Here’s an old envelope from 1921 to Julie Dougher c/o of the the Eatonville Hospital. Don’t know anything about Julie — whether she was a nurse or a patient. (If you have any information, please …
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Charles Boettcher and Nina Toni
The young couple, Charles Boettcher and his new wife Nina Toni, don’t look especially excited. Hopefully, it as just the jitters.
Charles (brother of Earnest Boettcher) was a logger and one of Alder’s pioneer families.
Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton.
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With the old Christensen’s store, (which also became the Sears store) being currently remodeled into a thrift store, this seemed like a good time to post this shot taken in 1942.
Alice Wingrove writes, “My parents …
We did a post a while back about the flag pole going up in 1914. Roni Johnson had an even better photo (from her family album) of the event. Here is Henry Christensen waiving from …
The Eatonville School District has come a long way in the last 100+ years. This was Eatonville’s first schoolhouse. You can find it today at Glacier View Park.
Here is some information about the little school house …
Joe Larin captured this group cleaning up at the Mashel Prairie Indian Cemetery Shaker Church. Anyone have any names?
The Indian Henry grave monument is there today in La Grande, Wash.
This isn’t something new to Eatonville. In …
People have been driving up to Mt. Rainier since the first car. Here’s a great shot of Nisqually visitor entrance , probably around 1920.
As you can see, not many things have change in the last …
The Tony’s were old Alder people . Ralph was Curtis’s age and very cross eyed there are many school photos of hin from alder and eatonville high,he graduated in 1918 one of the tony family still owns land in Alder at the junction of Alder cutoff and the Mt highway
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[…] Charlie (Charles) Beottcher was well known as a logger in the Alder area. Here’s shot of him moving logs. At the base of the pole you can see where he (or someone) has been splitting. There are a variety of splitting malls. […]