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I never met Lena and John Malm, but I feel like I’ve known them all my life. My grandparents, Louie and Anna Mettler, purchased their dairy in Ohop Valley the 40s. My folks, Louie and Kathy Mettler, built on the land in the early 1960s and the dairy continued into the 70s. Today my folks…
Logging was vital to Eatonville form the very beginning. Here are a few pictures covering seven decades of logging. Photo #1: This first picture was taken September 1902, and the log is headed off for the Eatonville Saw Mill. (The men might have hit the Brewery behind the hotel afterwards.) Photo #2: I’m not sure…
The caption that went with this photo was “First tree cut in Eatonville location near Depot”. Judging by the trees that have been felled around it, it wasn’t the first. But it was definitely a big one and one of the first. The photo below shows the same spot and the Depot in 1918 —…
I found this great photo of the Lake View Hotel, which looks like it was a great place to stay on your way to Rainier. Judging by the cars, the picture was taken around the late teens. Does anyone know anything about this hotel? Let me know. Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton. Click on…
This picture looks like a mill that was built yesterday, but the Elbe Lumber and Shingle Mill was built back in 1904 when the Tacoma Eastern Railroad made it all the way up to Elbe. In fact, you can see the tracks coming right up the door. The mill was owned by Robert Patton Sr.,…
In 1935 a timberworker’s strike was called and all the mills and camps around Eatonville closed down. Mineral was a hotbed of uncompromising striking and a man was shot on Main Street during a bitter demonstration against workers of the North Fork Logging Company. Someone put dynamite in Russell Krones’ car on August 6. The…
It wasn’t just average 4th of July parade. This one was different — it commemorated the laying of the cornerstone of new school. This school would turn out to be something special and make the headlines in papers around the country. Looking down Mashell Ave. you can see the top of the Methodist Church and people lining…
Eatonville may have only had a dirt roads and a few street lights in in 1912, but it still had culture. Sofie Hammer, a Norwegian singer, came to town and entertained folks nearly 100 years ago. She was called the Nightingale of the North. Photos courtesy of the Taylor family. Click on images to enlarge.…
This week is the first week of classes for Eatonville students. I thought it might be a good time to show some of the cherry students headed back to school 70 years ago. Photos courtesy of the Taylor family. Click on images to enlarge. …
This piece was written by Rich Williams on March 6, 2011, shortly after the Ford building was torn down on Mashell Ave. Eatonville saw a piece of their history demolished this week. The old Van Cleve Motors building had been part of Eatonville’s landscape for over eighty years. Like many other commercial enterprises in this…
Folks are gathered here in the Ohop Grange for Christmas dinner, probably around 1926 when the building went up. The Ohop Grange was chartered October 24, 1924, and has been active every since. The first meetings were held at the Edgerton Schoolhouse until the grange was constructed. The members built it themselves for only $650…
Eatonville To Rainier 