“Calvin Tibbets: Oregon's First Pioneer” by Jerry Sutherland.

On Thurdsay, Feb. 23, History and Hops presents the story of Calvin Tibbets, an obscure stonemason who ventured to Oregon Country in 1832 with the goal of settling Oregon by Americans and making it part of the United States. The only Americans in Oregon before Tibbets had been explorers, fur trappers, scientists, and sailors. Tibbets’s perseverance set the stage for fellow Americans — first missionaries, then retiring mountain men, and finally wagon train pioneers — who eventually arrived in such great numbers that they overwhelmed all British claims to Oregon. Tibbets died soon after achieving his goal, and all that he had done to achieve it faded into the shadows of Oregon history.

Author Jerry Sutherland will focus on the Wahoni Milling Company, a grist mill located where Seaside now meets Gearhart which was created in 1845 by Tibbets and his neighbors Elbridge Trask, Tom Owens, William Perry, and Edward Williams. Sutherland will invite questions and attempt to bring history forward by placing historical landmarks on today’s landscape.

Sutherland spent two years scouring archives and visiting Tibbets’s haunts across Oregon, expanding on material collected by his father, Art Sutherland.

History and Hops is a free series of local history discussions hosted by the Seaside Museum on the last Thursday of each month at Seaside Brewing Co. Seaside Brewing Co. is located at 851 Broadway.

The Seaside Museum and Historical Society is a nonprofit educational institution with the mission to collect, preserve and interpret materials illustrative of the history of Seaside and the surrounding area. The museum is located at 570 Necanicum Drive, Seaside and is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.