Damon in 1878 for a trading supply center whose dock extended into the Oyehut channel. He sold the southern portion of the peninsula to A.O. The first established white settler on the Point was Matthew McGee, who settled in the early 1860s. Later, Captain George Vancouver renamed the area Grays Harbor after Captain Gray. On May 7, 1792, Captain Robert Gray sailed into the bay and named the area Bullfinch Harbor. The Chinook, Chehalis, and Quinault tribes used the area, as well as others that now make up the Quinault Indian Nation. Long before the arrival of European explorers and settlers, the peninsula was used by the various local tribes for trading and other purposes. The City of Ocean Shores occupies the Point Brown peninsula on the Washington coast.
History Digging for razor clams on the beach The population was 6,715 at the 2020 census.
Ocean Shores is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States.
