Description:  Placed at “The Lookout” , the souvenir shop, the only building on this headland, lies beyond the information board.

History:  The board was erected by Lincoln County Historical Society.

Inscription:
On wooden boarding:

1778
CAPE FOULWEATHER
CAPT. JAMES COOK, GREAT ENGLISH NAVIGATOR
DISCOVERED AND NAMED THIS PROMONTORY ON A VERY
STORMY MARCH 7, 1778.  HE HAD JUST COME IN HIS TWO
SHIPS “RESOLUTION” and “DISCOVERY”, FROM DISCOVERING
THE SANDWICH (HAWAIIAN) ISLANDS AND THIS WAS HIS
FIRST SIGHT OF NEW ALBION (THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST
OF AMERICA).  ON BOARD WAS JOHN LEDYARD OF CONNECTICUT.
CORPORAL OF BRITISH MARINES.  BOTH COOK’S AND LEDYARD’S
ACCOUNTS OF THIS VOYAGE WERE PUBLISHED.  WORLD INTEREST
WAS AROUSED.  FUR TRADE FOLLOWED THE HISTORY OF THE
OLD OREGON COUNTRY AS A FUTURE PART OF THE UNITED
STATES BEGAN AT THIS POINT.

P.S. – WINDS – 100 M.P.H. AT THIS LOCATION ARE NOT UNUSUAL.

PLACED BY LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 12

A later board:

CENTRAL OREGON COAST HISTORY
CAPE FOULWEATHER
Cape Foulweather was discovered by Captain James
Cook, the English explorer on March 7, 1778.
The weather was particularly stormy on the day of his
discovery (winds of 100 MPH at the cape are not unusual.
Captain Cook named the location Cape Foulweather,
the first geographic location named on his voyage to
the north Pacific coast.   Once accounts of this voyage
were published, world interest was aroused and
the fur trade followed. 

Placed by
Lincoln County Historical Society 545 S.W. Ninth Newport Or.97365
(541) 265 7509

GPS Coordingates:  44.772337,  -124.075950

References:
Website:  https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=113741
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