There was no road connection to Ilwaco until 1891, when the bridge was completed across the Chinook River.

Ilwaco was officially incorporated on December 16, 1890.

A siding was built for the Ilwaco Mill and Lumber Company.

The Ilwaco freight depot was in a different building.

Vincent, Ilwaco and Long Beach, who was probably the owner of Vincent's Souvenirs.

Ocean Park was once a station on the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, a narrow gauge railroad that ran along the Long Beach Peninsula from 1889 to 1930.

U. S. Route 830, ( US 830 ), was a U. S. Highway which ran between a junction with U. S. Route 97 near the city of Maryhill, Washington and a junction with U. S. Route 101 near Ilwaco, Washington.

Cape Disappointment State Park, near Ilwaco, Washington, has a large population but harvesting is a potential felony that is enforced by local law enforcement agencies.

A narrow gauge railway, Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, ran for over thirty years.

* Omak Me Yours Tonight, or, Ilwaco million miles for one of your smiles: A Ballard of Washington State ( 1993 ) ( ISBN 0-9634294-1-8 )

The route still ( mostly ) exists ; however it is currently signed as State Route 14 between Maryhill and Vancouver, Washington, Interstate 5 between Vancouver and Longview, State Route 432 for a short stretch through Longview ; and State Route 4 from Longview to the western terminus near Ilwaco.

The highway crosses the mouth of the Columbia River over the 4-mile-long ( 6-km ) Astoria-Megler Bridge at Astoria into Washington, and follows the Columbia downstream to Ilwaco.

From Ilwaco, U. S. 101 follows the Pacific coastline as far as Raymond, from which it proceeds directly north to Aberdeen, offering access from this city into the Olympic National Park.

Later, the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company built a narrow gauge railroad from Megler to Ilwaco, passing down the main street of Chinook.

Ilwaco ( ) is a city in Pacific County, Washington, United States.

The railroad ran north up First Street in Ilwaco.

A published photo shows the railroad's Ilwaco facilities, including a gallows turntable and elevated watering trough, were located on the southwest corner of the intersection of First and Spruce streets.

A published photo shows the passenger depot on the west side of First Street, at a point 14. 8 miles ( 23. 8 km ) from the Ilwaco Depot to Nahcotta.

The freight depot survived to modern times, and has been relocated to became part of the Ilwaco Heritage Museum.

The train ran out on the dock in Ilwaco.

Floating logs were stored behind log booms on the west side of the Ilwaco dock.

Ilwaco is located at ( 46. 312541 ,-124. 029688 ) on the Long Beach Peninsula.

* Modern view of First Street in Ilwaco, looking north.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.