Standing in the Gap for Oregon

Cloverdale Church, Tillamook County, OR And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. Isaiah 32:18 Tillamook County, just south of Clatsop, is a continuation of the romance and mystery of Oregon’s north coast. It is believed to be one of the first places Sir Francis Drake set foot on the West Coast, and there are fascinating stories of buried treasure and shipwrecks from the 1600s. Neahkahnie Mountain, a headland between the counties of Clatsop and Tillamook, was considered a sacred place by the Tillamook Indians. There have long been rumors of treasure buried there by Spanish sailors, as well as a shipwreck that left huge amounts of beeswax and pottery along the beach just south of the headland. It wasn’t just the Spanish who washed up at the foot of the sacred mountain – Japanese junks and sailors are also rumored to have landed there. Tillamook County, OR Modern-day Tillamook County offers lush rural farms and communitie...

Neahkahnie Mountain Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business on great waters, they see the works of the Lord, And His wonders in the deep. Psalm 107:23-24 Tillamook County was the 12 th to be organized in Oregon’s early days (1853). It has a population of about 27,787 spread over 1,127 square miles. The town of Tillamook is the county seat. This area of the state is full of fascinating and romantic features. The Tillamook State Forest, the reforested site of the catastrophic Tillamook Burn, a series of fires that destroyed 350,000 acres of old growth forest in the coast range during the years 1933 – 1951, is now a beautiful recreation and timber area. Tourism is a big part of the economy with vacationers renting cottages and campsites all along the Pacific Coast. They visit the Tillamook Air Museum at the site of the former Naval Air Station, and the Tillamook Cheese factory as well as the seafood restaurants, saltwater taffy shops, art galleries all up and down Hig...