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The dated records

November 24, 1805 · The vote at Station Camp
December 8, 1805 · The Fort Clatsop site is chosen
January 1806 · Salt making at Seaside
March 23, 1806 · The Corps leaves Fort Clatsop
April 12, 1811 · Fort Astoria is founded
October 1813 · Pacific Fur Company sells out to the North West Company
October 6, 1818 · Fort George is surrendered back to the United States
1821 · Hudson's Bay Company takes over Fort George
1824 · John McLoughlin is assigned to Fort George as chief factor
1825 · Columbia headquarters leaves Fort George for Fort Vancouver
1830 · Fort George is reoccupied for the salmon trade
September 1834 · Wyeth's party, with Jason Lee, reaches the Columbia
April 10, 1836 · The steamship Beaver comes up the Columbia from its mouth
September 1846 · The USS Shark wrecks, and names a town
1847 · The first post office west of the Rockies
1849 · Astoria becomes the nation's port of entry
1852 · The first federal building west of the Rockies
1854 · Astoria wins the county seat
1861 · Astoria's customs service moves downtown
1863 · Fort Stevens is built at the river's mouth
August 1864 · Astoria journalism begins with the Marine Gazette
1865 · The Fort Stevens earthwork is completed
1869 · A new Astoria post office rises on the present post office site
July 1, 1873 · The Astorian is founded
1874 · Astoria's first salmon cannery opens
1874 · A stone customhouse and post office is built in central Astoria
May 1, 1876 · The Daily Astorian is launched
October 20, 1876 · Astoria is incorporated as a city
1878 · Samuel Elmore partners in an Astoria cannery
1881 · Tillamook Rock Lighthouse is lit
1883 · Suomi Hall
July 1883 · The first great fire
1885 · The Flavel House is built
1892 · Gearhart Golf Links opens
1894 · The first Astoria Regatta
1896 · The fishermen's strike
February 1899 · Warrenton becomes a city
October 25, 1906 · The Peter Iredale comes ashore
November 7, 1907 · Toveri is founded
1911 · Toveritar, a paper for working women
1913 · Oregon's first woman mayor
December 8, 1922 · The second great fire
July 22, 1926 · The Astoria Column is dedicated
May 1934 · The waterfront strike reaches Astoria
August 31, 1939 · Tongue Point Naval Air Station is dedicated
June 21, 1942 · Fort Stevens is shelled
1951 · Lightship Columbia takes her station at the river mouth
1955 · Local people build the Fort Clatsop replica
1958 · Fort Clatsop becomes a national memorial
October 12, 1962 · The Columbus Day Storm
March 27, 1964 · The 1964 tsunami reaches Seaside
July 29, 1966 · The bridge opens to traffic
August 27, 1966 · The bridge is dedicated
1971 · Fort Stevens Military Reservation is listed on the National Register
November 1978 · Seaside's Salt Works joins Fort Clatsop National Memorial
1979 · Lightship Columbia ends her service at the mouth
June 7, 1985 · The Goonies opens, and the town is in it
September 1990 · The prototype lifeboat comes to the bar
December 24, 1993 · The bridge tolls come off
October 3, 2005 · The Fort Clatsop replica burns
December 3, 2007 · The Great Coastal Gale
May 21, 2011 · The town turns two hundred
November 24, 2020 · The mink farm quarantine

People

Coboway · Clatsop chief.
Sacagawea · Guide and interpreter with the Corps of Discovery.
York · Enslaved by William Clark.
William Clark · Co-captain of the Corps of Discovery, who polled the whole party at Station Camp and wrote down every opinion, including York's and Sacagawea's.
John Jacob Astor · The New York merchant whose Pacific Fur Company founded Fort Astoria in 1811 and gave the town its name.
DeWitt Clinton Ireland · Sold the first issue of the Tri-Weekly Astorian on July 1, 1873, at 10th and Commercial.
Captain George Flavel · Columbia River bar pilot.
Clara Cynthia Munson · Elected mayor of Warrenton in 1913, 38 votes to 22, the first woman to win a mayor's office in Oregon.
Daniel Knight Warren · Warrenton's namesake.
Attilio Pusterla · The artist whose sgraffito spiral climbs the Astoria Column, telling the region's early history in pictures.
Mark Hatfield · Governor of Oregon.
Dan Evans · Governor of Washington.
Frank Woodfield · Astoria photographer.
Peter A. Huhtala · Astoria cannery worker.
Royal Nebeker · Artist and teacher.

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