Editing Tillamook, Oregon (section)

==History==
The city is named for the [[Tillamook people]], a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe speaking a [[Salishan language]] who lived in this area until the early 19th&nbsp;century. Anthropologist [[Franz Boas]] identifies the Tillamook Native Americans as the southernmost branch of the [[Coast Salish peoples]] of the Pacific Northwest. This group was separated geographically from the northern branch by tribes of [[Chinookan peoples]] who occupied territory between them. The name ''Tillamook'', he says, is of [[Chinook languages|Chinook]] origin, and refers to the people of a locality known as ''Elim'' or ''Kelim.'' They spoke [[Tillamook language|Tillamook]], a combination of two dialects. Tillamook culture differed from that of the northern Coast Salish, Boas says, and might have been influenced by tribal cultures to the south, in what is now [[Northern California]].<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 533608|title = Traditions of the Tillamook Indians|journal = The Journal of American Folklore|volume = 11|issue = 40|pages = 23–38|last1 = Boas|first1 = Franz|year = 1898|doi = 10.2307/533608}}</ref>

Captain [[Robert Gray (sea captain)|Robert Gray]] first anchored in [[Tillamook Bay]] in 1788, marking the first recorded European landing on the Oregon coast. Settlers began arriving in the early 1850s, and Tillamook County was created by the Territorial legislature in 1853. In 1862, the town itself was laid out, and the first post office was opened in 1866.  The town was voted to be the county seat in 1873, and Tillamook was officially incorporated as a city in 1891.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tillamook History|url=https://tillamookor.gov/tillamook-history/|access-date=2021-06-19|website=City of Tillamook|language=en-US}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], the [[United States Navy]] operated a [[blimp]] patrol station near the town at [[Naval Air Station Tillamook]]. The station was decommissioned in 1948, and the remaining facility now houses [[Tillamook Air Museum]].