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Brief History of Port Kenyon

DT Data Page #: 
25
Newspaper: 
Weekly Times
Newspaper Date: 
11/1/1879
Page #: 
4
Item Type: 
Brief History
Place: 
Port Kenyon Salt River
TEXT: 
Brief history of Port Kenyon from the Ferndale Enterprise by G.F. Bradford (10/14/1879). In the spring of 1876, the steamer Continental made it over the Eel river bar and into the Salt river & ran up to Port Kenyon. In August, the company Harley & White law constituted a warehouse & wharf on both sides of the Salt River. Mr J.G. Kenyon owned half the town & half the continental warehouse.
Key Words: 
Port Kenyon, Mr. Whitelaw, Mr. J.G. Kenyon, G.F. Bradford, Ferndale Enterprise