Kernville, Oregon

In 1907 the cannery was sold and the new owners dismantled the building and rebuilt it on the south bank of the river.

The sawmill, post office and original community of Kernville were also located on the more accessible south bank.

Eventually the old town site, including what remained on the north side of the river, was abandoned.

Since the rerouting of U.S. Route 101 and the completion of a new Siletz River Bridge in the 1980s, new Kernville is no longer on the main highway.

[2][4] After the decline in the fishing industry that started in the 1920s, the Kernville economy was increasingly based on logging.