Oysterville Daybook Archives

Visiting Oysterville 1915

Jan 20, 2012

Oysterville circa 1910 For the book I’m currently working on, I’ve been trying to reconstruct Oysterville of 1915 – not the physical layout so much, but the people who lived here. Who were the neighbors? Where had they come from? What did...

Power to the People!

Oct 13, 2011

On The Cutting Edge Oysterville was not on the grid, electricity-wise, until 1938 – seventeen long, dark years after the rest of the peninsula had power. By November 1921, the privately owned Ilwaco Light & Power Company had a 100 KW power...