First settled in the 1890's, Copalis and the beach of the same name, have become famed as the "Home of the razor clam."

The fame seems justified. The community sits near the northern end of probably the greatest razor clam bed in the world. for the flavor renowned variety abounds, apparently only in the Pacific Northwest, and particularly on Copalis Beach. During the commercial season, Copalis' normal population of about 350 persons, leaped four-fold.

During 1947 and 1948, commercial diggers took more than a million pounds of bi-valves from Copalis Beach, earned themselves approximately $200,000.00 and brought huge additional sums to cannery men and workers. Tourists dug thousands of pounds more.

But the clam is not Copalis' only drawing card. The beach is ideal for bathers, and motorists can drive their cars along miles of hard packed sand. In fact, before the highway came, all supplies were shipped by boat to Oyehut and hauled to Copalis over the same beach.

The long beach has embraced, during the past half century, the hulls of dozens of ships, ranging from four-masted schooners to steel freighters, after they were driven ashore by Pacific storms.