[or-roots] Bayocean

[Leslie Chapman]

Anne and Gary;

Annes question got my curious up and I had to go see what the heck she was
talking about, for anyone else curious here is  a short summary;

From; http://www.kxl.com/ArDisplay.aspx?SecID=176&ID=28766

All this happened around the 1910’s, with 1913 probably finding the place at
its height. But heavy erosion in the area, failed business deals and finally
the Great Depression ended the life of what was to be the “Atlantic City of
the West.”

By 1952 - when the spit was breached by a really bad winter – its streets
were broken and crumbled and the place was a ghost town. A few years later,
the government burned and bulldozed the majority of the buildings left. By
1971, the last of the remaining buildings had fallen into the sea.

These days, sandy bluffs are all that’s left and you see no trace of the
former resort. Although some locals say you can spot remnants of some parts
of the community at extremely low tides – or even leftovers of foundations
in shallow parts of the bay and nearby Meares Lake.


to see a really good selection of photos of Bayocean, the Atlantic City of
the West go to;

http://www.pdxhistory.com/coast/bayocean/bayocean.html

Amazing how little  I know about my state when I have traveled it and read
about it and lived in it lo these many years.

Les C


Gary,

Are you familiar with the 1989 book by Bert Webber:  "Bayocean, the
Oregon town that fell into the sea."  ?

Anne Billeter
billeter at entwood.com


Gary Murray wrote:

>cape mears is so beautiful.  just before you drive into cape mears, or
about 2 miles back is what used to be the town of bayocean.  what a history
that place has.  i remember as a young kid when the natatorium broke up and
slid into the ocean.  i was there.  it is nice to take that road over to
where the town used to be and walk across to the beach.  if you walk
straight ahead on the road you will come to where the ocean dumps into
tillamook bay.  you can look directly across and see barview and that other
little town.  it is a great walk and you will see deer and ducks and all
kinds of things.  there is also a place where there is still some of the
pavement from the old road although it has buckled and is just laying in a
pile.  i came so close to buying 10 acres about 1/2 mile from the beach.  we
lived 16 miles south of tillamook on hiway 101 and i had just had enough of
the beach and its weather.  i have been a lot of places but i have yet to
see any other beach that compares with the oregon coast.  i hope to go back
to oregon in august or sept. of this year for a month and hopefully i will
get to the coast.  i love to go by the old place.  i went to a two room
school in hemlock, which really doesn't exist anymore.  we were only 4 miles
from the thriving metropolis of beaver, ore.
>gary in az.
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