About Us
The Tillamook County Historical Society was founded in 1984 to bring together those persons interested in preserving the history of Tillamook County. TCHS is exploring new ways to reach out to people for 2023. We are tentatively planning three main special meetings to be held on Saturdays, with business meetings every other month. Keep checking on Facebook for updates.
We are a separate organization from the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum and Tillamook Pioneer Association, concentrating on doing a number of projects such as placing historic plaques, conducting historical tours, printing books about local history and producing a semi-annual newsletter with local history topics and upcoming events.
Become a member
Annual dues are $20.00 for a Family Membership.
If you would like to keep receiving this newsletter, please make sure your dues are paid for the current year. We will be dropping those who are more than a year behind from the mailing list. Thank you.
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Tillamook County Historical Society
Meetings are usually the second Tuesdays of every month at the Tillamook Public Library unless otherwise noted for field trips. You can find more specific meeting dates, locations, and times in our current newsletter, found below.
Self-Guided Walking Tours of
Historic Downtown Tillamook
A walking tour brochure is available for self-guided tours at the front desk of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. The tour highlights historical buildings such as the Thayer Bank, constructed in 1894 from local sandstone; the post office (listed on the National Historic Registry) built in 1940, with its mural by Lucia Wiley, a nationally recognized fresco painter of that era ( www.muralist.org); private residences viewed from the street showing gothic, Italianate, plantation and bungalow styles of architecture; the former United Brethren Church, built in 1896; the Tillamook Hotel, built in three stages from 1900 to the 1940s, and many more locations.
For further information on the Tillamook County Historical Society. please email tillamookhistory@gmail.com.
For more information on The Tillamook County Pioneer Museum, located at 2106 2nd Street in Tillamook, Oregon, call Ruby Fry-Matson at 503-842-4553.
Download and/or view or print out the following brochures, maps, and Membership Forms (pdf) for the Tillamook County Historical Society and the Walking Tour of Downtown Tillamook:
25 Historic Sites on Oregon’s Tillamook Coast – Companion Map
We are partnering with the Tillamook Coast Visitors Association to publish a new book on historic sites along the Tillamook Coast. As a companion to the printed guidebook, we provide this interactive map that can be used on this website or opened and saved in the Google Maps mobile app. The spiral-bound guide will be available from our
website bookstore and various other locations throughout the county.
Google My Map created by Colleen Maguire
