Editing Coos Bay, Oregon (section)

===19th century===
[[File:Steamboat Coos.jpg|thumb|left|Steamboat Coos, sometime before 1895, probably in or near Coos Bay, Oregon]]

The earliest settlement of European Americans in the area was in January 1852 when survivors of the ''Captain Lincoln'' shipwreck established [[Camp Castaway]] until they and their cargo could be fully rescued.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wells |first=Gwen |title=Contact and Settlement: Settlement Begins |url=http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/narratives/subtopic.cfm?subtopic_ID=554 |work=The Oregon History Project |publisher=[[Oregon Historical Society]] |access-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023200928/http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/narratives/subtopic.cfm?subtopic_ID=554 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Dodge |first=Orvil |year=1898 |title=Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, Oregon |publisher=Capital Printing Company |location=Salem, Oregon |pages=115–125 }}</ref> There has been a permanent settlement on Coos Bay since 1853, when the town of Marshfield was founded there and named after the [[Marshfield, Massachusetts|Massachusetts hometown]] of its founder, J. C. Tolman.<ref name=City/> The first Methodist church in the area was established in 1857.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our History |work=Coos Bay United Methodist Church |access-date=April 6, 2014 |url=http://www.coosbayumc.org/818775 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121221020658/http://www.coosbayumc.org/818775 |archive-date=December 21, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> By 1866 the inhabitants, who were reliant on the sea for their income, had built the [[Cape Arago Light]]. The setting up of a post office in 1871 and the arrival of the [[Coos Bay Wagon Road]] in the town a year later connected Coos County with the [[Umpqua River]] valley in neighboring Douglas County, on the other side of the [[Southern Oregon Coast Range|Coast Range]] of mountains. This wagon road, although long gone in its original form, is still partially in existence since the route of [[Oregon Route 42]] roughly follows the original right of way.

1870 saw Coos Bay set up its first, and the state's 48th, chartered [[Masonic Lodge]].<ref>[http://www.oregonmasons.com/hist1.html Oregon Masons] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109031723/http://oregonmasons.com/hist1.html |date=January 9, 2007 }}</ref> Named Blanco Lodge, this brotherhood was set up by several of the town's founding fathers. With this development, the [[Municipal corporation|incorporation]] of Marshfield came in 1874. One of the nation's oldest still-operating machine shops, the Nelson Machine Works-Coos Bay Iron Works, was founded in 1888.