Jarvis Landing (Oregon)
Jarvis Landing was a landing place on the north side of the entrance to Coos Bay in Oregon, United States.
Description[edit]
Jarvis Landing was on the east side of the north spit at the entrance to Coos Bay.[1]
Jarvis Landing was named after Fred Jarvis, who in the 1880s took over the stage line running along the beach from Coos Bay north to the mouth of the Umpqua River.[2] Jarvis established what is known as the Jarvis Landing Beach Road on the spit.[2]
Travelers who arrived at Jarvis Landing from the beach stage could proceed by water transport, rowboats and first, to Empire City or later, by steamboat or gasoline launch, to North Bend or Marshfield.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ U.S. Lighthouse Board, Annual Report, (1891) page 168.
- ^ a b U.S. Dept of the Interior, Umpqua Field Office, Final North Spit Plan — An Update to the Coos Bay Shorelands Plan of 1895 (December 2006), at page 50.
- ^ "Had Bad Trip to Coos Bay -- Drain Stage Delayed Yesterday", Coos Bay Times, February 25, 1914, page 6, col. 4.