Articles in To The Present
This article ran in the Eatonville Dispatch , July 22, 1987. It’s about the George Dean home, the Swan Lake Dairy, Robert Fiander and more.
Courtesy of the Eatonville Dispatch.
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T. C. Van Eaton may be known as Eatonville’s founder. But what about his wife? Because everyone knows that behind every man there’s a great woman.
Meet that great women, Nellie Van Eaton. She’s pictured here …
A glimpse of Barneey’s in the 1970s. Today a gas station sits there — also named Barney’s, I think because they realized the local still called the spot Barney’s.
On Facebook, everyone started talking when these …
Years back Eatonville had a train depot — and I believe the bottom story is now the Country Real Estate building on the corner of Washington St. and Center St. But when it was still …
This picture was on the front page of the Dispatch in 1977. It wasn’t about Madora Dawkins‘ teaching, but the less-than-excited kids heading back to school after their summer vacation.
Paul Ford probably captured the feeling …
Thought you might like a look at this timeline for the Upper Nisqually Valley. Just click on it to enlarge.
Courtesy – Eatnoville History Project.
This articles ran in the Dispatch in 1975. It reads:
Pictured above are members of the Sliver Lake 4-H Club who last Monday began building a stone monument to Indian Henry. The grave site also was …
The Weyerhaeuser School was used for number of things, in addition to being a schoolhouse, off Highway 7 (340th & Mt. Hwy. E).
When the new school was built, this schoolhouse was “moved back to be …
The Ohop Grange Smorgasbords were a highly anticipated event for anyone with an appetite. Here are (left to right) Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Sikora, Velma Kjelstad, Mae Boyles, Zola Summer and Evelyn Guske preparing preparing for …
The Van Cleve Ford building stood on Mashell Ave. It was taken down a couple years back, but if had been standing on it in August of 1964, this is what you would have seen. This …
