Sitkum, Oregon
Sitkum, Oregon | |
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.jpg) Civilian Conservation Corps' Camp Sitkum, 1933 | |
  Sitkum Location within the state of Oregon  Sitkum Sitkum (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 43°08′53″N 123°51′40″W / 43.14806°N 123.86111°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Coos |
| Elevation | 722 ft (220 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
Sitkum is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States.[1] It is about 27 miles north of Remote in the Southern Oregon Coast Range near the East Fork Coquille River.[2] Sitkum is served by the Myrtle Point post office.
A tavern or roadhouse was established as a stagecoach stop near a point halfway between Roseburg and Coos City on the Coos Bay Wagon Road about 1872 or 1873.[3][4] A competitor put up another halfway house nearby and the name Sitkum, a Chinook Jargon word for "half", was selected for the place.[3] Sitkum post office took its name from the tavern.[3] It ran from 1873 to 1964, with one intermission.[3] The Halfway House at Sitkum was a combination restaurant, tavern, rooming house, post office and telegraph station where travelers stopped while horses were changed.[4] There is little left of the community today, and the Sitkum School was converted into a residence.[4] The former teacher's house and the gym still exist on the grounds.[4]
Google Maps cartographic team did not bother to record the town, and the site's map "pin" locates the town center out in a pasture.
References
- ^ a b "Sitkum". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
- ^ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 52. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
- ^ a b c d McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 883. ISBN 978-0875952772.
- ^ a b c d Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. pp. 225–226. ISBN 0-87004-332-3.
External links
- Historic image of Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Sitkum from the Oregon State University Archives
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