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An Index to Myrtle Point Beginnings
Myrtle Point Beginnings written by Curt Beckham ©1985
Index compiled by Robyn Greenlund ©2006

Curt Beckham's Myrtle Point Beginnings book contains over 560 individuals and places in its 67 pages.
The following is a Table of Contents for the book and the Corrections that have been identified to date.

Table of Contents
     Myrtle Point Beginnings ...........................................  1
     An Indian Love Story ................................................  3
     The Trail of Christian Lehnherr ...............................  5
     Tragedy at 4th of July Picnic ....................................  7
     Early Day Fires ........................................................   9
     Myrtle Point's Brick Buildings ..............................   11
     First Trains to Myrtle Point ...................................   13
     A Growing Town .....................................................   15
     Newspapers from 1889 ...........................................   17
     Riverboats, Stagecoaches & Pack Trains ............   19
     Myrtle Point in 1911 ...............................................   27
     The Historic Round Building .................................   29
     Hotels of the Past ...................................................   31
     Wooden Water Mains Replaced ...........................   33
     The Beginning of a Church ....................................   35
     Bank Robbery ........................................................   37
     Security Bank Organized in 1919 ..........................   39
     Myrtle Point Libary ................................................   41
     A Myrtlewood Church ............................................   43
     The Mast Hospital ..................................................   45
     Early Day Schools ...................................................   47
     Local Music Begins with a Piano ...........................   51
     Speed Record in 1920..............................................   53
     The Fruit Capital of Coos County...........................   55
     Hollywood Comes to Myrtle Point.........................   57
     Coos County Fair ....................................................   59
     An Early Day Football Game .................................   61
     Baseball Riverboat Trip to Bandon .......................   63
     Early Day Basketball .............................................   65
     Sources of Information ...........................................   67

Corrections

Key to Errata: the first # to appear is the page on which the error is located; the second, the Roman numeral represents the paragraph on that page; the third is the line in that paragraph.
Page Paragraph Line Correction and source note
11 i 1 1880 should read 1890. Source: Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties by Orvil Dodge, ©1898 page 226
       
 
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