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41 stories matching willapa
- A Ship's Name-Board Washes Ashore 115 Miles From Where the Ivanhoe Went Down
A lighthouse keeper's wife finds the port quarter name-board of a lost coal freighter buried in the sand at Willapa Bay — and a Navy inspector uses the currents to argue the ship foundered far south of Cape Flattery.
- Loaded to the Rails: Seattle Sends Its First Alaska Steamer
Crowds packed Schwabacher’s wharf as the Willapa left for the north with 79 passengers, horses, sleds and more freight than it could carry.
- The Oyster Trust Comes for Willapa Bay
Oystermen in South Bend fight a Senate amendment that would let a San Francisco corporation keep its grip on Willapa Bay's oyster beds.
- Washington Wins Its Tide Lands—and Willapa Oystermen May Finally Get Title
A federal ruling clears the way for state ownership of tide lands, threatening South Bend's mill wharf while offering squatters on Willapa Harbor a path to legal claim.
- The Half Moon Bridge Collapse: A Family's Carriage Plunges into the Willapa River
A routine crossing turned to disaster when the Half Moon bridge near Lebam gave way, injuring six people and killing a horse.
- A Cook's Last Night in Tacoma
Injured, stranded ashore and facing the loss of his berth, a steamboat cook spends his final hours quarreling with his wife before swallowing morphine in a boarding-house room.
- The Railroad Promises a New Line to Willapa Harbor
A Northern Pacific official says the Chehalis-to-South Bend line will be finished by July 1, opening timber and farm country to the coast.
- A Vote of No Confidence in Willapa Valley
Frustrated taxpayers in Pacific County take a stand against their own local government, demanding the resignation of the county commissioners.
- South Bend’s Mill Burns While the Hose Company Stays Home
The Willapa Cedar Lumber Company’s mill and dry house burn to the ground; a kerosene-soaked fireball and a short hose supply leave the town reeling.
- A Desperate Three-Hour Struggle in Willapa Bay
A mother fighting the tides and the wind after her sailboat capsized managed to save both her young children before rescue arrived.
- The Hidden Trade in Willapa Harbor
While boosters brag about new ports, illicit opium and seal poaching thrive just down the coast.
- A Deadly Christmas Eve Dispute in Willapa
A drunken argument over railroad work ended in a shooting at a gravel pit, leaving a respected foreman dead and his killer in jail.
- The Alaska Steamship Price War
Seattle's shipping giants slash fares to the North, vowing to drive competitors out of business.
- The Willapa Prepares for the North
A new steamship line launches its pioneer vessel to capture the growing trade between Puget Sound and Alaska.
- The Tax Revolt in Willapa Harbor
Citizens in Pacific County gather to protest unequal and unfair property assessments that favored railroad interests.
- A Deadly Dispute at the Willapa Mill
A labor quarrel over an axe and a job assignment in Pacific County ends in a fatal stabbing.
- A South Bend Mill Assigned Itself to Creditors, Then Burned to the Ground That Night
The Willapa Cedar Lumber Company signed its assets over to creditors at 4:55 p.m. By 11 that nightthe shingle mill and dry house were in flames, five car loads of shingles lost and $12,000 gone up in smoke.
- The westernmost town in America bets its future on a telegraph wire
Ocosta-by-the-Sea, on Grays Harbor, is wired to the world and promoters promise a seaside metropolis — cottages, plank roads, a clam bake and a coming railroad.
- A Ship's Nameboard Comes Home, Four Years After the Ivanhoe Sailed Away
Washed up on a sand spit at Willapa Bay, the gilt scoured off by the surf, the lost ship's sign joins a life buoy as the only things that ever came back from the Ivanhoe.
- The Mystery of the Non-Propagating Oysters
The federal government sends an expert to solve why Eastern oysters refuse to reproduce in the waters of Willapa Bay.
- The Wild West of Willapa Bay
Tensions boil over as armed citizens and rival officials fight a desperate 'seat war' to determine the county capital.
- A Chaotic Day on the Seattle Waterfront
Multiple steamship collisions, a warehouse fire, and a capsized picnic boat turned the Seattle harbor into a disaster zone on a single August day.
- The Tide Lands Plat: A Waterfront Laid Out for Sale
State appraisers file the plat for the Tacoma tide lands, opening 600 acres of shore and mud flats to sale—unless upland owners claim them first.
- Lost for Days in the Grays Harbor Wilderness
An elderly hunter is rescued in a state of delirium after disappearing in the rain-soaked timberlands north of Riverside.
- Mill Owners Battle State Over Waterfront Rights
A major lumber company files an injunction to stop the State Harbor Line Commission from seizing mill property and wharves under new, secret harbor mapping.
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- The Panther of Willapa
A bold mountain lion terrorizes a logging site until a local man takes action.
- Tragedy in Willapa Bay
A sailor vanishes into the wake of a schooner as the industry of the sea demands a heavy price.