Hobsonville, Oregon
{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States}}
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}}Hobsonville is an unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. Although it is considered a ghost town, it is still classified as a populated place by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Hobsonville is on the east shore of Tillamook Bay, about 2 miles south of Garibaldi via U.S. Route 101 or about a mile from Garibaldi across Miami Cove.{{cite book |title= Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer |edition= 7th |year= 2008 |publisher= DeLorme |location= Yarmouth, Maine |isbn= 0-89933-347-8 |page= 20}}{{cite web |url= http://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/tillamook_bay/#.VDi1X1d0at8 |title= Tillamook Bay |publisher= The Oregon Encyclopedia |last= Albright |first= Gary |accessdate= October 11, 2014}}
History
The community was named after pioneer John Hobson, who was one of the founders of the local salmon cannery.{{Cite OGN|7th|page=471}} Hobsonville once had an economy based on lumber and the salmon cannery–the Tillamook Packing Company–which began operating in 1884.{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4i1grNoMcWgC |title= In Search of Western Oregon |author= Friedman, Ralph |authorlink= Ralph Friedman |year= 1990 |page= 31 |publisher= The Caxton Printers, Ltd |location= Caldwell, Idaho |isbn= 0-87004-332-3}}{{cite news |url= http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96061150/1884-08-15/ed-1/seq-3/ |title= Astoria and Vicinity |newspaper= The Daily Morning Astorian |location= Astoria, Oregon |date= August 15, 1884 |accessdate= October 11, 2014}} Hobsonville also had a hotel and a creamery, and was a stop on the Tillamook Bay and Pacific Railway and Navigation Co. Railroad. Hobsonville post office ran from 1883 to 1913. According to Oregon: End of the Trail, nearby Hobsonville Point that extends into Tillamook Bay was named Talapus Cradle by the local Native Americans because of its resemblance to a cradleboard.{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich |title= Oregon: End of the Trail |author= Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon |series= American Guide Series |year= 1940 |publisher= Binfords & Mort |location= Portland, Oregon |page= [https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich/page/370 370] |oclc= 4874569}}Talapus is Chinook Jargon for the trickster Coyote. The point was also once known as Driscoll Point.{{cite web |url= http://www.oldmill.us/html/history.html |title= Garibaldi and the Old Mill History |publisher= The Old Mill |accessdate= October 11, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141008030346/http://www.oldmill.us/html/history.html |archive-date= October 8, 2014 |url-status= dead }}
By 1930, Hobsonville was the home of several elderly Tillamook and Nehalem women, who talked with May Edel, an assistant to anthropologist Franz Boas.{{cite news |url= http://blog.oregonlive.com/northcoast/2008/10/cultural_geographer_to_relate.html |last= Neal |first= LeeAnn |title= Cultural geographer to relate Nehalem tales |newspaper= The Oregonian |date= October 8, 2008 |accessdate= October 11, 2014}} By 1940 the townsite was overgrown by alder trees but several buildings and the unoccupied hotel building remained. Shortly before 1940 the remains of the Smith lumber mill were washed into the bay.
See also
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20141011071048/http://www.tillamook.plinkit.org/eshelf-research/exhibits/historic-photos/tillamook-county-photos/hobsonville.jpg/view Historic image of Hobsonville] from Tillamook County Library
- [https://www.flickr.com/places/United+States/Oregon/Hobsonville Images of Hobsonville] from Flickr
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Tillamook County, Oregon