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Coos County Logging Museum

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Type
  
Industrial museum

Architect
  
Samuel Giles

Year built
  
1910

Website
  
loggingmuseum.org

Phone
  
+1 541-572-1014

Added to NRHP
  
18 October 1979

Coos County Logging Museum

Location
  
705 Maple Street Myrtle Point, Oregon, USA

Area
  
4,750 square feet (441 m)

Built by
  
Thomas Dickson, Charles McCracken

Address
  
705 Maple St, Myrtle Point, OR 97458, USA

Similar
  
Coos Art Museum, Columbia River Maritime, High Desert Museum, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Coast Aquarium

The Coos County Logging Museum is museum in located in Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States. The museum's focus is the historical forest products industry, particularly logging specific to the local area of Coos County which is situated among vast forest preserves. The museum, a non-profit educational institution, is staffed entirely by volunteers, many of whom hail from the logging camps themselves.

The museum building is a shingled dome modeled after the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Coos County Logging Museum Wikipedia