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N. P. Christensen b0ught the Mashell Telephone Exchange from Dye and Biggs in 1912. Despite the fact that Mashell Ave. is dirt, this picture looks like it could have been taken yesterday. It wasn’t quite the booming business that it is today. In 1912 Eatonville only had 30 phones. Today you know the business better…
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 were in mourning. Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton. Click on image to enlarge.
There’s a reason you don’t see a lot of old bridges around here. They weren’t necessary built to stand the test of time. This was the bridge to Elbe in 1898. Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton. Click on image to enlarge.
Lloyd Sachs was famous for at least one thing — he was the first child born in Elbe. His father, Adam Sachs, settled in Elbe in the early 1890s. Before the railroad came to Elbe in 1902, Adam brought in, over the Mashell Mountain Road, the boiler and equipment for a sawmill. He began the…
The town of Ashford, Wash., was named after Walter Ashford in 1905. Here he is with this family at their homestead. Left to Right: Cora Hershey Ashford, Zinal, Emma, John and Walter. Mildred is standing in front. Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton and Charlotte Leschke. Click on image to enlarge.
For a little more recent history, here is EHS football player Brandon Jumper at the Kingbowl in 1985. The caption with this photo in the December 8, 1985 paper read: Eatonville fullback, Brandon Jumper (34) leaves three Cashmere players in his wake on this play in Yesterday’s Class A title game. Jumper gained 163 yards…
This photo ran in the paper in April 17, 1954, along with the following caption: Somber Monday: Ray Hiatt, a watchman gazed across [the] pond at the idle Eatonville Lumber Company, the town’s financial foundation. The mill’s owner doubts it will reopen, thus costing Eatonville a $750,000 payroll for 225 workers. If you would like…
The mill in Elbe (the Elbe Lumber and Shingle Company) was once a large operation. It was located a mile north of Elbe and from this picture you can see the rail coming in and out, and also men at work on a platform. In September 1922 a fire started under the planing mill of…
This is a muddy photo of a muddy Mashell Ave. in the early 1900s. The Methodist Churh, which is still standing today is on the left. The Red Men Hall is on the right. “The Nisqually Tribe of Red Men was the town’s oldest fraternal order. “It’s charter dated November 1, 1903, The national order…
Here we see the stage coaches that took people from Eatonville to Tacoma. “The two wagons in the center are T. C. Van Eaton’s stage coaches and one of the men standing by it is T.C.,” says T.C.’s grandson, Pat Van Eaton. “The location was a stopping point — what is now Elk Plain. T.C.…
Eatonville To Rainier 