Pestered by Plague: The U. S. Public Health Service Station in Astoria, OR and Knappton Cove, WA, from Cannery to Quarantine Station 1899-

The plague, not COVID-19, threatened Astoria, Oregon. The plague scare from 1899 to 1900 defined the work of a United States Public Health Service assistant surgeon tasked to establish a quarantine station at the mouth of the Columbia River.