When, on Feb. 26, 1852, property owners of Pacific City were ordered to vacate the site immediately to make way for a military reservation wit…
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Officially, Pacific City existed from March 22, 1849 to Feb. 26, 1852. It’s difficult to identify where it was located, no matter how you migh…
Although Pacific County’s first city was over almost before it had begun, an astonishing number of the area’s earliest and most influential se…
One of the myths that some historians have perpetuated over the years is that Henry Yesler of Seattle operated the “first steam sawmill in the…
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Upon first learning of the earliest city in Pacific County — a city located on Cape Disappointment — the response is usually, “Really! Where?”…
<p>Publisher and historian</p><p>Frank Turner</p><p>Father of Martha Murfin</p>
<p>Pacific City was in sharp decline by the time this map was published in a congressional report in 1857. Pacific City was the first co…
EDITORS NOTE: The Souwester under Larry Weathers, Ruth Dixon, Joan Mann, Ruth McCausland, Bruce Weilipp, Steve Rogers and other careful st…
COLUMBIA RIVER - The U.S. Coast Guard had a busy weekend on the North Coast, rescuing and assisting a surfer, a fisherman and a pleasure boater.
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