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Garibaldi is a city in Tillamook County, Oregon, on Tillamook Bay, whose motto is Oregon's Authentic Fishing Village.

As of the 2020 census, Garibaldi had a population of 830 and 409 households, with a median age of 57.3 years.

Daniel Bayley was the first white property owner on this part of Tillamook Bay, and as the area's first postmaster in 1870 he named the post office after his hero, Giuseppe Garibaldi, who had helped unify Italy that same year.

The indigenous Tillamook people lived along the Oregon coast, including Tillamook Bay, for about 12,000 years, and the Lewis and Clark expedition recorded in 1806 that 2,400 Tillamook people resided on the coast, but by 1930 only 22 indigenous people remained in all of Tillamook County.

Garibaldi's first school, Hobson School, was built in 1896, a new high school opened in 1926 so students no longer had to attend secondary school in Bay City, and in 1954 the north Tillamook County high schools were consolidated as Neah-Kah-Nie High School.

The Whitney mill opened in 1921, and its tall smokestack, built by the Hammond Company in 1927 and 1928, is all that remains of it today.

Garibaldi was incorporated as a city in 1946, and during the 1950s its population rose to over 1,500 with the construction of two large mills, the Oceanside Lumber Company and the Oregon-Washington Plywood Corporation, the latter of which closed in the late 1970s.

The Weyerhaeuser hardwood mill at the Port of Garibaldi was acquired in 2011 by a New York-based company and has operated as Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. since then.

The city covers 1.37 square miles, of which 0.98 square miles is land and 0.38 square miles is water.

The Garibaldi Maritime Museum stands in the city, and a statue of Captain Robert Gray outside the museum, depicting Gray standing on a sacred box with Haida designs, was the subject of a 2020 proposal for removal over claims about his treatment of indigenous people.