[2] Randolph was originally located about three miles to the northwest near the current Whiskey Run Beach, where it was a "black sand" gold mining boomtown in the 1850s.

[1][3] Today that boomtown is a ghost town because there are no significant structures left at the site, but the community on the Coquille River has several homes and a historic cemetery.

[10] A somewhat different account of relations between the Nasomah and the miners appears in Verne Bright's "Randolph: Ghost Gold Town of the Oregon Beaches".

In this account, some of the mutual antagonism stemmed from a fight in 1851 in which the Nasomah attacked twelve white men traveling along the Coquille River by canoe, killing eight of them.

This incident, Bright says, was preceded by two decades during which white sailors and settlers infected many Nasomah and other Tututni with Old World diseases, usurped their hunting and fishing grounds, and generally treated them with cruel disrespect.