Standing in the Gap for Oregon

  Lincoln City, Oregon My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.  Isaiah 32:18   As you travel south down the Oregon coast, Lincoln County is next in line after Tillamook. It was created from western sections of Benton and Polk Counties, but later than Tillamook - not until 1893. Named after Abraham Lincoln, the county seat for many years was Toledo. In 1954, however, it lost the election to Newport which has been the county seat since.   Both Newport and Lincoln City are popular places to vacation, with the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, and museums, shopping and seafood in both towns. While my coast trips as a child centered around Tillamook and Pacific City, as an adult I have gravitated more toward Lincoln City and Newport. We have often visited there either on family trips or with friends.   In 2017 my daughter and I went to Lincoln City and on one of our excursions visited Toledo, just a few miles a...

Cape Kiwanda And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.  Isaiah 32.18 Tillamook is one of the older counties. The Oregon Territorial Legislature created it out of parts of Clatsop, Yamhill and Polk counties in 1853, the 12 th county to be established. The town of Tillamook, population roughly 5,000, is the county seat and the first community to be settled beginning in 1851.   Tillamook County also has the distinction of being where the first American explorer, as far as we know, set foot on the Northwest coast. On August 14, 1788 Captain Robert Grey, sailing the “Lady Washington” dropped anchor in Tillamook Bay and came ashore. He believed, or hoped, that the bay was the mouth of the “great river of the west” everyone was looking for in those days.    Oh my. How to write about Tillamook County? I could easily turn a blog post into a full-length autobiography. I have very early memories of Tillamook County ...