Most American communities have experienced steady growth and development. Such was the situation of Bandon, Oregon, for its first sixty years. Although economic downturns and heavy dependence on natural resources created problems, the town advanced steadily through population growth and construction.
Disaster of a dimension seldom felt in the United States befell Bandon in 1936. A calamitous forest fire drove the community's residents onto the beaches and into refuge on the sandy North Spit across the river. In a few hours fire destroyed virtually the entire business district and most of the town's residences. Nearly a dozen people perished in the flames and smoke.
This book, illustrated by photographs, documents the community and presents both the town's history as well as numerous first person accounts of its 1936 calamity. Bandon By-the-Sea is truly a story of hope and perseverance.
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