#oregon-history

#oregon-history

The 15-member commission, which was created by the Oregon Legislature, has already awarded $125,000 in community grants to 38 eligible organizations for projects focusing on how the 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 has shaped the state. The funding, which was approved in two rounds, has flowed to both urban and rural parts of Oregon. Now the commission has announced that a third round of grants totaling $50,000 will be available starting on Wednesday, March 4. The maximum grant is $3,000 and no match is required. Fifty percent of the grants will be dedicated to rural communities.

On a narrow spit of sand on Tillamook Bay, this "Atlantic City of the West" rose in the early 1900s with a dance hall, 1,000-seat movie theater, bowling alley, bandstand for live music, and heated saltwater swimming pool with a wave generator. Began sliding into the sea by 1926. Final building swallowed up in 1971. Bridal Veil Columbia River mill town near falls of the same name.