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Puget Island and Coffee Pot Island.
Puget Island (middleground) and Coffee Pot Island (foreground), looking upstream from Bradley State Wayside, Oregon.
Image taken November 20, 2004.
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Coffee Pot Island ...
Coffee Pot Island, Washington, lies at Columbia River between River Mile (RM) 41 and 42, on the south side of Puget Island, across from Wauna, Oregon.
According to information on the "Rootsweb.com" Website (2005) Coffee Pot Island was named in the late 1800s by local fishermen who would stop, make small fires, and brew up cups of coffee.
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"... Here was a little sandy island where the fishermen would land during the
night to make their coffee over little fires. They had no facilities for
coffee-making on their boats, as now. So they landed, and already a lot of
little fires were going with pots of coffee boiling. ..."
Other names used for Coffee Pot Island were "Coffee Can Island" and "Sand Island".
The 1948 NOAA Navigation Chart #6152, "Harrington Point to Crims Island" has the island unnamed. The 1968 chart calls the island "Sand I.", as does the 1979 chart. The 1982 chart has "Coffee Pot I.".
In 1980 the U.S. Board of Geographic Names made "Coffee Pot Island" official. See Puget Island for more Early History.
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View upstream from Bradley State Wayside, Oregon.
Puget Island and Coffee Pot Island, can be seen from Bradley State Wayside.
Image taken April 19, 2005.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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