The 3½ x 5½- inch, eight-page booklet, “North Beach, Washington” was published by the North Beach Push Club under the auspices of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company (the OR&N). That puts its publication date at sometime between 1900 and 1910 — the years that the OR&N owned the peninsula’s narrow-gauge railroad.

OYSTERVILLE — The History Forum on Wednesday, Dec. 4, will focus on Southwest Washington’s changing place names and vanishing towns. What is gained and what is lost in the process?

Forum participants are invited to bring their own questions (and answers, too) about how local names have changed and why. From Derbyville to the Fishing Rocks, the North Beach Peninsula to Fort Canby and Shoalwater Bay, names change, places disappear, streets are assigned standardized numbers and letters, heroes are honored and pioneers are forgotten. Who decides?

All are invited to join the discussion at the Oysterville Schoolhouse from 10 a.m. to noon two weeks from today.