In a time when we receive messages via email, Facebook and texting, “snail mail” seems a little old timey. In 1890 though, getting messages in and out of a frontier town was vital.
T.C. Van Eaton …

Here we see bricks being produced at Clay City in the early 1900s.
This shot was probably taken shortly after 1907 when The Far West Lumber Company formed the Far West Clay Company and opened the Clay …

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 …

Here are a few things you might know about the Eatonville Lumber Company, which operated in Eatonville from 1907 until 1954.
• Tacoma Eastern/Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad arrived in 1904 — followed by the …

This postcard gives you a snapshot of old Kapowsin in 1907. I’m not sure who wrote the card, but they seem pleased to be there.
It reads: Read your card a short time ago and was …

I’ll let these maps speak for themselves. The are of the survey maps for the Kjelstad Road (where a lot of the Nisqually Land Trust salmon work is going on today) and the Ohop Valley …

Noah Smith became one of the original settlers in Eatonville, when his folks and brothers moved here from North Carolina. But Noah was probably better known around town for being a professional boxer.
William D. Smith …

Today’s blog is by guest blogger Abbit Wonnacott. She is the author of Firm Foundation, The Formation of Eatonville, Wa., and you can view the entire book on her blog Early Eatonville, WA.
While researching early …

It’s hard to imagine that getting a washing machine was a picture-worthy event, but this washing machine was Eatonville’s first. Maren Christensen sits reading a book — no more scrubbing each piece of laundry by …

There was quite a bit going on in 1907: Houdini caused a sensation when he escaped from his chains underwater, the first taxi cab appeared in New York and UPS (United Parcel Services) started up …