Lone Tree II Traditional Cache
Ice and Wind: The cache owner has not responded, or corrected the problems with this cache, so I must regretfully archive the listing.
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My sons went with me to hide this Cache. The youngest is ten and he had no problem at all. Depending on where you choose to park, your walk could be as little as .25 of a mile round trip.
When Captain Robert Gray, sailing the American ship Columbia, found the Harbor entrance and anchored in the bay now known as Grays Harbor on May 7, 1792. A “Lone Tree” spruce, located near the tip of the peninsula, was the landmark for him and other ships for more than a century.
Matthew McGee was the original homesteader, near the “Lone Tree” in the 1860’s. A. O. Damon acquired the southern tip from McGee and settled here in 1878. A pier was built nearby and another later on the bay side of Oyehut Road. Supplies and mail came across by boat from Hoquiam, then on land to Taholah and Quinault areas.
The Minard family took over the peninsula in 1929 and bought other parcels of land on which they operated a cattle ranch.
In January, 1960, a group of investors with a dream of developing Washington’s premier resort community, purchased what is now Ocean Shores from the Minards for $1,000,000.
The first sales office was in a trailer, parked on the sand dunes. Pacific Northwest Bell construction crews extended a 45,000 foot cable from Copalis switching center to Ocean Shores, providing service for 37 customers. Lots sold for as little as $595. Sales were good; people stood in line outside the trailer to buy lots. Prices steadily increased. Lots were sold from the first plat maps “sight unseen” by the enthusiasm generated by word of mouth advertising. Customers were driven along the beach and told, “You’ve bought a lot somewhere in there.” Property lots were staked and numbered as soon as the road workers and graders were able to do so.
A fully incorporated city since 1970, Ocean Shores is now established as a major destination resort in the Northwest.
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