Visiting around Coos Bay

One of the "challenges" that we have been given by the rally is to go to several local businesses or museums and get a stamp on our "Poker Card" to participate in a "poker tournament" (they deal out the cards and your hand is a winner or loser) on Saturday. It is a good way to get the rally participants out and about in the community, so we set about to work on getting our stamps on Wednesday.

We also wanted to go to a grocery store in town, so, after stopping there, we headed to the Coos Bay History Museum.

From outside the museum

We found a number of outdoor exhibits / informational signs around the museum building.

The first one had to do with the bridge that we crossed on Tuesday (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2022/06/tuesday-to-coos-bay.html). It is called the McCullough Bridge.

Conde McCullough was also the builder of the bridge that we crossed over the Siuslaw River in Florence (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-few-hours-of-blue-sky-and-sun.html, https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2022/06/florence-art.html)

We also saw the remains of "Central Dock",

"They had to work quickly and efficiently as it cost over $30,000 a day to fill a ship at berth."

Then we learned about "The Mosquito Fleet":

"The Welcome carries 10-gallon milk cans from docks along the Coos River to the creameries in Marshfield. Passengers chose seating in the enclosed tower deck or open-air top deck."

"The image... shows The Welcome operating on the Umpqua River in the 1950s."

Steam Spool Logging Donkey

The "New Carissa" - the ship that would not die:

This was propeller was not identified, but it was right next to the exhibit on the "New Carissa - The Ship that would not die".