“Graveyard of the Pacific” was not easily tamed

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 2 p.m.

The century-long quest to make the Columbia River Bar reasonably safe got off to a rough start in 1853, when the ship bringing construction materials for its first lighthouse became one of its early victims. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1608d.taming-the-bar.405.html)