Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay is an active-duty U.S. Coast Guard facility located in Garibaldi on Tillamook Bay, approximately 7.5 miles (12 km) northwest of Tillamook, Oregon. The station has been in operation since 1942 and is recognized as a historic site.

Daniel Bayley was one of the first settlers on Tillamook Bay, where he built a hotel and general store. He was officially granted title to the property on May 15, 1869, by President Ulysses S. Grant. In 1870, President Grant appointed him as the area’s first postmaster. Bayley named the new postmark after Giuseppe Garibaldi, a general who contributed to the unification of Italy and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.

Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay has been an active-duty installation since 1908. The boathouse at Garibaldi, built in 1936, was set at the end of a 760-foot (232-m) wooden pier equipped with a marine railway. It could accommodate two 36-foot (11-m) motor lifeboats and one 26-foot (8-m) oar-powered surfboat. The marine railway allowed for the rapid, fully-manned launch of boats into the water. The two-story boathouse structure was decommissioned in the 1960s. Read more here and here. Explore more of Garibaldi and Tillamook Bay here: