Brookings’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Brookings. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1906, the Brookings Timber Company hired William James Ward, a graduate in civil engineering and forestry, to come to the southern Oregon Coast and survey its lumbering potential. After timber cruising the Chetco and Pistol River areas for several years, he concluded that conditions were favorable for extensive lumbering operations and advised the Brookings Timber Company accordingly to acquire a suitable townsite to accommodate both a mill and a shipping center.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Brookings’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brookings’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewThe rocky Oregon coast, 1980: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Brookings, decade by decade
1990s
1 historic place in Brookings
1 place in Brookings is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as The rocky Oregon coast (1980) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.