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August 24, 1933: The Firestorm That Surrounded Elsie

August 21, 2026 by benjamin

If you drive Highway 26 westward from Portland as it descends toward the Oregon Coast, you pass through the quiet, timber-cloaked basin of the Nehalem Valley. Today, the community of Elsie is familiar to travelers mainly as a roadside waypoint marked by Camp 18 and a towering canopy of second-growth Douglas fir. In late August … Read more

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