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Haystack Rock as seen from road above Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Day overcast and drizzle.
Image taken June 28, 2010.
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Cannon Beach ...
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Cannon Beach is an eight-mile-long beach and also a small Oregon community south of Seaside, Tillamook Head, and Ecola State Park. At 235 feet high, Haystack Rock is one of the prominent features visible from the beach. Ecola Creek, named by Captain Clark in 1806, flows into the Pacific Ocean at the north end of Cannon Beach. The community of Cannon Beach has been known by various names, including Elk Creek and Ecola, but acquired the name "Cannon Beach" in 1922 to agree with the beach.
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The "cannon" in Cannon Beach ...
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From "Oregon Geographic Names" (2003, McArthur and McArthur):
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Lt. Neil M. Howison, U.S. Navy, arrived in the Columbia River July 1, 1846, in the schooner Shark for the purpose of making an investigation of part of the Oregon Country for the government. The Shark was wrecked on attempting to leave the Columbia River on September 10, 1846, and part of her deck and a small iron cannon drifted ashore south of Tillamook Head, thus giving the name to Cannon Beach.
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From the Cannon Beach History Center website (2010):
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"... In October 1846, Lieutenant Howison recieved information through the Tillamook people that part of the ship's hull "with guns upon it" had come ashore south of Tillamook Head. The lieutenant sent Midshipman Simes to visit the location. Simes reported finding the wreckage and succeeded in "getting one cannon above the high-water mark" while two others were left buried. Then in December 1863, mail carrier John Hobson reported seeing a cannon at present-day Arch Cape Creek. Soon after, this cannon became lost when tides buried it in sand. In June 1894, however, it was spotted once again - this time by mail carrier George Luce. With the help of his Nehalem neighbors John and Mary Gerritse and their team of horses, Luce succeeded in pulling the cannon out of the sand, after which time it stood in front of the Austin House Post Office in Arch Cape for several years.
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The "cannon of Cannon Beach" today resides at the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum.
Interestingly, in February 2008 two cannons were uncovered on the beaches of Arch Cape during an extremely low tide. They are currently being studied to see if they are from the Shark.
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Views ...
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Cannon Beach looking north, towards Haystack Rock.
View from Tolovana Beach State Park.
Image taken July 14, 2010.
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Cannon Beach, at Tolovana Beach State Park.
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Cannon Beach, heading towards Haystack Rock.
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Haystack Rock and Cannon Beach, Oregon.
The Needles are to the left of Haystack Rock.
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Image taken June 28, 2010.
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Cannon Beach, The Needles, and Haystack Rock.
Image taken July 14, 2010.
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The Needles, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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- Ecola Creek ...
- Haystack Rock ...
- Tillamook Head ...
- Tufted Puffins ...
- World War II ...
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Ecola Creek ...
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The mouth of Ecola Creek enters the Pacific Ocean at the north edge of the Oregon community of Cannon Beach and its picturesque Haystack Rock. The Ecola Creek watershed drains approximately 22 square miles, with the entire basin lying within six miles of the Pacific. Maximum elevation is 3,075 feet. North of Ecola Creek lies Ecola State Park.
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Ecola Creek entering the Pacific Ocean, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Image taken July 14, 2010.
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Haystack Rock ...
Haystack Rock is a large 235-feet-high basalt sea stack located at Cannon Beach, Oregon. It is protected as a sanctuary for birds and marine creatures. Tufted Puffins, Pigeon Guillemots, Pelagic Cormorants, and Western Gulls nest on the rock.
Captain Clark looked upon Haystack Rock from Tillamook Head in January 1806, but did not single it out.
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Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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Tillamook Head ...
To the north of Cannon Beach is Tillamook Head, a large headland jutting into the Pacific Ocean, and further up the coast is Seaside, the location of Lewis and Clark's "Salt Works".
Lewis and Clark called Tillamook Head "Clark's Point of View".
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Tufted Puffins ...
"Tufted Puffins"
Georgia Gerber, Clinton, WA.
Cast Bronze
"Every spring a colony of Tufted Puffins journeys back to Haystack Rock from their long winter at sea. On a low-tide misty morning I became enamored by these charming and somewhat clownish seabirds. Since their return to land is to mate and hatch their young, I portray them as a pair."
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Tufted Puffins, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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Tufted Puffins, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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Tufted Puffins, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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World War II ...
"Terence O’Donnell writes in “Cannon Beach: A Place By the Sea” that guards were placed at the Arch Cape tunnel, a blackout was enforced and headlights wired down. Volunteers created a “civilian club” to take care of roadways. Rationing was enforced, and residents prepared “grub boxes” in case they needed to flee into the woods for protection. A civilian defense group called the Guerrillas kept lookouts from the top of Neacomie Mountain, along with the Tillamook Rangers who patrolled the beaches with shotguns and .22s. The Army and then the Coast Guard took over the Cannon Beach Hotel and the Warren Hotel, and for the duration of the war, the Coast Guard patrolled the beach on foot and horseback. O’Donnell writes that they were supplemented by aircraft spotters, Cannon Beach women who were installed in huts along the beach and provided with silhouettes of enemy aircraft."
Source:
Editor, "Daily Astorian, Cannon Beach Gazette", May 22, 2015.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, January 8, 1806 ...
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