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They don’t make bridges like this anymore. This primitive bridge in Elbe was built on a single, enormous tree. That particular piece of a bridge — if I’m understanding bridge design correctly — is called a deck. Picture courtesy of Pat Van Eaton. Click on image to enlarge.
It’s my Eatonville class of 1981’s reunion today. Since we’re a small piece of the community’s history, I thought I’d share a few photos. We were an amazing group of kids full of energy and untapped potential. Today we’re even more amazing adults. I’m proud to say I was part of the class of ’81.…
Who says you need fancy hiking gear for climbing around on glaciers. These women were doing it wearing dresses and carrying nothing more than walking sticks around 1910. The woman in the white hat is Marie Lutkens Drussel. Her dad Henry Lutkens, an original settler in Elbe, who helped build the Lutkens Hotel with Chas.…
Robert Fiander, born 1847, was 71 years old when this passport was issued to visit his sisters in the British Isles. Detailed Passport Passports in the early 1900s were a bit more detailed than today. Notice at bottom, left hand corner, the passport includes a hand written physical description — including the shape of face…
Eatonville cheerleaders and drill teams have been cheering on their teams for decades. No matter whether it’s football, basketball or wrestling you’ll find pom poms and a lot of spirit. Here’s a glimpse of the cheerleaders in 2007, 1980, and the 1940s. Photos courtesy of Eatonville yearbooks. Click on images to enlarge. …
Today’s blog is by guest blogger Abbit Wonnacott. She is the author of Firm Foundation, The Formation of Eatonville, Wa., and you can view the entire book on her blog Early Eatonville, WA. While researching early Eatonville history, I have come to admire many of our early citizens. The Dean/Fiander family has become very near…
Carl Boettcher arrived in Alder in 1895. Carl was the brother-in-law of Henry Lutkens. Carl brought his wife and six children. Unfortunately, Carl’s wife died just two year later. The family was living in a small shack and neighbors got together and built him a hewed cedar log house. The Boettchers have been active part…
Paul Haynes built the hotel for Frank Groe in 1892 on the south corner of Mashell Avenue and Groe Street. It was then called the Pioneer Hotel. The 20 x 40 building, with eight bedrooms, was constructed solely of split cedar boards, nailed up and down onto a frame of hewed poles. There wasn’t a…
Margaret Catherine King became known simply by the Eatonville community as Ma King. She was born November 10, 1853, in Blue Ridge, Henderson, NC. She and her husband John Dillard King moved out to the Silver Lake area in 1889 and raised their family. Before coming to Eatonville, the Kings lived for a while in…
This shot just makes me smile. Summer day. Kids enjoying the sun. The sign on the Eatonville Theater reads there’s a show tonight. And the Methodist Church bell is just waiting to be rung. I also like this picture because the kids are sitting on the grass almost where there is a grassy new lawn at…
Eatonville is no stranger to earthquakes. One that left lasting memories shook the place up on April 13, 1949. At 11:52 am the town started rocking and rolling. Many recall the cement streets rolling like waves. Margit Thorvaldson says she was in the grocery store at the time and it took her a moment to…
The first Eatonville High School graduate was Ed Christensen. The photo says he graduated in 1914 — the same year the first red-green traffic light was used and Edgar Rice Burroughs published Tarzan of the Apes. Ed Christensen would go on to fight in WW1. On September 12, 1919 Eatonville gave a “Welcome Home” for…
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