The following brief history of the Brookings Harbor community used a single source, “Then till Now” compiled by the Brookings Rotary Club, copyright 1979. A more expansive history can be found
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The community of Brookings-Harbor rests at the mouth of the Chetco River encompasses a growing population of over 17,000 people. The city incorporated in 1951 and now has five traffic lights and a functioning police department. In Brookings three Regular Rural Routes and one Auxiliary Route are covered by carriers who drive a total of 145 miles daily, delivering mail to 1,333 road side boxes.
The earliest known inhabitants of what is today the Brookings-Harbor area were members of the Chetco tribe of Indians, an Athapascan linguistic group who lived along the Chetco River and regions of the lower Winchuck River northward to Cape Ferrelo.
