Ocean City History
Ocean City, Washington Oldest of the North Beach communities, Ocean City was platted in 1925, but it is closely adjacent to some of the most historical
points of the Northern Grays Harbor area.
The community itself was laid out at the request of J.E. Glenn and Otis Chabot and the survey was made by E. Shorey, who at present lives at Sunset
Beach, with his father and his brother. Despite the absence of a road, lots in the area were immediately sold, and families quickly began moving in.
Much of the lumber used to build the first homes had washed in on the beach and was carried to the building sites over Conner Creek on a foot log at
almost exactly the location of the present bridge.
Ocean City is the closest of the North Beach communities to James Rock, discovered 1792 by Lt. Whidbey, one of Captain Vancouver's men,
and to Lone Tree Point, now Point Brown, and it's historic gnarled spruce, seen by Captain Robert Gray earlier the same year, but now gone.
later a dock was established at Lone Tree and supplies were brought out from Hoquiam by boat and teamed from there up the beach. A. O. Damon,
grandfather of Ralph Minard, who still lives at Pt. Brown, bought it from homesteaders in 1878, and traveled from Olympia by stage, boat and skiff to his new home.
Ocean City is virtually in the middle of Copalis Beach and is a center for both commercial and tourist clam diggers and summer vacationers
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