Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Seattle Times
In Washington state, we consume the world's petroleum and offer it none of our own. But this state once had an oil rush - a small one - and the beginnings of a boomtown called Oil City. It was on the Olympic Peninsula at the mouth of the Hoh River, which drains the famed Hoh rain forest. The Oil City townsite is now part of one of the best-preserved stretches of rugged, natural coastline in the United States. The much-touted Oregon coast, which is barnacled from Astoria to Brookings with myrtlewood shops and motels, cannot touch it. Neither can the southern Washington coast, most of which is...

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