One unique story out here is the story of Bayocean . The tiny strip or "spit" of land between the Pacific Ocean and Tillamook Bay. This little area sparked some investors' interests in the early 1900s and long story short-ish, (because click that link for deets), they built up this whole resort town with a hotel, fancy pool, bowling alley, tennis courts, dance hall... a full set up for such a tiny town. It sounded like a blast for the wealthy to come vacation here (with quite the excursion to make it here at that time with lack of roads, trains, boat troubles). The one name to share is F.D. Mitchell, the guy that put all his heart and soul (and investments) into this resort, only to have it totally destroyed by nature. The homes, hotels, store... everything is totally gone now. And it looks like this! The unfortunate thing is this F.D. needed a north and south jetty put in to protect the spit from the water coming out from the bar into the ocean and make boat passage e
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