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The Kern Valley Museum

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The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
The Kern Valley Museum
Phone:
+1 760-376-6683

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


The history of steamboats on the Oregon Coast begins in the late 19th century. Before the development of modern road and rail networks, transportation on the coast of Oregon was largely water-borne. This article focuses on inland steamboats and similar craft operating in, from south to north on the coast: Rogue River, Coquille River, Coos Bay, Umpqua River, Siuslaw Bay, Yaquina Bay, Siletz River, and Tillamook Bay. The boats were all very small, nothing like the big sternwheelers and propeller boats that ran on the Columbia River or Puget Sound. There were many of them, however, and they came to be known as the mosquito fleet.
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