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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C. Boettcher log pond in Alder, Wash.
This picture is entitled “C. Boettcher log pond head works, Alder, Wa.”.
The pond and the logs may not seem all that impressive at first glance, but look closely. There is a man standing on one of the logs to give you some scale. Many of these trees are massive!
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 …
Charlie Boettcher’s “pond” must have relocated or changed considerably by the 1940-50’s. I remember swimming in his “pond” during those years on trips our family took from Bremerton, where we lived, to ‘the Carlson farm”, our family’s farm.
I think this was taken in the early 1900’s, when the pond wasn’t used much as a swim hole. 🙂
This pond was formed behind this 1st Alder Dam aka “the head works”This lake was very small compared to the Alder Lake now.
Thanks for this!!