It’s Easter morning and I couldn’t find any Eatonville Easter pictures, but the maybe this spring day in Old Alder will do. Typical Washington, sunny day and you still need an umbrella.
The pictures is of …

Who would have guessed that I would learn about Annie (Mensik) Turner’s story about coming to America from Lien Vloeberghs, a historical researcher at the Red Star Line Museum, which will be opening its doors …

Here’s a map of old Alder, before the dam and buildings had to be relocated. It not only shows where the buildings were but also who lived in them or owned them.
Photo courtesy of Randy …

This shot was taken of the old Alder before it was moved when the dam when in. As the caption states: “This is a district meeting of the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) in …

I’ve always wondered what Alder looked like before the dam and the town was moved. Thanks to Randy Stewart, we have a photo of the small town. And best of all, the buildings are easy …

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. …

Arthur Fyfe (brother of Andrew Fyfe) is here in with a few girlfriends in Alder, probably in the early 1900s. It’s a playful picture,  but the black Victorian gloves the girls are wearing meant they …

How cool was George Boettcher, sitting on one of the first motorcycle in downtown Alder, Wash.
These bikes are collectors now. Here’s a shot of what one of the first Harley Davidson’s looked like around 1903.
For a …

It was March, 1960, and Eatonville resident, Mrs. Kenneth Trummert, was about to start one of the largest manhunts ever conducted in Washington.
The Dispatch reports that, “. . . she identified a stranger in the …

This pictures ran in a 1989 edition of the Dispatch. The caption reads:
Logging quickly became the main industry in the area, supporting a number of mills in Eatonville, Alder, Elbe, Ashford, National and many other …