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Article: COASTAL TOWNS SEEK FORMULA FOR SUCCESS.(General News)(From tourism and retirees to logging, fishing and high-tech, booster groups clash on how to restore a healthy economy)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 30, 2005
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
In 1922, a fire tore through Front Street in Marshfield, destroying much of the city's downtown business district, where tourists and locals alike frequented shops along the edge of Coos Bay.
Rather than rebuild in the same spot, town leaders moved City Hall to Central Avenue and created a new downtown along the coast's main thoroughfare: present-day Highway 101. Industrial buildings sprouted where the city center once was. By the time Marshfield was renamed Coos Bay in 1944, views of the water were shrouded by the gritty aesthetic of the industries that drove the town: timber and fishing.
The bay's ...
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