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Here are a couple great shots of milling in Mineral, Wash., earlier in the early 1900s. You rarely get action shots, like this one of the log falling into the mill pond. Mineral got it’s start as a mining town. Prospectors came searching for gold and found coal and arsenic, which was both unfortunately and…
This pictures comes to me from the Christensen family. The information with the photo reads Mrs. Meredith and son. They ran the Eatonville Hotel. I’m not sure when they ran the hotel, but you can still see the steps that once lead to the two story hotel next to the bank. Thank you Christensens for…
This picture of Tina Christopher was taken in 1977. The picture and the following article ran March 5, 1977. “The Beth Adriel Christian community is trying to live a religious life like Mennonites and Amish while eking out an existence on a long-idle 40-acre farm near Eatonville. Life is primitive and simple as community members…
War fation books were common place during WWII. Here’s June (Duffy) Carney’s booklet. The Start of the Rationing By summer 1941 the Office of Price Administration believed,that with factories converting to military production and consuming many critical supplies, rationing would become necessary if the country entered World War II. It established a rationing system after the…
Here are a few pages from Clara Jensen’s autograph book. She was born January 2, 1883, and it looks like she started keeping it in her late teens and early 20s. History of autograph books “Traditionally they were exchanged among friends, colleagues, and classmates to fill with poems, drawings, personal messages, small pieces of verse,…
Shot of Center Street, July 18, 1971. This is the same year the Disneyland resort opened in Florida, and there was a poll taken that claimed 60% of people in the U.S. were against the Vietnam War. It was a time of contrast. Things were fairly peaceful that day in Eatonville. This is a press…
In 1915 the LaGrande dam went in and the pipeline was impressive. Here’s a cool shot from 1915. If you’d like to see more photos, just click HERE. Photo courtesy of the South Pierce County Historical Society. Click on image to enlarge.
This is a wonderful shot of the Aug. Suderburg store in Alder around 1930. (If you’d like to look inside, just click HERE.) The advertising on the front and side is nearly as interesting as the shot. Like the Washington company, Fisher’s Blend Flour, which opened for business June 1, 1911 on Harbor Island in…
With all the ongoing work on the Canyon Road right now, I thought it might be a good time to put up some early construction photos. The first shot is of team logging to make place for the road. The steam donkey is running, so the guys must have just taken a break for a…
Eatonville To Rainier 