On the centennial of the Columbia River Bar Pilots’ founding, the Dec. 21, 1947 issues of the Sunday Oregonian and the Oregon Daily Journal ran celebratory features about the piloting history.
The Columbia River Bar Pilots organization was officially chartered in 1846 in Astoria, Oregon, 12 miles upriver, where today Victorian houses still crowd the steep hills to the waterfront and the ...
In December of 1994, the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association welcomed its first woman Bar pilot. Capt. Deborah Dempsey was “one of a dozen or so women in the United States with the highest mariner’s ...
Just as the 1849 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill brought hordes of fortune-seeking immigrants to the hillside streams of what would become California, so did the natural wealth of the Oregon ...
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