Reedsport to Brookings, places to stay; winter deals
(Lincoln City, Oregon) – Part one of this series went over how a few south and central Oregon coast towns got their names, including Gold Beach, Bandon, Coos Bay, Yachats, Newport, Nye Beach and Depoe Bay.
(Above: Cape Kiwanda in the early part of the century)
In part two, this bit of time travel takes you through the surprising historical twists and turns of Gleneden Beach, Lincoln City, Pacific City, a few landmarks, Tillamook, Arch Cape, Cannon Beach, Seaside and Astoria.
Gleneden Beach s Name. The tiny, unincorporated village just south of Lincoln City was originally called Sijota, back when it was really just farmland settled by a family from Poland by that name, sometime around 1900 or so. In the 1920s, just as Highway 101 was getting built, the Carey family bought up parcels of land here, and named them Gleneden. It was a combo of their daughter s name, Glen, and the term “eden.” As 101 progressed in construction
Reedsport to Brookings, places to stay; winter deals
The history of tourist lodging on the Oregon coast runs an interesting evolutionary route: from tent cities, to cabins, auto parks, a unique thing called motor lodges, and then finally to motels, with hotels running a parallel existence in some ways.
On the north Oregon coast, tourism started off sooner as trains started coming to Seaside from Portland about 1880. On the southern coast – according to the Coos History Museum and the Oregon Coast Historical Railway Museum in Coos Bay – it wasn’t until 1916 that trains brought visitors there. In some places, like Newport, people started coming by boat first.