Article Archive for June 2012
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.
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I don’t know much about the Young & Cole Lumber Co., so if anyone has any information, please chime in. Martha Parrish told me there use to be a mill going out of Eatonville on Triangle …
In 1936 kids were selling subscriptions to the Eatonville Dispatch in hopes of winning a bike. The little guy pictured is my uncle, George Van Cleve, who would later run Van Cleve Motors. Unfortunately, he …
Torger Peterson purchased membership to The Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Company in 1906 for $2.00 (around $50 today).
Here’s a brief bit of the company’s history, which is still going strong today:
“In 1898 a group of Enumclaw, …
I just purchased this postcard on eBay. It’s a nice shot of Paradise Valley in 1909.
The other cool thing about this is the postage markings on the back, in particular that it reads Seattle World’s …
These 128-foot timber were milled at the Pacific National Lumber Company. It’s hard to get an idea of how really large 128-foot timbers are until you see these 40 people lined up on one.
The University …
Just a wonderful shot of Olava Kjelstad and two fawns. For those of you not familiar with Olava, she was one of the early pioneers of Ohop Valley, having come from Norway. She spearheaded the …
The information I was given with this photo was that it was taken outside Snow Hotel (now Eatonville Manor). The two men have taken down a black bear that sits between them. The man on …
This early shot of Eatonville shows a big of the downtown with Mount Rainier in the background.
Native American Legends
Native Americans saw mountains and male or female. It turns out that depending on the legend, Mount …
This isn’t the best shot of early Alder, but you can make out the main street made of wood, the first buildings and, of course, Alders first children.
Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton.
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