Transportation

In 1872, the Coos Bay Wagon Road was completed. The 58-mile road connected Coos Bay and Roseburg, and a stagecoach could make the trip in about 28 hours in good weather. Another route to the interior followed the stage line north along the beach at low tide, with passengers crossing Coos Bay by small boat to Jordan Cove, transferring to a stagecoach traveling twenty-five miles north to Winchester Bay, then boarding a steamer inland up the Umpqua River to Scottsburg to complete the trip into the Willamette Valley by stagecoach. In August 1916, Southern Pacific Railroad completed a rail line between Coos Bay and Eugene by way of Florence to the north end and then inland up the Siuslaw River to Eugene. The new access to the Willamette Valley was a cause for celebration on Coos Bay.

Coos Bay, Oregon · United States