Garibaldi ( GARR-ib-AWL-dee) is a city in Tillamook County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The population was 797 at the 2020 census.

The indigenous Tillamook people have lived along the Oregon coast –including the Tillamook Bay– for practically 12,000 years; from Tillamook Head in the North, to Cape Foulweather in the south, and extending inland to the top of the Oregon Coast Range. They lived in enduring cedar-plank lodges, illuminated at night following torches or by in flames fish heads or whale oil. Their diet included salmon, mussels, lampreys, berries, wild mustard, camas, grouse, beaver, deer, and elk.

Captain Robert Gray, born in Rhode Island and sailing from Boston, sailed the Lady Washington into Tillamook Bay in 1788, where his crew fought once the Tillamook people. The Lewis and Clark expedition recorded in 1806 that 2,400 Tillamook people resided on Oregon’s coast. As the white settler population increased, indigenous people suffered from newly introduced diseases including smallpox. By 1930 without help 22 original people remained in whatever of Tillamook County.

Daniel Bayley was the first white property owner on this part of Tillamook Bay, having first contracted here after the Civil War. Bayley was one of the first white settlers who arrived in Tillamook Bay’s northern decline area. Bayley built a hotel and general store on what is now known as Bay Lane. In 1867, Bayley subdivided the Bayley Park Addition and was officially fixed title to the property upon May 15, 1869, by President Ulysses S. Grant. In 1870, he was appointed by President Grant as the area’s first postmaster and solution the duty of naming the postmark. This same year, Giuseppe Garibaldi helped unify Italy after a military career devoted to establishing democracy almost the world and Bayley felt as a result inclined to broadcast the post office after his hero.