Keyword(s): Virginia Story
Pacific County, named after the Pacific Ocean, is perched at the southwestern corner of Washington state. The ocean forms its western border and the north shore of the Columbia River and Wahkiakum Cou...
On December 1, 1843, Englishman James A. Scarborough (1805-1855) settles at Chinook Point on the Columbia River in what will become Pacific County, Washington. Scarborough will file a Donation Land Cl...
On February 4, 1851, the Oregon Territorial Legislature forms the new Pacific County. The county starts quite small and will soon increase in size. The county seat begins in Pacific City, near what i...
In 1851, oysters from Shoalwater (later Willapa) Bay start feeding San Francisco. The oyster business will flourish in the bay until the 1880s and will be an important cause of settlement in the area.
In 1877, the U.S. Revenue Marine Cutter Service (forerunner of U.S. Coast Guard) founds the Fort Canby Life Saving Station to monitor and service the treacherous river bar where the Columbia River ent...
On November 24, 1969, Joe Rhodes of Colville, in Stevens County, finds Sasquatch tracks in Bossburg. Sasquatch or "Bigfoot" is a seldom- or possibly never-seen, rather enormous, alleged beast, possibl...