Editor’s Note: The recent devastating fire in the Columbia Gorge, I’ve been reminded of the Tillamook Burn, and how my parents and grandparents always talked about the devastation. My grandfather was a…
Category: Local History
Best of History: Famed Journalist, Writer Paul Pintarich Shared Memories of Rockaway’s Natatorium
By Don R. Best NOTE: Paul Pintarich was a good friend of Karla Steinhauser’s (of Karla’s Smokehouse), and I met Paul when he was visiting her in 2007 or early 2008. He…
Old Iron Show Takes Over Blue Heron Cheese Fields August 18-20; Part of Step Back in Time Event
By Louise Bogard, member of the NW Old Iron Club Do you know anything about the Old Iron Show? If not, put Aug 18-20 on your calendar and come to the Blue…
Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita Listed in National Register of Historic Places
Built in 1933, the Pine Grove Community House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for the building’s association with the founding of the City of Manzanita…
BEST OF HISTORY: The Origin of the Garibaldi “G”
By W. P. White (provided by Don R. Best) In 1929 a small group of Garibaldi High School juniors traveled to Corvallis, Oregon Principal J. E. O’Neel’s 1927 Hudson sedan to Oregon…
World War II Oregon WAVE Peggy Lutz Visits Tillamook Air Museum for Book Signing July 29
By Laura Swanson, Editor, Tillamook County Pioneer At 95 years young, Peggy Lutz is an inspiring figure who served as a Control Tower Operator at both Naval Air Station Klamath Falls and…
Hashtag #savetheboathouse surfaces to save Pier’s End in Garibaldi
By Sayde Moser-Walker What do you do with an 80-year-old Coast Guard Lifeboat Station? The possibilities are endless. At least that’s how Kristen Penner and the Garibaldi Cultural Heritage Initiative feel. The…
“BEST of History”: In the beginning … of the settlement of Tillamook County
EDITOR’S NOTE: As a true Tillamook County Pioneer, and local historian, we are pleased to have Don R. Best provide regular stories about the “Best” of History from throughout Tillamook County. Don…
Rockaway Beach Visitor Center Historic Caboose Gets Grant-funded Remodeled
Pictured: Michele Bradley and Pami Boomer, POTB, Meghan Burdick, Visit Tillamook Coast, Emma Poulsen, Kristine Hayes, Jeremy Horton, Maureen Taylor, Anne McBride PHOTO BY DON BEST On Friday June 23rd at 4…
Pioneering Mothers – Catherine Fennessy Fitzpatrick
We introduced Catherine Fennessy Fitzpatrick (born 1832 in Ireland – death in 1916) in Tillamook as the new face of the Pioneer, and as a symbol of the new partnership for the Pioneer. On Mother’s…
