Read It Now! March 3, 2025 -- The March 2025 Edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! September 10, 2024 -- The Septemeber 2024 Edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! June 16, 2024 -- High Winds at the Oceanview Cemetery-Read about how volunteers get it cleaned up!

Read It Now! June 1, 2024 -- The June 2024 Edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! March 1, 2024 -- The March 2024 Edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! December 1, 2023 -- The December 2023 Edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! September 1, 2023 -- The September 2023 Edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! May 18, 2023 -- Gary Topping has written a great article about entertainment in Bandon in the early 1900's, "The Bandon Concert Band, 1901-36."

Read It Now! March 1, 2023 -- The March 2023 Edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! December 10, 2022 -- Learn more about a 1926 4-H Club chartered as "The Potato Club of Bullard" and the actual charter document donated by Tom Hultin.

Read It Now! December 6, 2022 -- The December 2022 Edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! September 25, 2022 -- The Bandon Fire Special Edition 2022 of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Start your search! September 9, 2022 -- Our 5 year project to digitize the Museum's Obituary Card File has finally been completed. Obits, gravestone images and cemetery data is now available online.

Read It Now! September 8, 2022 -- The September 2022 edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! June 6, 2022 -- The June 2022 edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! April 30, 2022 -- Learn more about a 1909 artifact sent to the museum from Canby, Oregon.

Read It Now! March 5, 2022 -- The March 2022 edition of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! December 15, 2021 -- The December 2021 ediltion of the Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! November 1, 2021 -- The 2021 Veterans Day Special Edition Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! October 1, 2021 -- The Fall 2021 Special Edition Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! September 3, 2021 -- The September 2021 Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! June 2, 2021 -- The June 2021 Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! March 2, 2021 -- The March 2021 Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! December 2, 2020 -- The December 2020 Bandon Light Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! October 29, 2020 -- Special Veterans Day Issue- October 2020 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! September 18, 2020 -- EXTRA! EXTRA! Special Edition Fall Newsletter!!. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! August 28, 2020 -- Our September 2020 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! August 28, 2020 -- Our September 2020 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! June 2, 2020 -- Our June 2020 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! March 4, 2020 -- Our March 2020 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! February 3, 2020 -- The Museum has reopened. Read about the big cannon move and our new floors.

Read It Now! January 31, 2020 -- We have updated the Bandon History Timeline. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! December 16, 2019 -- Our December 2019 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Read It Now! October 3, 2019 -- Our October 2019 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

  Read About It! October 2, 2019 -- Everyone loves a mystery. This one involves a box found in a storage locker. Can you help us?

  Read About It! August 25, 2019 -- Bandon Museum holds its first classic "Car Klatch". The parking lot was full of classic and vintage cars.

  Read About It! August 18, 2019 -- Gold fever hit Bandon this summer with several gold panning events on our Free Summer Sundays.

Read It Now! July 7, 2019 -- Our July 2019 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

  Read About It! December 7, 2018 -- The Museum received a grant from the Fred W. Fields Fund of the Oregon Community Fund.

Read About It! December 6, 2018 -- Second graders from Ocean Crest School visited the Museum to help decorate and learn some history.

Read It Now! December 6, 2018 -- Our December 2018 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

  Read About It! December 1, 2018 -- Local author Patti Strain presented information about her recent book World War II: Lest We Forget.

  Read About It! December 2018 -- Our Christmas Village is now on display at the Museum; stop in to see it.

  Read About It! October 27, 2018 -- A Night at the Museum was a sell out and we plan to do it again next year!

  Read About It! September 28, 2018 -- Students from Bandon High School perform service day activities at the Museum.

  Read About It! September 23, 2018 -- Survivors of the 1936 Bandon Fire gathered at the Museum to share their stories with those in attendance.

  Read About It! September 15, 2018 -- The September 2018 Bandon Light newsletter is now available. Click the link to read about Bandon's history and museum activities.

  Read About It! June 1, 2018 -- The June 2018 Bandon Light newsletter is now available online. Click the link to read about Bandon's history and museum activities.

  Read About It! May 21, 2018 -- Free Summer Sundays begins. The Museum opens 7 days a week and has free admission on Sunday.

  Read About It! April 21, 2018 -- Tales from the Cemetery: Who's buried at Bullards Beach. A packed house heard Jim Proehl make this presentation.

  Read About It! March 4, 2018 -- The March 2018 Bandon Light newsletter is now available online. Read the story about the Riverton School Desk.

  Read About It! February 12, 2018 -- Bandon High's Community Arts class create museum exhibits for the Gorse Blossom Festival.

  Read About It! February 6, 2018 -- Sponsors for the 2018 season are supporting the Museum's events and projects. We encourage you to visit our sponsors and business members.

  Read About It! February 6, 2018 -- Election results are in for the 2018 Board of Directors and officers.

Learn How! January 28, 2018 -- Learn how you can support the Museum at no additional expense by participating in the McKays and Amazon Smile rewards programs.

Search the Data January 19, 2018 -- The Museum's cemetery and obituary records are now available in an online searchable database.

Learn About It! December 27, 2017 -- Photo scanning milestone reached. Western World images are being digitized for the future.

Read It Now! December 15, 2017 -- Our December 2017 Newsletter is now available for viewing. Click the link and take a look.

Learn About It! December 13, 2017 -- A first person account of growing up in Bullards, OR by Dorothy Chandler. Learn about the Bullards Post Office and Store.

Read About It! November 20, 2017 -- Boy Scout Eagle Projects Provides Improved Parking Area for the Museum.

Read About It! November 20, 2017 -- Oregon Community Foundation Awards a Grant to the Museum to help "Keep the Lights On"

Read About It! November 11, 2017 -- Successful Veterans Day Celebration was held at the Museum with more than 200 visitors attending.

Read About It! October 24, 2017 -- Students take "The Cemetery Challenge". See what they learned about in Bandon's cemeteries.

Read About It! October 19, 2017 -- Bandon High history classes visit the Museum when their trip to the cemetery was rained out.

Read About It! November 11, 2017 -- Special Veterans Day Celebration at the Museum. Free admission all day.

Read About It! October 10, 2017 -- The October 2017 edition of the Bandon Light newsletter has published and is available for viewing.

Read About It! September 28, 2017 -- Coast Guard Memories are shared by Art Dobney in this undated document.

Read About It! July 31, 2017 -- Long time employee Eileen Scott retires from the Bandon History Museum.

Read About It! July 5, 2017  -- A Southwest Museum Association brochure link has been added to identify the local museums.

Read About It! June 22, 2017  -- Student history detectives hike around Bandon in search of historical items.

Read About It! June 10, 2017  -- Mack Handsaker receives $10,000 Bandon-Fifty Years Later scholarship award.

Read About It! May 6, 2017 -- Bob Fisher along with Reg Pullen and Mary Shamehorn speak about shiprwrecks, rescues and survival.

Read About It! March 21, 2017 -- The March 2017 edition of the Bandon Light newsletter has published and is available for viewing.

Read About It! February 12, 2017 -- MSNBC works with the Museum in their Face Rock Creamery video production.

Read About It! February 1, 2017 -- The Bandon Western World donates their newspaper archives to the Museum.

Read About It! February 1, 2017 -- Bandon High School students visit the Museum as part of their final exam.

Read About It! January 30, 2017 -- The Coos County Cultural Coalition awards grant to the Museum.

Read About It! November 20, 2016 -- Author HS Contino visits the Museum to conduct research for her new book.

Read It Now! November 16, 2016 -- The November 2016 Bandon Light newsletter has been published.

Read About It! November 14, 2016 -- Veterans' Celebration was a success with more than 100 visitors.

Read About It! November 13, 2016 -- The Oregon Community Foundation Awards a grant to the Bandon Historical Society.

Read About It! October 31, 2016 -- Information about the Museum's "Celebrating Veterans" Event on Nov. 12 is now available.

Meet Gayle! October 21, 2016 -- Welcome to Bandon Historical Society Museum's new directior, Gayle Propeck.

Read About It! October 1, 2016 -- Survivors of the 1936 Bandon fire and interested visitors shared their experiences at the museum.

Read About It! September 10, 2016 -- The Bandon High Class of '61 held an event at the Museum on Cranberry Festival Weekend.

Read About It! August 27, 2016 -- Learn about two authors who visited the Museum to do some research for their books.

Read About It! August 27, 2016 -- Thank you Volunteers! The 2016 Volunteer Appreciation Picnic was a great success.

Read About It! August 27, 2016 -- Information is available about a new book: Coos County Memories: The Early Years.

Read About It! August 27, 2016 -- Information updated about Cranberry Festival Weekend and the 80th Anniversary of the 1936 Fire.

Read About It! August 21, 2016 -- Read a new story of an unusual visit to the museum and a miracle rescue.

Read About It! August 14, 2016 -- Information about a new Museum display of Bandon's past and present was added.

Read About It! August 1, 2016 -- Tour of Bandon with Reg Pullen and South Coast Striders added to Calendar for Sunday, August 7, 2016.

Read About It! August 1, 2016 -- An article about a "temporary" 1936 house being demolished after 80 years was added to the news blog.

Read About It! July 19, 2016 -- Volunteers Potluck Picnic event added to the calendar page for Wednesday, August 24, 2016.

Read About It! June 24, 2016 -- Exhibit on Bandon was installed at the Coos County Fairgrounds Museum.

Read About It! June 11, 2016 -- A blog for the presentation on Bandon's Other Fire - the Fire of 1914 was added.

Read About It! June 2, 2016 -- An article about school class visits to the museum was added.

Read About It! May 29, 2016 -- The May 2016 Newsletter is now available.

Read About It! May 25, 2016 -- Information on new Executive Director Gayle Propeck Nix added.

Read About It! May 24, 2016 -- Thank you to BSA Troop 313 article added to museum news blog.

Positions Filled May 5, 2016 -- Information and employment application for 2016 Student Internships added.

Read About It! May 4, 2016 -- Comments by Board President Jim Proehl on the county historical fund tax measure added.

Read About It! Apr 29, 2016 -- Calendar updated to provide additional details on the June 11 presentation about the 1914 Bandon Fire.

Read About It! Apr 23, 2016 -- Article and photos of Judy Knox 20 Year Anniversary Celebration were added.

Go to Search! Apr 23, 2016 -- The ability to search the Museum website was added to the home page.

Read About It! Apr 23, 2016 -- Article about the City of Bandon and the Bandon Historical Society helping to digitize Bandon's historical newspapers.

Read About It! Apr 20, 2016 -- New exhibit on taverns in Bandon added. Comments added to blog.

Read About It! Apr 15, 2016 -- Two additional boxes of photographs and memorabilia donated to the museum.

Read About It! Apr 6, 2016 -- Article on Judy Knox, Executive Director, 20 year anniversary added.

Read About It! Mar 30, 2016 -- News about Western World's roll top desk and mystery locked drawer added.

Read About It! Mar 29, 2016 -- Coquille Tribe Grant and Bandon Western World donation article added.

Read About It! Mar 22, 2016 -- Gift Shop items and photographs have been updated. Take a look at what's new!

Read About It! Mar 3, 2016 -- Information page about educational, youth group and children visits to the Museum was added.

Read About It! Mar 2, 2016 -- Museum membership benefits information added, i.e. $10 discount on Oregon Historical Society membership.

Read About It! Feb 29, 2016 -- Story and photos of the Leap Day visit by Bandon Pacific Christian School added to the News Blog.

Read About It! Feb 27, 2016 -- Story and photos of the Members' Appreciation Day reception added to the News Blog.

Read About It! Feb 26, 2016 -- Information on how people find the Bandon Historical Society Museum website was added.

Read About It! Feb 25, 2016 -- Bandon's "Sons of the Beaches" article added.

Read About It! Feb 25, 2016 -- Austin Carrero's Eagle project serves the Museum and the Bandon School District news blog added.

Read About It! Feb 25, 2016 -- Bandon Western World donates photographic negatives to the Museum news blog added.

Read About It! Feb 21, 2016 -- Image of a 1913 advertisement for the Steamer Fifield added to the article

Read About It! Feb 19, 2016 -- "Did You Know..." link about the history of cheese production in Bandon added

Read About It! Feb 18, 2016 -- February 2016 Newsletter added

Read About It! Feb 18, 2016 -- "Horrific Logging Train Accident" story added

Read About It! Feb 16, 2016 -- "Wecoma Baths and Cottages" story added