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"Short History of the Little Nestucca River Valley and Its Early Pioneers" written about South Tillamook County, Oregon
The page below was written by Mrs. Hardy Rock (Alexandria LEY Rock) and published in 1949. NVMS students have retyped her history so that many may read it. Although some punctuation errors have been corrected the text remains as written by Mrs. Rock.
Note that Alexandria LEY Rock's "Short History of the Little Nestucca River Valley and Its Early Pioneers" has been republished in book form as of January 2007 and is now being offered for sale by the Tillamook County Historical Society!
(This page was typed by Dean Bones.)
Rose Dunn John Chitwood Wallace Yates Sarah Page Sarah Bozley Jerome Franklin Dan Fletcher J. B. Upton A. M. Commons Andy Page ? Grasshoff Ike Hiner Ed Faulconer A. M. Commons Andy Hess Earl Porter Joh, & Gilbert Rock Gertie Porter Redberg Lin Whiteman & ? |
1st school teacher 1st postmaster at Emma P.O. 1st postmaster at Meda 1st postmaster at Neskowin 1st boarding house keeper 1st preacher 1st repair shop (wagons and shod horses) 1st musical instrument (melodeon) 1st auto owner (Marion) 1st white man to find clams in Bay, 1886 1st mail carrier up Slab Creek 1st cheese maker 1st store keeper 1st Worthy Master of Grange 1st fox breeder 1st mink owner 1st silo owners 1st woman to vote in Little Nestucca precinct 1st freight boat owners on Little Nestucca River with "Gray Eagle" |
| James Craven Bessie Craven Jessie Ray |
1st
green house A close 2nd green house |
Several homes
have been totally destroyed by fire.
The house of Will and Dolly Ward on the Guy Ward farm
The house of Jesse Ward on the farm of Carl Commons
The house of the Joe Foster Farm
The house of T. A. Porter which was the original home of Jeff Shaw - It burned
down in the spring of 1908.
The house of Loys Carver, located up Slab Creek
The house of Hirman Vogel on the Marcellus Faulconer Farm, which was homesteaded
by Alex Ketterman) was totally destroyed in 1940.
The house of Joe Ducham located on the M. A. Bower homestead
The house of the Dan Fletcher place
The first house Steve Bauer built burned down.
The large Sanitarium on the hill at the Bay was erected on part of the Christensen
farm and was destroyed by fire of unknown origin three years after it was built,
about 1916 - 17.
A serious fire got a good start in the Oretown Cheese Factory in 1947 but was
extinguished with little loss by a bucket brigade.
Continue to page 29 of "Short History of the Little Nestucca River Valley and Its Early Pioneers!"