1957 Map of Toledo

About this map

The winding Siletz River and Yaquina River define the logging and maritime landscape of central Lincoln County in the late 1950s. At the heart of the coastal activity, Toledo sits at the junction of the Southern Pacific railroad and the upper reaches of Yaquina Bay. The map documents a transition from industrial riverfronts to the dense timberlands of the Siuslaw National Forest, where a Logging Railroad once pushed deep into the hills north of Siletz.