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Builders were hard to find for Tillamook Rock Lighthouse job

Published: June 9, 2020, 2 p.m.

Locals familiar with Tillamook Rock would have nothing to do with the project, so the government had to hire suckers from distant cities to fill crews; rumor has it some were even supplied by shanghaiers. (Tillamook Rock, Tillamook County; 1878) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1511a.building-tillamook-rock-363.html)