Dike going to Bayocean, Oregon, in Tillamook County, 1960
COLLECTION
Ben Maxwell
DESCRIPTION
This is the dike going to Bayocean in Tillamook County as seen on August 4, 1960. The beach was covered with driftwood. On the peninsula that extends northward from the southern lip of Tillamook Bay, beginning in 1907 the T.B. Potter Co. developed the resort town of Bayocean, fronting the Pacific. In 1928 a road finally was opened. But disintegration of resort developments had already begun, with winter storms pounding against the peninsula's seaward side. Gradually, as the land was eaten away, only residents clung to their houses until these were endangered or began to crumble. By 1948 Bayocean, queen of the Oregon resorts, had taken a ghostly departure.
Ben Maxwell Collection
