88.7631995