Oregon North Coast · OR
Pacific City
Dories launched through the surf below Cape Kiwanda.
- Population
- 1,109 (2020 census)
- Cannery
- 1886–1926
- Renamed
- 1909
Then
- 1876
Chief Nestugga Bill and about 200 Nestugga people are moved to a reservation.
- 1886
A cannery opens on Nestucca Bay, shipping 12,000 cans of salmon a year.
- 1893
Thomas Malaney plats Ocean Park. A flood the next year moves the town south.
- 1909
The town becomes Pacific City.
- 1926
Commercial salmon fishing in the bay ends, and fishermen turn to surf-launched dories.
Now
A few fishermen still launch dories from the beach at Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area.