City of Bandon Coos County, Oregon
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General information on City of Bandon
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Bandon
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Bandon | Official |
| Bandon | Official |
A Selected Bibliography of City of Bandon, Coos County, Oregon
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Bandon tales stories of country life by Granny Abbott
Authored by longtime southern Oregon resident Granny Abbott, Bandon Tales: Stories of Country Life offers a charming, homespun collection of reminiscences documenting early homesteading, farming, and coastal community life near Bandon during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book captures the unvarnished realities of rural survival, neighborly mutual aid, and domestic routines against the backdrop of raw wilderness and sweeping Pacific shores. Through affectionate and straightforward prose, the text preserves the colloquial voice and everyday folklore of pioneers who carved out an existence on a windswept frontier. A keen insight drawn from the work is how domestic humor and storytelling served as vital psychological currency for frontier women; by framing crushing physical hardships through the lens of wry local comedy, homesteaders built emotional resilience and forged unbreakable social ties that kept isolation at bay.
111 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
The night Bandon burned by Curt Beckham
This small booklet details the disastrous fire that destroyed Bandon, Oregon on September 26, 1936. Includes several black and white photographs of the town before and after the fire.
45 pages : photographs ; 22 cm
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
The life of a cranberry grower by Ethel Kranick Reichenbach
Ethel Kranick Reichenbach’s memoir, The life of a cranberry grower, documents the twentieth-century agricultural development and family-scale enterprise that established Bandon, Oregon, as the cranberry capital of the southern Oregon coast. The narrative traces the physical engineering of the coastal terrace—specifically the diking, ditching, and sanding of acidic peat bogs—which superimposed intensive commercial berry agriculture directly onto the wetland ecosystems, estuaries, and seasonal gathering grounds stewarded by the Coquille and Miluk Coos peoples. Reichenbach details the exacting logistics of coastal wetland farming, illuminating how isolated growers managed frost mitigation, intricate water-fluming systems, and labor-intensive seasonal harvesting while building cooperative marketing networks to access distant urban distribution channels. Ultimately, the work illustrates how specialized hydrological manipulation and community resourcefulness transformed an ecologically delicate coastal dune landscape into an enduring commercial monoculture on the Pacific slope.
70 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
Coos County
- Allegany
- Arago
- Bancroft
- City of Bandon
- Barview
- Bay Park
- Bridge
- Broadbent
- Bullards
- Bunker Hill
- Cedar Point
- Charleston
- Coaledo
- City of Coos Bay
- Coos City (historical)
- Coos River
- Cooston
- City of Coquille
- Cranberry Corners
- Crown Point
- Dellwood
- Delmar
- Dew Valley
- Dora
- Englewood
- Estabrook
- Etelka (historical)
- Fairview
- Fourmile
- Gaylord
- Glasgow
- Gravelford
- Green Acres
- Hauser
- Kings Landing (historical)
- City of Lakeside
- Lampa (historical)
- Laurel Grove
- Lee (historical)
- Leneve
- Libby
- McKinley
- Millington
- City of Myrtle Point
- City of North Bend
- Norway
- Parkersburg
- City of Powers
- Prosper
- Randolph
- Remote
- Riverton
- Saunders Lake
- Shorewood
- Sitkum
- Sumner
- Templeton
- Tenmile
- Winterville
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Last updated: 2017-01-15