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Ocean Park was once a station on the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, a narrow gauge railroad that ran along the Long Beach Peninsula from 1889 to 1930. [5] One of the oldest buildings in Pacific County is the Taylor Hotel building, built in 1887, currently in use as Adelaide's Cafe and Bookstore named after Adelaide Taylor, [6] the wife of the original hotel owner.
The Wreckage is a log house in Ocean Park, Washington, constructed of unhewn logs in 1912.The house was built by author Guy S. Allison on the Long Beach Peninsula as a beach house, using salvaged materials.
Location of Pacific County in Washington. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Pacific County, Washington, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
Long Beach, WA depot under restoration Klipsan Beach Life Saving Station, NHS Taylor Hotel building, Ocean Park, WA. Since 1966, the Astoria-Megler Bridge has crossed the Columbia River, replacing the ferry lines. Its northern bridgehead is just about midway between McGowan and the site of the railway's Megler dock to the east.
Nahcotta, WA 1893. Nahcotta was first settled in 1890 by J.A. Morehead and named for Nahcati, the chief of a local Chinook tribe. [1] [2] Nahcotta was once the northern terminal of the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, a narrow gauge railroad which ran from Ilwaco, and later from Megler, in southwestern Pacific County, up the Long Beach Peninsula to Nahcotta and back, once a day.
Cape Disappointment Station is also the site of the oldest search and rescue station within the Thirteenth Coast Guard District. The station's Area of Responsibility reaches from Ocean Park on the Washington Coast south to Tillamook Head on the Oregon Coast. [1]
Ocean City State Park is a state-operated, public recreation area on the Pacific Ocean in Grays Harbor County, Washington, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of downtown Ocean Shores. The park offers 170 acres (69 ha) of beach, dunes, and lodgepole pine and activities that include picnicking, camping, fishing, scuba diving, swimming, clam digging ...
North Head Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation overlooking the Pacific Ocean from North Head, a rocky promontory located approximately two miles north of Cape Disappointment and the mouth of the Columbia River, [2] near Ilwaco, Pacific County, in the U.S. state of Washington. [3] It is part of Cape Disappointment State Park. [4]