It is a summer resort town with events that attract large numbers of tourists. In 1881, H. H. Tinker named the place when he built a large hotel. This hard, sandy beach faces the Pacific Ocean and is three hundred feet wide at low tide. While much of the beach is open year round to vehicles, the beach is a designated state highway with a speed limit of 25 mph.

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Lewis and Clark Monument

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A resort area and an Ilwaco Railroad station at the northern boundary of the town of Long Beach in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The Tioga Hotel was the focus of the resort and gave the railroad station its name. J.M. Arthur, proprietor of the hotel later built the Breakers Hotel in 1901. Tioga is an Iroquois Indian word meaning "where it forks." Tioga is now within the city...

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A resort community. George T. and Hannah Easterbrook settled nearby in the late fall of 1853. Richard and Mary Carruthers settled on land south of Easterbrook's in 1854. Both families filed for Donation Land Claims which are now part of various ocean side subdivisions. The name was given by developers of the first subdivision. Oceanside was an unscheduled Ilwaco railroad stop between 1908 and 1930.

Mile: 5

A life-saving station operated there for some years by the Coast Guard. This Indian name, meaning sunset was chosen by Capt. Theodore Conic, of the U.S. Coast Guard. The earliest buildings constituting the Klipsan Beach Life Station were constructed in 1891 with the last structure, the radio tower, erected in 1931. At different times, the station served both the Coast Guard and the Navy until, in 1947, the government moved...

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Klipsan Beach Life Saving Station

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The center was founded as a resort by Ocean Park Camp Meeting Association in 1888 as a Christian summer resort for members. Sponsored by the Taylor Street Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon, it was named by Rev. William R. Osborn for Ocean Park, New Jersey, which he also founded and named.

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The Wreckage

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Near numerous oyster beds, is the site of a large oyster cannery. In 1889 Nahcotta became the northern terminal of a narrow-gauge railroad now abandoned, which once constituted the transportation system of the peninsula. Oyster shells are still seen piled high at Nahcotta’s harbor, testimony to the continued importance of the plentiful beds. At one time there were two adjoining towns. The south side was platted as Nachotta and the...

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The most northerly settlement on the peninsula, was founded in 1854, and became the seat of Pacific County in 1861. For a while oystering prospered, but the town declined when parasites and pollution of the waters caused severe losses. The rival town of South Bend, pointing to promised railroad connections, won the county seat in 1892. In the long dispute that followed, Oysterville protested that railroad workers had been illegally...

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Oysterville Historic District

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A low, sandy point of land is at the north end of the North Beach Peninsula. On July 5, 1788, it was named Low Point by Capt. John Meares. In 1852, Lieut. James Alden of U.S. Coast Survey changed the name to honor Lieut. Danville Leadbetter, an associate in the survey. The park is part of Willapa National Wildlife Refuge.

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