Editing Seaside, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[File:Ocean Shore Limited railroad at Seaside, Oregon (3229235015).jpg|thumb|left|Ocean Shore Limited railroad at Seaside, Oregon ca. 1910]]
[[File:GilbertHouse.JPG|thumb|left|The Gilbert House in Seaside]]
The [[Clatsop]] were a historic Native American tribe that had a village named ''Ne-co-tat'' (in their [[Chinook language]]) in this area. [[Indigenous peoples]] had long inhabited the coastal area.

About January 1, 1806, a group of men from the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] built a salt-making [[cairn]] at the site later developed as Seaside. The city was not [[municipal incorporation|incorporated]] until February 17, 1899, when coastal resort areas were being settled.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Leeds|first=W. H.|year=1899|title=Special Laws|journal=The State of Oregon General and Special Laws and Joint Resolutions and Memorials Enacted and Adopted by the Twentieth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly|publisher=State Printer|location=Salem, Oregon|page=959|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsCwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22ocean%20grove%22%20seaside%20oregon&pg=PA959}}</ref> It is about {{convert|79|mi}} by car northwest of [[Portland, Oregon]], a major population center.<ref>[http://www.distance-cities.com/distance-portland-or-to-seaside-or "Seaside, OR to Portland, OR"], Distance between Cities website, 2016</ref>

In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843–1932) was elected Mayor of Seaside. Gilbert was a French immigrant, a veteran of the [[Franco Prussian War]] (1870–1871). After living in [[San Francisco, California]] and [[Astoria, Oregon]], Gilbert moved to Seaside where he had a beach cottage (built in 1885). Gilbert was a real estate developer who donated land to the City of Seaside for its one-and-a-half-mile-long [[Promenade]], or "Prom", along the Pacific beach.

In 1892, he added to his beach cottage. Nearly 100 years later, what was known as the Gilbert House was operated commercially as the Gilbert Inn since the mid-1980s. Both it and Gilbert's eponymous "Gilbert Block" office building on Broadway still survive.

Gilbert died at home in Seaside and is interred in [[Ocean View Abbey Mausoleum]] in [[Warrenton, Oregon|Warrenton]].