The Coos County Logging Museum is
museum
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in located in
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States. The museum's focus is the historical forest products industry, particularly
logging specific to the local area of
Coos County which is situated among vast forest preserves. The museum, a
non-profit
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educational institution, is staffed entirely by volunteers, many of whom hail from the logging camps themselves.
The museum building is a shingled
dome modeled after the
Mormon Tabernacle in
Salt Lake City
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,
Utah
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.
[.] The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1979.
[.]
See also
*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Coos County, Oregon
References
External links
Coos County Logging Museum- City of Myrtle Point
*
Museums in Coos County, Oregon
Forestry museums in the United States
Industry museums in Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Coos County, Oregon
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