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Eatonville residents were quick to build the town, but slow to put together a fire department. The first fire department wasn’t organized until 1933 after the Sabourin Building burned. The two-story Sabourin building caught fire in the middle of the night and Eatonville residents rushed over with the hose cart on buggy wheels, unrolled the…
It was a cold winter at the Jensen family farm (outside Eatonville). I don’t think I ever remember icicles that big. June (Duffy) Carney and her son John Carney are bundled up for the snowy weather. Images courtesy of the Carney family. Click on images to enlarge.
The 1920 Eatonville High School girls’ basketball team posed outside the high school for this shot. Left to right: Ida Hedborg, Louise Hekel, Anna Hotes, Ann Erickson, Emma Coffman and Nettie Conrad. Photo courtesy of Carl Linden. Click on image to enlarge.
Check out this line up of new automobiles parked outside the Eatonville Lumber Company (ca. 1925). Photo courtesy of Rich and Ruthie Williams. Click on image to enlarge.
The Eatonville Lumber Company was in operation until the 1950s and a major employer of the town. Here is one of the company’s locomotives taking trees from the nearby forests. Pat Van Eaton says (below), “The Class C 70-3 Shay locomotive #3053 was built in Lima, Ohio, February 20, 1920 for the Eatonville Lumber Company.…
This 1919 Canyada Brochure speaks for itself. If you were lucky enough to stay here, rates were $2.50 ($57.50 today) a night, or $12.00 ($276 today) for the week. Double occupancy and you could stay for $10.00 ($230.00 today) a week. Dinner was .75 or you could get the speak Chicken dinners were $1.00 ($23.00…
Clark Kinsey captured here the sizable logs being transported by rail to the Mineral Lake Lumber Co. (purchased by West Fork Timber Co. in 1927). In fact, you can see the company sign way in the background. Judging by the stacks going in the back, the air in Mineral is fresher today. Interesting fact about…
Mineral used to be quite a logging town with a mill on the lake. This picture of the Mineral Lake Lumber Company has a little of everything — the mill in operation, men standing on stacks of lumber, cabins in the back, and even what may be outhouses down in front. Photo courtesy of Linda…
The Canyada Lodge in La Grande offered a top notch getaway for those headed up to the Rainier National Park in the early 1900s. This advertisement is geared to get your mouth watering: “We boast of our home cooking. All meals are served family style. Our fried “Chicken Dinners,” with hot biscuits and country gravy,…
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 Stewart. Click on image to enlarge.
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 Alder, on October 26, 1912. The Odd Fellow started in England in 1688. The Odd Fellow’s duty is “to visit…
Eatonville Theater was alive and well in 1917. The photos reads: L-to-R, Frank Van Eaton, Norma Norwood, Jackson Fairbann and Mack Van Eaton. If someone could verify those folks, please let me know, because I don’t think that’s Frank Van Eaton. Showing this night was A Romance of the Redwoods starting Mary Pickford. It was as…
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