City of Port Orford Curry County, Oregon
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General information on City of Port Orford
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Port Orford
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Port Orford | Official |
| Port Orford | Official |
Related Catalog Titles
A Bibliography for City of Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon
Port Orford, a history by Patrick Masterson
Published by local historian Patrick Masterson, Port Orford, A History chronicles the dramatic evolution of Oregon's oldest continuously settled town, perched precariously on a storm-lashed headland above the Pacific. The book traces the area's rich timeline from its 1851 founding amidst a brief gold rush and subsequent conflicts with local Native tribes, through its decades as a rugged timber and commercial fishing hub. Drawing on historical documents and archival photographs, the text captures the fierce independence required to inhabit a remote coastal enclave characterized by treacherous waters and geographic isolation. A keen insight drawn from the work is how Port Orford's unusual open-water port—where boats must be hoisted in and out of the sea by giant land-based cranes—serves as a physical metaphor for the town's entire existence; it illustrates that surviving on the edge of the wilderness demands a permanent, ingenious defiance against standard modern infrastructure.
ii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
CIRC [ 1 ]
Battle Rock the hero's story : a true account, Oregon coast Indian attack : an Oregon documentary by Bert Webber, Margie Webber, J. M. Kirkpatrick
Published by maritime historians Bert Webber, Margie Webber, and J.M. Kirkpatrick, Battle Rock: The Hero's Story chronicles the harrowing 1851 clash between a small party of American gold-seekers led by Captain William Tichenor and the local Quat-a-qtie (Tututni) people on the southern Oregon coast. The book details the group's desperate defense atop a rocky sea stack in present-day Port Orford after an initial exploratory landing provoked fierce Indigenous resistance to protect their ancestral territory. Drawing on historical documents, pioneer journals, and local accounts, the text preserves a violent and foundational episode of frontier expansion. A keen insight drawn from the work is how regional historical documentation often elevates colonial survival narratives while obscuring the broader geopolitical trauma; by framing the skirmish through the heroic lens of isolated pioneers under siege, the account masks the reality that the true assault was an unprovoked imperial intrusion onto sovereign Indigenous land.
75 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
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Curry County
- Agness
- Bagnell Ferry
- City of Brookings
- Carpenterville
- Denmark
- Eckley (historical)
- City of Gold Beach
- Harbor
- Hunter Creek
- Illahe
- Jerrys Flat (historical)
- Knoxville (historical)
- Lakeport (historical)
- Langlois
- Marial
- Nesika Beach
- Ophir
- Pistol River
- Plum Trees
- City of Port Orford
- Sixes
- Wedderburn
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Last updated: 2025-09-23