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The first school built was the Swan Lake School, #40, and measured about 16′ x 24′ . The following is taken from Timber Town and Later: The school was “made of rough boards” from Tominson’s Mill at Hart’s Lake. It had windows on each side, a split cedar shake roof, a plank floor, and “a…
This photo, courtesy of Martha Parrish and Pat Van Eaton, is of the Eatonville Lumber Company store at around 1916. The Eatonville mill had a good run — in operation from 1896 until it closed up in 1954. Interesting Fact: The subway systems in New York City used timber from the Eatonville mill. Although the…
This picture seems appropriate as Eatonville gets prepared to repave Mashell Ave. this summer. The crows is assembled outside Eatonville State Bank (now Key Bank) as they leveled Marshell. Looks like it was an effort by all judging by the number of shovels in hand. Photo: Courtesy Pat Van Eaton Click on photo enlarge.
This blaze started because someone wanted to burn the saloon. The man missed his target and lit G. B. Ingersoll’s hardware store on fire. Dynamite The amazing part of this story is that there was dynamite kept n the back of the hardware store. An eye witness said it was the Japanese citizens of Eatonville…
I love this picture. It’s Center Street in around 1897. Notice to the right, you can see the Van Eaton house that sits above the medical billing center today. Click on the photo to enlarge and see all the amazing detail. Photo courtesy Pat Van Eaton.
The Canyada Lodge, in La Grande, was designed by Heath and Gove and opened around 1912. John L. McMurray — a Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney — built the lodge or $92,500. (This first picture, courtesy of Rich Williams, show it during construction. And I think those are goats on the hillside.) Visitors on their way to…
If you spent any part of your childhood in Eatonville, you fished at the Kids’ Pond. For almost 60 years, kids have stood shoulder to shoulder on the opening day of fishing season, casting their lines — half the time hooking a tree branch or a nearby kid — to get their limit of trout.…
I don’t know much about this photo, except what was written on the back. Since the horses appear to have hats on and there are flags on the front ot he wagon, I’m guessing these folks are ready for a Eatonville 4th of July parade. (And obviously being politically correct wasn’t an issue back then.)…
Eatonville had a championship basketball team from 1914-1918. The first image shows a team that has just won its first season, with no idea they are headed for a streak. The team was pretty small — not a lot of room for someone out with an injury. As the pictures progress you see some of…
Home making was the domain of women. (Between 1938-39 only 1 percent of boys took home economics.) This home economics room looks practically like a science lab with its glass table tops, scales, books and charts. Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton. Click to enlarge photo.
These are great shots of the Elbe bridge taken around 1915. In the first photo, the building next to the bridge is Levi Engel’s blacksmith shop. Levi would have been an interesting guy to know. He was also a photographer, Elbe’s justice of the peace, and edited the Elbe Union for a time. In the…
It was 1959, Ben-Hur was a box office smash, Bonanza premiered, and the Soviets sent up the Lunik II, which is the first man-made object to his the surface of the moon. But back in Eatonville, something REALLY big was going on — their 50th anniversary. This is the program from the festivities. They had…
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