Join the Western Flyer Foundation and the Lincoln County Historical Society for an evening of film and conversation featuring The Western Flyer with Nick Offerman and a panel on cooperative fisheries science with local scientists and fishermen at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center at 5:30pm on Wednesday, May 20. Panel moderated by Jack Barth (Oregon State University). Follow the link below to purchase tickets.
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Join the LCHS for their Annual Meeting on Saturday, May 23, at 1pm at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center. We will have a talk on the history of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians by Bud Lane, Vice-Chair of Tribal Council for the Tribe and LCHS Board Member, and the opening of Oregon Historical Society’s traveling exhibit, Oregon Voices. Click the poster below for more information and details on this free event!
The Pacific Maritime Heritage Center will soon have a Maritime Library! We are partnering with Oregon Coots to host their maritime collection and will feature a comprehensive catalog of maritime related books, charts, and magazines for guests to enjoy and LCHS members to check out. Final touches are being made and we plan to hold a ribbon cutting in early June, so look for that announcement coming soon. Along with this library project we created more staff offices, an exhibit prep area, and additional storage.
Thank you to the contributors and volunteers that made this project possible.
Donors:
Joe Novello and the George Muhek Trust
The Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund
Dan Van Calcar
Bob and Jerryann Olson
Oregon Coots
The Port of Toledo
Volunteers:
Old Guys of Toledo
Oregon Coots
USCG Yaquina Bay
Bud Shoemake
Reino Randall
Dan Van Calcar
It has been 60 years since the sister city relationship was established between two port towns overlooking the North Pacific Ocean: Newport, Oregon, and Mombetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. Community involvement has been essential in keeping the relationship vibrant. This exhibit will feature objects from Mombetsu that were gifted to the City of Newport when this relationship was established along with photographs and information of this historical day.
Thank you to the Rotary Club of Newport for their sponsorship and the City of Newport and City of Mombetsu for their collaboration.
See the flyer below for more information!
James (Jim) William Haron (1931-2008) was well known for documenting the fishing industry in Newport and Depoe Bay though photography. A beloved local character, his photographs were often used in regional publications.
Jim moved to the area in 1975 and spent over 30-years documenting the fishing vessels, maritime activities, and fisher families in the area using skills he learned as an aerial photographer for the Marines. It was always his dream to document the lives and work of fishers on the Oregon Coast. He would often be seen selling his photographs directly below the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center’s location on Port Dock 5 while wearing his trademark neon orange hat.
He donated thousands of photographs to the Lincoln County Historical Society shortly before his death in 2008 and pieces of his collection continue to be discovered and donated to this day. His photographs are an invaluable resource for historians and researchers, documenting vessels and maritime activities. He recorded the boats he documented alphabetically by name, from the “Aallotar” to the “Zarembo II.” The photos are organized in albums and notebooks, and his meticulous filing notes can be seen on the backing paper of his photos.
In 2025, the Lincoln County Historical Society received a grant from the Lincon County Cultural Coalition and funding from Englund Marine to purchase equipment to digitize, display, and better care for the Haron Collection. The project was a success. We have digitized over 1000 photos in less than a year thanks to this grant and hard-working volunteers. We now have 100 selected photographs from this digitized collection on an iPad slideshow at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center. We continue to discover and digitize more of his photography and are excited to share part of this priceless collection.
