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Nahcotta is an
Nahcotta was first settled in 1890 by J.A. Morehead and named for Nahcati, the chief of a local Chinook tribe. Nahcotta was once the northern terminal of the
Passenger train departing from Nahcotta dock, 1910Razor clam cannery, 1916
*[http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/indocc&CISOPTR=36&CISORESTMP=/site-templates/search_results-sub.html&CISOVIEWTMP=/site-templates/item_viewer.html&CISOMODE=thumb&CISOGRID=thumbnail,A,1;title,A,1;subjec,A,0;descri,200,0;0,A,0;10&CISOBIB=title,A,1,N;subjec,A,0,N;descri,K,0,N;0,A,0,N;0,A,0,N;10&CISOTHUMB=3,5&CISOTITLE=10 Oystering in Willapa Bay circa 1940] Unincorporated communities in Pacific County, Washington Ilwaco Railway stations {{PacificCountyWA-geo-stub
Nahcotta is an unincorporated community
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in Pacific County
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, in the American state of Washington
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. It is located on Willapa Bay
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, on the eastern coast of the Long Beach Peninsula
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, within the Ocean Park CDP.
History
Nahcotta was first settled in 1890 by J.A. Morehead and named for Nahcati, the chief of a local Chinook tribe. Nahcotta was once the northern terminal of the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company
The Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company operated a Narrow gauge railways, narrow gauge railroad that ran for over forty years from the Columbia Bar, bar of the Columbia River up the Long Beach Peninsula to Nahcotta, Washington, on Willapa Bay ...
, a narrow gauge railroad which ran from Ilwaco
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, and later from Megler, in southwestern Pacific County, up the Long Beach Peninsula
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to Nahcotta and back, once a day. The railroad was in operation from 1889 to 1930.
The community had a small contract post office
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that opened in 1889 and was maintained by a pair of local residents out of a small building. The post office was closed on February 27, 2021, after a request from the operators for additional funds was denied by the United States Postal Service
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.
See also
*Steamboats of Willapa Bay Willapa Bay is a large shallow body of water near the Pacific Ocean in southwestern Washington. For a number of years before modern roads were built in Pacific County, Washington, the bay was used as the means of travel around the county, by powere ...
References
Further reading
*Greene, Trecia R.; ''Portrait of Peninsula Woman''; Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, Inc., 2006. Portraits of Nahcotta women published in the Long Beach Peninsula's ''Chinook Observer'' between September 2001 and June 2005.External links
Passenger train departing from Nahcotta dock, 1910
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