Rockaway Beach, OR, Website

Originating in the early years of the century as a summer vacation spot for Portlanders, Rockaway now plays that role for visitors from around the country. Today the City limits of Rockaway encompass the sundivisions or townsites from north to south named Manhattan, Highland Park Addition to Manhattan, Moroney Town, Lake Lytle, Beal's Addition to Lake Lytle: Seaview Park, Rockaway Beach, Elmore Park, Tillamook Beach (known as Saltair), Midway Beach, Twin Rocks, and a small portion of Ocean Lake Park. Information about these developments were gleaned from old abstracts, plat filings and records. as well as the stories by the early settlers and "summer people".