A history of Yachats,
since 1967
Postcards, papers and photographs of Yachats from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Archeological studies have shown that the Yachats area has been inhabited for at least 1,500 years. Remains of a pit-house in Yachats have been radiocarbon dated at approximately AD 570 . Yachats is built on seashell middens and numerous graves left by its past inhabitants. Excavations for construction of buildings and U.S. Route 101 uncovered a great many skeletons and artifacts. Most of these became part of the fill dirt forming the base of the current highway and city.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Yachats’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
4 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFMIB 34785 Kitchen Midden, or Ban…, 1923: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Yachats
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Yachats, decade by decade
1960s
1990s
1 historic place in Yachats
1 place in Yachats 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 FMIB 34785 Kitchen Midden, or Bank of Shells, North of Yachats, Oreg (1923) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2), the Library of Congress (3) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.