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3 unusual facts about Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River


Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River

By 1885, the Oregon Pacific Railroad had been built from the Willamette Valley all the way through to Yaquina City.

Once the Oregon Pacific Railroad reached Toledo, on the east end of Yaquina Bay, tourists started coming to the bay from the Willamette Valley.

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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