Cohassett Grays Harbor County, Washington

Name: Cohassett
Address: Washington

Mapped Location

Cohassett: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

Information

General information on Cohassett

Feature Type: Place

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Cohassett

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name	Description
Cohassett	Official

Origin Notes and History of Cohassett

References to Cohassett that document the origin of its place name

COHASSETT, a town in Grays Harbor County. It was named about 1892 by John Wooding, a banker of Aberdeen, Washington, in memory of a pleasant visit he had paid to the summer resort of Cohassett, Massachusetts. (Postmaster, in Names MSS., Letter 461.) The officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company have undertaken to change the name of Ashby in Kittitas County to Cohassett, after the same eastern city. It is not likely that the postoffice authorities will approve two such names in the same state.

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 51 | Origin of Washington Geographic Names

A Selected Bibliography of Cohassett, Grays Harbor County, Washington

A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.

Cohassett Beach chronicles World War II in the Pacific Northwest by Kathy Hogan, Klancy Clark De Nevers, Lucy Hart

In 1940, the Grays Harbor Post in Aberdeen, Washington, introduced its readers to "The Kitchen Critic," a new column chronicling life in nearby Cohassett Beach. Within a year the U.S. was at war, and columnist Kathy Hogan's weekly dispatches turned to soldiers, rationing, and the barbed wire that lined the sand dunes around her weathered cottage. 50 years later, Kathy Hogan's writings provide a window onto how one Pacific Northwest community responded to World War II. Cohassett Beach Chronicles, a collection of Hogan's columns from the war years, offers a remarkable social history of the war at home. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought U.S. troops to Cohassett Beach and to towns up and down the West Coast. With wit and perception, Hogan writes of civilians valiantly coping with this friendly occupation and wartime scarcity. Her neighbors — loggers, commercial fishermen, Finnish cranberry farmers — learn to live with blackouts, blimps, and a ban on beachcombing. Hogan's weekly descriptions of life on the home front capture America's wartime mood. Together, her columns document the war's tremendous impact at home, from the internment of Japanese Americans and the spread of government regulations to the changing role of women. They also reveal that in spite of the war effort life, in many ways, continued as it always had. There was still time to pick blackberries, gossip at the local tavern, and attend the occasional Friday night dance. As children, the editors spent summers in the Cohassett Beach cottages that still, in the late 1940s, bore scars of the Army's occupation.

xxx, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Desiderata

· 1st Edition · Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Or., 1995
Related Catalog Items: Cohassett · City of Aberdeen · Grays Harbor County · Cohassett Beach · Cohassett Lake

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Last updated: 2017-02-12