Yaquina Bay, like Coos Bay, is a shallow coastal bay on the Oregon Coast in the Northwest Pacific North America. The main town in Yaquina Bay is Newport, Oregon. The Yaquina River flows into the bay. Until modern roads reached Newport in the late 1920s, the main transport method to and from Newport was by boat or boat.
Video Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River
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The entrance to the bay is just south and west of Newport. The Yaquina Bay bridge, designed by Conde McCullough, now carries the Oregon Coast Highway (US 101) across the bay entrance. Before the bridge was built, it is necessary to take the ferry to reach the south coast. To the east of Newport on the north side of the bay is a settlement called Olssonville. Further up the bay is the town of Yaquina City. About a mile south of the City of Yaquina is Oneatta Point, where the bay turns almost to the east and becomes the Yaquina River. Yaquina City was a boom town in the 1880s, when for example in 1887 144 vessels cleared the harbor.
On the corner of Oneatta Point there is a town of Winant on the north bank and Oysterville to the south. Sailing ships in the sea can come as far as the Bay of Yaquina City. About 4 to 5 miles above Yaquina was the city of Toledo, the county district from 1893 to 1953. The further rivers, nine miles from his mouth, were Elk City, who was the head of navigation on the Yaquina River.
Maps Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River
Initial years
The entire area of ​​Yaquina Bay (and most of the Oregon coast to the north and south) was set aside in the 1850s as the Coast Indian Reservation. This did not last long, and on January 8, 1866, the area of ​​Yaquina Bay opened up to a white settlement.
In 1868, a regular mail service was established between Corvallis and Toledo. A stage line was established between Corvallis and Toledo, which takes place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (and only once a week during winter) that takes twelve hours to reach Elk City. Once there, travelers will spend the night in a hotel, then board the steamboat to the river and across the bay to Newport, where a small pier has been built.
Steamboat propellers did most of this service, but in 1872, the Oneatta sidewheeler Oneatta was launched in Pioneer, ran in the bay for a while and then moved to the Columbia River, then on in 1882, to Humboldt Bay. Then, Rebecca C and Cleveland also ran in Yaquina Bay.
Sea route to San Francisco
When a survey by the United States Army Engineer Corps showed a port in Yaquina Bay deeper than expected, interest in the development of the area was blaring. In April 1883, the beach front in Newport was covered by bulkheads and filled to form Front Street, the first street in Newport, effectively functioning as a long dock along the front of the bay. In 1885, the Oregon Pacific Railroad was built from the Willamette Valley to the City of Yaquina.
As soon as the train reaches Yaquina City, the ships in Yaquina Bay leave daily from there to Newport. It usually takes three and a half days to travel by steamboat from Portland to San Francisco, California. By taking the train from Portland to Yaquina City, and boarding a boat there, a traveler can save 40 hours on the way to San Francisco. Although there were four steamers on this route, one of them, Yaquina City , was destroyed at the South Pier in December 1887, and his successor, Yaquina Bay , was also damaged. in 1888 on his first trip to the port. These shipwrecks, and financial difficulties for trains, make the route unable to compete with Portland's better transport links. The steamboat service to San Francisco ended in the 1890s.
At least one ship was built in Oneatta, steam tower Augusta in 1888.
Ferry to south coast
The ferry has been operating from Newport to the southern shore of Yaquina Bay since 1866. They have been privately owned until 1890 when the City of Newport, and then Lincoln County began providing ferry subsidies. In 1913, one Zenas Copeland, owner of Mud Hen , received a contract to run the ferry route to the south coast. The ferry service continues to the opening of the Yaquina Bay Bridge.
The rise of the tourist business
Once the Oregon Pacific Railroad reaches Toledo, at the eastern end of Yaquina Bay, tourists start coming to the bay of the Willamette Valley. The roads were bad or none at the time, so the only way to a beach hotel in Newport was to cross Yaquina Bay by steamboat.
On 7 March 1896, the Volante <1> propeller vessel, built in Oneatta in 1892 for the Gulf of Yaquina service, was burned at its peg on the Newport coast. In 1908, Newport (81) tonne propeller vessels were built in Yaquina for Captain James Chatterton as a substitute for T.M. Richardson on the Yaquina-Newport run. Then, Jack Fogarty and Captain Oscar Jacobson bought Newport and ran away from Capt. Chatterson.
As it is now, summer is a high tourist season in Newport, and steamers and small craft at the bay play a major role. It is customary for everyone in Newport to come out for a daily boat landing from the City of Yaquina. On the landing, carts and dray people gather to transport passengers to the points in the Newport area. For example, in the summer of 1902, Salem Military Band came to Newport for a few weeks. Fun cruise ship held, with T.M. Richardson took the band and pulled the crowd on two barges. In the evening, the band played for the arrival of the Yaquina boat and also to entertain the crowds waiting for mail at the post office on Front Street. Eventually Newport organized a band of its own, in 1906 or so, performing similar functions. Eventually Newport was changed to a gasoline power station, and put into a towing dock for a barge that was not powered by the Elk and Julia .
End of service
Until the 1920s, no railroad or highway reached Newport, and the launch of steamers or gasoline did transport work to the railhead at Yaquina and other points in the bay and the Yaquina River. This changed rapidly when modern roads began to be built in the 1920s. The main coastal road, called "Roosevelt Highway," was completed to Newport in June 1927. The Riverine service to and from Yaquina City did not last much longer after that, ending in 1929, when the roads eventually connected Newport and Yaquina, route replaced by bus line.
List of ships
See also
- Steamship in Coastal Oregon
- List of topics related to Oregon
Note
Further reading
- Wright, E.W. Lewis & amp; Dryden Marine History of Pacific Northwest , at 375-76, Lewis and Dryden Printing Co. Portland, OR 1895 (online version of the classic maritime history encyclopedia in DjVu format)
External links
Photos from Salem Public Library
- Newport, Oregon, 1900s, showing crowds at the dock and Mosquito Fleets by the beach
- Newport main street, early 1900s, shows off the Newport Navigation Company office
- Newport, Oregon, circa 1915, looking west, showing Yaquina Bay and the beach, with some small boats on the dock
- Newport, Oregon waterfront, 1915
Photos from Oregon State University
- T.M. Richardson and passenger ships, before 1908
- Newport waterfront, circa 1910
- scow Wallusi washed ashore and abandoned near Newport, circa 1900
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