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Naval Air Station Tongue Point is a former United States Navy air station which was located within the former U.S. Naval Station Tongue Point, Astoria, Oregon. [1]In 1919, the United States Congress approved the construction of a submarine and destroyer base on Tongue Point, a peninsula jutting into the Columbia River east of Astoria, Oregon. [2]
Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains . [ 6 ]
The house was built by Joseph W. Suprenant, but the identity of the architect is unknown. [2] The Colonial Revival-style house was the second residence of Captain George Conrad Flavel (1855–1923), his wife Winona and their son Harry, after they moved to it in 1901 from their first home, an 1879-built, smaller and more plain house that is also listed on the National Register, as the George C ...
There was also an earlier vessel in 1890 called Winona, which operated in the lower Columbia on the Deep River route. [39] In 1908, Wenona made daily runs between Astoria and Gray's River, and Jordan ran on the Astoria-Deep River route. [1] The other steamers were employed towing log rafts in and around Astoria. [1]
With the exception of the Second World War, from 1924 to 1966, MV Tourist No. 2 was in service on the Astoria–Megler Ferry route on the Columbia River.Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US Army purchased the vessel as the FB or JMP 535 to lay mines at the mouth of the river.
The cannery was run by the Astoria Packing Company, of which Marshall J. Kinney, son of Robert C. Kinney, was president. [5] During 1881 the complex, then referred to as the "largest and most extensive salmon-packing establishment on the Pacific Coast", reportedly packed 26,000 cases of salmon . [ 5 ]
The personnel then proceeded fifteen miles up the river to present-day Astoria, Oregon, [16] where they spent two months laboring to establish Fort Astoria. Some trade goods and other materials that composed the cargo were transferred to the new trading post. [36] During this work, small transactions with curious Chinookan Clatsop people occurred.
USCGC Steadfast completed her final Coast Guard patrol on December 18, 2023 [5] and was decommissioned in Astoria on February 1, 2024 after 56 years of service. Upon decommissioning the ship entered Excess Defense Article status and proceeded to Baltimore, Maryland where she was made available to sale to other countries via the Coast Guard's ...