CANNON BEACH
History Center & Museum
where history comes to life!
- 2010 Cottage Tour Tickets now on sale! Purchase here.
- 2010 Membership Drive HAPPENING NOW! Join today online, or come by the Center and fill out your membership form and pick up your free gift(s).
HOURS OF OPERATION: Wednesday through Monday; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Remember watching family home-movies on your first TV set, or bonfire hotdogs covered in sand? At the History Center, we'll help you step back to the past.
...Step into a Native-American longhouse and imagine the furnishings and garments you'd create from cedar, shells, and stones.
... Imagine an encounter with the Pacific's most treacherous shoreline from a Spanish or English explorers' ship.
... Imagine the soreness of your seat back when travel to Cannon Beach from Portland included steamboat, train, and stagecoach rides and took an entire day.
... Relive the anxiety of World War II, when residents of Cannon Beach were "blacked out" for fear of invasion, and soldiers patrolling the beach enforced a strict curfew.
... Relive the tension of 1964, when a tsunami hit Cannon Beach, or of 1967, when "Beach Bill" legislation secured Oregon's beaches for public use—but only after a fight!
Whether the story of Cannon Beach calls to mind memories from your life or reminds you of how Grandma lived, it will surely connect you to the past.
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