Coos County Logging Museum | |||||||||||||||||
Coordinates: | 43.0643°N -124.1399°W | ||||||||||||||||
Location: | 705 Maple Street Myrtle Point, Oregon, USA | ||||||||||||||||
Type: | Industrial museum | ||||||||||||||||
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The Coos County Logging Museum is museum in located in Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States. The museum's focus is the historical forest products industry, particularly logging specific to the local area of Coos County which is situated among vast forest preserves. The museum, a non-profit educational institution, is staffed entirely by volunteers, many of whom hail from the logging camps themselves.
The museum building is a shingled dome modeled after the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[2]