"Captain" John West and Westport, Oregon

John West came from Linlithgow in Scotland by way of Quebec and the California gold fields, and by 1851 was milling lumber here. He salted salmon into barrels for shipment around Cape Horn, helped found the first cannery on the Oregon side of the river in 1868, and built a machine to fill the cans. His British importers were the ones who kept his name. In 1888, the year he died, the Liverpool merchants Pelling and Stanley acquired the rights to it, and John West, the brand, is now owned by Thai Union.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Astoria Column — 18 mi
  A railroad's 1926 monument to its own route, wrapped in a 525-foot spiral of Oregon history that ends with the train pulling into Astoria.
• Fort Clatsop — 21 mi
  The log post the Corps of Discovery named for its neighbors, and left to the Clatsop headman Coboway five days after stealing one of his people's canoes.