Port Orford

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Port Orford

Port in Curry County, southwestern Oregon, USA, on the Pacific coast, 72 km/45 mi southwest of Coos Bay; population (1990) 1,000. It is the westernmost city in the Lower 48 states (continental USA, excluding Alaska). Its natural deepwater harbour was an early cedar shipping site, and now serves as a centre for lumbering and fishing industries. The Grassy Knob Wilderness lies 6 km/4 mi to the east. Port Orford was settled in the early 1850s, despite vigorous American Indian resistance.

The settlement is perched on high bluffs overlooking the ocean, a site noted by the British navigator George Vancouver in 1792, during his exploration of the west coast of North America.

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And south they went, along roads that steadily grew worse, through the dairy country of Langlois and through thick pine forests to Port Orford, where Saxon picked jeweled agates on the beach while Billy caught enormous rockcod.

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