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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25DW_the-tillamook-burn_Seaside-OR.html
Oregon's historic Tillamook forest fire of 1933 spread over 240,000 acres of forest land. Fires in 1939 and 1945 brought the total to 355,000 acres. Over 13 billion board feet of timber were killed.
Devastation by these disastrous fires aroused …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25DT_dennis-l-edwards-tunnel_Seaside-OR.html
The Dennis L. Edwards Tunnel is located on the Sunset Highway 12 miles east of here.
The tunnel was named by the Oregon Transportation Commission on August 21, 2002, in memory of Dennis L. Edwards, who on January 28, 1999, lost his life in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25DL_gilbert-inn-1892_Seaside-OR.html
Alexandre Gilbert, one of the founding fathers of Seaside, was born in the coastal town of LaRochelle, France on April 16, 1845, the son of Frank and Mary Gilbert. At the age of twenty-four and just prior to the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71), Alex…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25DJ_tsunami_Seaside-OR.html
Seaside
Devastating waves called "tsunamis" can strike Oregon's coast at any time. These giant waves are caused by great undersea earthquakes. Such earthquakes can occur along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, one of the largest active fau…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM257D_a-convenient-place-for-making-salt_Seaside-OR.html
The Corps of Discovery, under the command of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, established their winter quarters at Fort Clatsop on 7 December 1805. "We haveing fixed on this situation," Clark noted, "I deturmin'd to go as direct …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM257C_the-saltworks_Seaside-OR.html
After the Lewis and Clark Expedition was established at Fort Clatsop, members of the group camped here from January 2 to February 21, 1806. The explorers conveniently found stone to build an oven, wood to burn, fresh water to drink, elk to hunt, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM257B_lewis-clark-salt-cairn_Seaside-OR.html
On January 2, 1806, the Salt Works was established by the three "salt makers" of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Joseph Fields, William Bratten and George Gibson, who remained here until February 20, 1806. These men, assisted at times by h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM257A_site-of-the-lewis-and-clark-salt-camp_Seaside-OR.html
Site of
Lewis and Clark
Salt Camp
1805-06
Oregon Historical Society
Custodian
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2579_ekkoli-a-whale-of-a-tale_Seaside-OR.html
Weary of boiled elk and dog meat, Captain William Clark and a dozen other explorers left their winter encampment at Fort Clatsop on January 6, 1806, in search of the whale beached on present day Cannon Beach. This trek was the farthest west that a…