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Clay City used to be a booming industrial spot outside Eatonville, behind Ohop Lake. The thousands of bricks it produced will be around for years to come, but the city that never really was, will probably fade as a memory. Sitting on Clay At the turn on the century Clay City would probably have just…
This picture reads “Taken at Mr. Christy’s on a Sunday in 1900”. I don’t know a lot about this picture, but that it was probably taken around Ohop Valley that might be Anna Peterson in the front row with her hat in her lap. But who can’t love this photo — all the fun and…
June Carney wrote the following about the Edgerton School in 1999. The Edgerton Grade School was built in Ohop Valley in 1910. The teacher lved in a small cottage on the property and was paid a small wage. The families also gaver her fruits and vegetables that they grew. In 1932, my mother, sister and…
I thought maybe the date on this calendar was 1940 — since the phone number was MArket 7-6808. (In 1940 Glen Miller recorded Glenn Miller “PEnnsylvania 6-5000″, which was the telephone number for the Hotel Pennsylvania.) However, Don from Evergreen Equipment tells me it was around 1972. “Evergreen Equipment was started in 1956 by Harold…
The Elbe Union paper reported the following regarding School District #74 For the month ending June 12, 1896 Enrolled – 9 Days taught – 20 Days absent – .5 day Tardiness – 0 Percent in attendance – 99.70% Those neither absent nor tardy during the month were: Lee Comstock Georgia Comstock Otto Selle Clara Lutkens…
If you were to stop by the store in Elbe on August 12, 1896, here are prices tags you’d be looking at. Of course, the names of some of these items make you wonder what you’d be buying. Market Report from the Elbe Union Paper Creamery – 17 cents Calf – 17 cents Eggs – Strickly…
When the Thorvaldsons sold King’s Place in 1962, this was the list of inventory and prices. It says as much about what was sold in the restaurant as 1962. Image courtesy Margit Thorvaldson. Click on image to enlarge.
Judging by this photo, most the students at the Rainier School were girls. Some of the names are familiar — Orena King, Anna Anderson, Clara Van Eaton, and Laura King, among others. Per Carl Langberg, the school was in the middle of Stringtown Road. The first one burned in 1906 and a second was built.…
It’s hard to imagine Rainier Connect telling you today, “We don’t have lines out where you live. But, if you put them in yourself and rent our technology, we’ll make sure to take some off your phone bill.” But back in the early days of telephone, that’s more or less what happened. Per the History…
This little piece ran in the November, 1945 Eatonville Dispatch. The article is interesting because is talks about the Ashford public school. It must have been a rather small school though because the Home Economics class consisted of four girls: Evelyn Akers, Patricia Balch, Nadine Reese and Audrey Straws. Sewing in the 40s Interesting fact:…
This story, written by Sheryl Hegg, ran in The Dispatch on August 22, 1979 The name Jesse Dawkins inspires different recollections from different people in the area. People here in the 1940s remembered that Jesse Dawkins owned a restaurant outside Eatonville. Those herein the 1950s recall him as their friend neighborhood grocer. “He was a…
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