Tag: Eatonville Lumber company camp

Eatonville Lumber Company Camp
Eatonville Lumber Company Camp

Lumber camps were common in the early 1900s. Here’s a shot of the Eatonville Lumber Company camp. Some of the trees in this show are bigger around than the smaller rail cars.

If you were a logger you would eat and sleep here. But I hear tell that the food was fabulous. It took a lot of calories (approximately 8,000 per man) to keep everyone going strong.

Photo courtesy of the University of Washington Library, photo collection.

Click on image to enlarge.