The annual meeting of the Tillamook Co. Historical Society will be held at Bay City Arts Center (BCAC) January 28, 2018, at 1 p.m. A very good soup, salad, home-made bread, dessert…
Category: Local History
Ran out of steam, Tillamook’s steam donkey finds new home in Brooks
By Chelsea Yarnell Tillamook’s steam donkey has found a new home. Despite some local efforts to keep the steam donkey in its hometown, Tillamook County Pioneer Museum Director Gary Albright reported that…
Celebrate the Season at Tillamook County Pioneer Museum’s Festival of Trees
The Festival of Trees at the Pioneer Museum provides festive trees decorated in a variety of themes and put up for auction to benefit the Museum’s programs. The Gala Event and…
Hangar B History (Titan of Tillamook)
By Phyllis Rice, Tillamook Air Museum Director With the attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 fresh in the minds of Americans, plans to defend our coasts from enemy attack were…
Veterans Day Event: MILITARY HISTORY IN OREGON at Pioneer Museum
MILITARY HISTORY IN OREGON In honor of Veterans’ Day, the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum will present a program by Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Alisha Hamel, Saturday, November 11 at 1 p.m. Her topic…
BEST OF HISTORY: Columbus Day Storm Memories – Oct. 12, 1962
By Don R. Best If you are old enough to remember, what are your stories of the Columbus Day storm of October 12, 1962? What I was doing was loading a shingle…
Nehalem Bay Area History Classes presented by Mark Beach, Ph.D.
Sponsored by the Nehalem Valley Historical Society You are invited to enjoy learning about the long and rich history of Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler and surrounding communities. Join us each Monday and Thursday…
BEST OF HISTORY: Remembering Rockaway …
By Paul Pintarich, as told to Don Best (2/7/08) They called it the “Daddy Train” and on summer weekends, it arrived with fathers from Portland to visit wives and children tent camping…
Tillamook Burn Revisted
Editor’s Note: The recent devastating fire in the Columbia Gorge, I’ve been reminded of the Tillamook Burn, and how my parents and grandparents always talked about the devastation. My grandfather was a…
Best of History: Famed Journalist, Writer Paul Pintarich Shared Memories of Rockaway’s Natatorium
By Don R. Best NOTE: Paul Pintarich was a good friend of Karla Steinhauser’s (of Karla’s Smokehouse), and I met Paul when he was visiting her in 2007 or early 2008. He…