McCaffrey Island, Oregon, United States
January 12, 2011
McCaffrey Island is 5 miles by water to Newport’s historic Bay Front. It is located on the Yaquina River only 6 miles by boat to the open ocean. There are apple trees on the Island for the deer that frequent the area. The island has electrical service, telephone service and a well. The 5-bedroom house is furnished and ready to move in. There is a small sandy beach on one side of the Island.
The house has a large kitchen with slab granite countertops, two sinks, two refrigerators, one gas cook top, and one electric stove with an oven and dishwasher. There are 5 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, and an extra room approximately 18’ x 18’ with a wood stove. It has been used as a dorm room for large groups with children. The house was designed for entertaining, and has a large covered deck with fire pit, used for conversation, cooking oysters, salmon, crab, clams etc. Salmon, sturgeon and crab have been caught from the boat dock.
McCaffrey Island was named for Irishman William McCaffrey, an oysterman who established Oysterville, and was once owned by a descendent of famed frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
G. L. Boone, the great-grandson of the famous frontiersman, was a frontiersman in his own right. He fought in the US-Mexican War (1846-1848) alongside Meriwether Lewis Clark, son of Captain William Clark of the renowned Lewis Clark Overland Expedition. Boone served as a pilot for immigrant wagons to Oregon in 1848.
Returning from the California gold rush, Boone wintered at Myrtle Creek in Southern Oregon, where in 1852 he met and married 13-year-old Mourning Ann Young. Riding double on horseback, the newlyweds spent their honeymoon in the Yaquina Bay region. In 1865, Boone helped survey the first road over the Coast Range to Yaquina Bay. The Boones prospered, rearing a family of 12, and in 1870 built a fine home on the site. (Historic Toledo On The Bay, Pioneer Printing 1988, brochure)
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