FRANKFORT

Early Columbia River community near Portuguese Point (also called Barney's Point for Barney Gallagher who had a homestead there in 1876) in south central Pacific County.

Named by (James) Frank Bourn and Frank Scott in their own honor. Bourn and Scott purchased land around Portuguese Point, formed the Frankfort Land Improvement and Investment Company on April 30, 1890, and on May 5, filed a town plat "where fashionable people would walk the streets" and "where commerce and industry would prosper."

Frankfort had three golden years (1890-93). Land sales and boomtown development were brought to an end by the Panic of 1893. Frankfort survived until World War I but the plat was not vacated until 1952.

During its existence Frankfort was only accessible by water. The town had dozens of residential dwellings owned by fishermen, a land office, the Gannon Hotel, a newspaper (Frankfort Chronicle), school, store, saloon, and a post office established June 6, 1890 (closed Feb. 28, 1918).

The last person living in Frankfort died in 1964.