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Yaquina City: 4 December 1887: This steamship was the predecessor of Yaquina Bay. Lost a year later at the same spot, effectively ruining the vessel owners, the Oregon Development Co. Newport: Yaquina Bay United States: 9 December 1888: Originally named Caracas. She was the sister ship of Valencia and successor of Yaquina Bay.
Beeswax wreck. Coordinates: 45.656°N 123.947°W. A piece of beeswax found on Manzanita beach. The Beeswax Wreck is a shipwreck off the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, discovered by Craig Andes near Cape Falcon in 2013 in Tillamook County. The ship, thought to be the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos that was wrecked in 1693, was ...
CL. According to several historians, the U.S. state of Oregon contains over 200 ghost towns. [1][2] Professor and historian Stephen Arndt has counted a total of 256 ghost towns in the state, some well known, others "really obscure." [3] The high number of ghost towns and former communities in the state is largely due to its frontier history and ...
Peter Iredale. Coordinates: 46.178361°N 123.981003°W. Peter Iredale in Seattle, circa 1900. Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River. She was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens in Warrenton about four miles (6 km) south of the Columbia River channel.
Neahkahnie Mountain is a mountain, or headland, on the Oregon Coast, north of Manzanita in Oswald West State Park overlooking U.S. Route 101. The peak is part of the Northern Oregon Coast Range, which is part of the Oregon Coast Range. [1] It is best known for stories of Spanish treasure said to be buried either at the foot of the mountain, or ...
Waldo, Oregon. / 42.06111°N 123.64694°W / 42.06111; -123.64694. Waldo is a ghost town located in Josephine County, Oregon, United States, about three miles from the California border. [1] It was settled in 1852 as a gold mining camp called Sailor's Diggings. [1] [2] [3] The place was later renamed "Waldo" in honor of William Waldo ...
458 and 541. GNIS feature ID. 1138957 [1] Buncom (also spelled Bunkum or Buncombe) is an abandoned mining town at the confluence of the Little Applegate River and Sterling Creek in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It is approximately 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Medford, [2] at an elevation of 1,783 feet (543.5 m) above sea level.
Auburn is a ghost town in rural Baker County, Oregon, United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Auburn lies off Oregon Route 7 southwest of Baker City and east of McEwen on the edge of the Blue Mountains . Auburn is deserted today, but the former gold mining boomtown was once the largest community in Eastern Oregon . [ 4 ]