By 1885, the Oregon Pacific Railroad had been built from the Willamette Valley all the way through to Yaquina City.
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Once the Oregon Pacific Railroad reached Toledo, on the east end of Yaquina Bay, tourists started coming to the bay from the Willamette Valley.
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When a survey by the United States Army Corps of Engineers showed the harbor at Yaquina Bay to be deeper than had been supposed, interest in development of the area boomed.
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