Port of Astoria History


1910	The Port of Astoria was established.
1911	Ordinance 1 passed, providing for a harbormaster for the Port of Astoria; defining his duties and providing compensation.
1912	Ordinance 4 passed, prohibiting all unnecessary whistling by vessels within the waters of the Port of Astoria.
1914	Ordinance 12 passed: (read more) "it is necessary that the Port of Astoria acquire by purchase or appropriation a tract of water frontage on the Columbia River for the constructing, maintaining, and operating thereon public wharves and warehouses, and to improve the Columbia River, the entrance thereto, and the harbor thereof."
	Bonds amounting to $400,000 are printed, to be used to acquire waterfront as ordained in Ordinance 12.
	Opening bids for the construction of the Municipal docks.
1918	Authorization to install an "intercommunicating private telephone system" at the Port Dock.
	Purchase of a "high-class recording barometer" approved.
	Ordinance passed: (read more) "the Port of Astoria is granted the right, privilege and franchise of constructing, operating and maintaining a standard gauge, Belt Line Railroad."
1919	Commissioners recommend further investigation into the purchase of the Tongue Point Naval Base site.
1920	Letter received announcing formation of the Astoria Stevedoring Company.
1921	Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. set up long-distance phone service to Astoria (read more) with lines "to be considered, and to be used, for telephone communication, and for connections with Portland and Seattle, and other sections of the Northwest."
	Portland Chamber of Commerce asks for the Port's assistance in securing the allocations of passenger steamers for the Columbia River.
1928	The Clatsop County Fair Board request and are granted permission to hold the annual county fair in Sections I, II and III of Pier Three.
1929	Hoof and mouth disease is found in Los Angeles; the Port takes precautions to prevent the spread of the disease from ships that originated there.

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