Cohassett Lake Feature
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Cohassett Lake: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
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General information on Cohassett Lake
- Feature Type: Feature
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Cohassett Lake
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Cohassett Lake | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Cohassett Lake
References to Cohassett Lake 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.
A Selected Bibliography of Cohassett Lake, Feature
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
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Last updated: 2017-02-12