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Ocean Park was once a station on the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, a narrow gauge railroad that ran along the Long Beach Peninsula from 1889 to 1930. [5] One of the oldest buildings in Pacific County is the Taylor Hotel building, built in 1887, currently in use as Adelaide's Cafe and Bookstore named after Adelaide Taylor, [6] the wife of the original hotel owner.
The depot at Ocean Park was located on the east side of the tracks immediately to the north of a road crossing. There were several businesses in the area. The railroad transported boxes of canned razor clams from canneries at Ocean Park. The railroad also built a siding in Ocean Park for the Ilwaco Mill & Lumber Company. [28]
He arrived in Washington in 1906, attended the Washington State Normal School in Bellingham, and became a teacher and principal in Tacoma in 1907–1909. [4] In 1911, he married his wife, Virginia, honeymooning on property in Ocean Park that he had purchased the same year.
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [3] and 19 of those are found in Pacific County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
Pacific County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,365. [1] Its county seat is South Bend, [2] and its largest city is Raymond.
Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California; Ocean Park, Maine. Ocean Park Historic Buildings; Ocean Park, Oregon, adjacent to Beverly Beach; Ocean Park (Santurce), San Juan, Puerto Rico Ocean Park Beach; Ocean Park, Washington
The U.S. state of Washington has over 140 state parks that are managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission. These include 19 marine parks and 11 Historical Parks. The park system was established in 1913 by the creation of the Washington State Board of Park Commissioners. [ 2 ]
Rialto Beach is a public beach located on the Pacific Ocean in Washington state. It is adjacent to Mora Campground in the Olympic National Park near the mouth of the Quillayute River, and is composed of an ocean beach and coastal forest. The many miles of seaside topography offer views of sea stacks and rock formations in the Pacific Ocean. [1]