Westport, Oregon Totally Explained

Everything about Westport Oregon totally explained

Westport is an unincorporated community on the Columbia River in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Westport is connected to Cathlamet, Washington across the river via the Wahkiakum County Ferry to Puget Island. U.S. Route 30 passes through the community, connecting it to Astoria to the west and Clatskanie to the east. According to Oregon Geographic Names, Westport is named after John West, a millwright and lumberman who settled in the area 1850. West was a native of Scotland, emigrated to Canada as a young man where he worked in a sawmill on the St. Lawrence river and then came Oregon via California during the gold rush of 1849. West ran a sawmill and a salmon cannery in the community. Westport post office was established in 1863, and West was its first postmaster. He later served in the Oregon legislature.

Further Information

Get more info on 'Westport Oregon'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://westport__oregon.totallyexplained.com">Westport, Oregon Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.