Foothills Historical Society VILLAGE VOICES

A Publication of the Foothills Historical Society and Museum

Apr-Jun 2021 Photo by Liz Anderson

FHS Board 2020-2022 TAHOMA, TACOMA OR RAINIER President: Gene Robertson “The mountain is out!” always lifts our spirits. The beautiful vista of the snow Vice President: covered volcano is always a delight. It is hard to imagine that it is only Kay Skogen sleeping…not extinct. This dynamic geologic feature of the northwest has Secretary: always played into the cultural heritage of the local inhabitants. A recent Chloe Mickelson Treasurer: newscast reported the continued work by native peoples to return Jean Contreras the mountain its rightful name, Tahoma. Translations vary according to who you ask. Some sources say it means “The Great Snow” or “Snow Peak”. Native Board Members words don’t always translate easily into English. David Grifn Dave Battey Per Wikipedia: was first known by the local Salishan speakers as Sue McCluskey Talol, Tacoma, or Tahoma. One hypothesis of the word origin is [təˡqʷuʔbəʔ] 'mother of waters' in the language spoken by the . Advisors: [10] The linguist William Bright gives the origin as Salish [11] Martha Olsen pronunciation: [təqʷúbə] 'snow-covered mountain'. Another hypothesis is that Tacoma means "larger than Mount Baker" in Lushootseed: Ta 'larger', plus John Hilding Koma (Kulshan), (Mount Baker).[12] Other names originally used include Doris Maris Tahoma, Tacobeh, and Pooskaus Nancy Stratton In 1792 a British Naval officer, Captain George Vancouver, went on a naming Board Meetings: 1st spree, naming the sound he “discovered” after his junior officer, Puget, and the Tuesday-11:00 am mountain after a friend, Rear Admiral Peter Rainier. On 1804-1806 Lewis and 130 N River Avenue Clark Expedition maps the mountain was identified as Mt. Regniere. In 1892 Buckley, WA 98321 when Washington became a state, the mountain needed a name for the official PO Box 530 map. The national Geographic Board chose Rainier. In 1924, the US Congress Buckley, WA 98321 tried to get it renamed Tacoma. In Jan 2014 it was briefly named Mt Seattle Tel: (360) 829-1291 Seahawks.

Website: Pierce County communities had their own ideas. In 1902 the Orting Oracle foothillsmuseum.org reported a fishing party that explored “Mt Orting”. After moving to Puyallup, a Email foothillsmuseum@ resident wrote that he now realized it should be named Mt Puyallup. In John cityofbuckley.com Williams book, The Mountain That Was God, he apologized for using the hybrid FB: Mt Rainier-Tacoma. Visitors inquire about visiting the Tacoma glaciers. Who foothillshistoricalmuseum should decide? What would you name the mountain? Stay tuned. Instagram #foothillsmuseum

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•. Dedicated to history of northeastern section of Pierce County including Buckley and Greenwater, as well as the towns of the Carbon River Corridor (Burnett, Carbonado, South Prairie, and Wilkeson. •. Historic sites of Crocker, Fairfax, Hucklechuck, Marion, Manley Moore, Melmont, Montezuma, Pittsburgh (Spiketon) are also included .

HERITAGE NEWS • A big thank you to Charmaine Jovanovich-Miller for all her hard work organizing the Cemetery History Walk. This year she also honored Buckley Mayors and set up a Buckley Time Line. Some FHS members went over to assist during the 3 day event. • Daisey Kirtley who died in 1886 was honored with the installation of her recently found marker in her family plot. More on pg 4

President’s Message: Gene Robertson •. Our heartfelt thanks to the Building Committee which has been hard at work getting Buckley Hall ready for the Heritage Center. They are now FHS TO-DO LIST 2021 working on getting the annex along the alley ready to house part of Museum collections. •. The museum docents opened up for regular hours These are the projects that are not covered by our cost- beginning July 1, with some new volunteers. share agreement with City of Buckley. This creates Always room for more. opportunities for volunteers and professionals, who will be willing to help as in-kind service or discounted fees. •. We will have our first fund raiser, a yard sale, July 30 on museum grounds. Please preprice any donations and bring to museum the day before the Large Projects sale. •. Security lights in Farm Shed (done) •. Our thanks to Trinity construction and the City • Replacing log chinking-Log Cabin employees for the completion of Buckley Hall work •. Finishing inside of new storage areas, Buckley Hall on main rooms. (Going out to bid) •. David Griffith’s great donation of security • Painting second floor trim and facia-Main Museum lighting has been installed by electrician Bob Building (May be done by city) Harding in Farm Shed, who also donated his time. • Painting first floor trim-Main Museum Building • Installing built-in office counters, desks and storage shelving-Buckley Hall • Coming Events Small Projects July 30 Friday • Installing bike rack Yard Sale -Buckley Museum •. Preparing Collections to move into new building 130 N River 10-4 (ongoing) July 31 Saturday •. Training new volunteers ongoing Wilkeson Day/Handcar Races •. Parade at 10 am If you are interested in helping on any of these projects, please email us at [email protected] •. Hand Car Races at 1 pm or leave us a message on Facebook Check their Facebook page for foothillshistoricalmuseum or tel: 360-829-1291. For Wilkeson Booster Club more information on any of these projects, you may September 18/19 Weekend email Jean Contreras at [email protected]. Buckley Log Show •. Parade at 11:00

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FHS Heritage Capital Project grant for a heritage center is finally becoming a reality. Work has been finished on the main portion of Buckley Hall. This partition was built to create much needed office space for FHS. Two doors on the back wall open to storage areas. More work needs to be done on each to create appropriate archival spaces.

The original foyer outside the office area has had changes that were required to meet code. It made the room smaller, but could not be helped. It will be a nice place to have meetings, programs and workshops. We will be sharing this space with the public as it can be reserved and rented for receptions, parties, etc. Our office can be locked. Third picture is of the gallery formed by closing off one opening between former porch and foyer. City sees this as a gathering area for reception desk, small conversation tables with chairs. A gallery of historical photos may be added to wall.

FHS was awarded a Pierce Co Historic Restoration grant of $2500 to defray cost of creating archival storage space in the new office area. It is going to be a challenge to design and create the shelving and cabinets necessary. The space may only accommodate two desks. However, for larger temporary projects we can set up work space in the foyer for a day. The main hall has already hosted the Ida Marge Bazaar last month.

Our volunteers are excited about continuing the work of preserving the history of the area in more spacious working conditions. If interested, please contact us by messaging through website http://foothillshistoricalmuseum.org, Facebook.com/foothillshistoricalmuseum or leave message at 360-829-1291. 3 Foothills Historical Society

New Signage for FHS Logging Camp in Park

Two recently installed historical information stations were made possible by a $2500 WA Humanities CARE grant, part of the pandemic relief package. Ron and Leo’s Welding and RK Graphics of Enumclaw took on the job of creating the frames and signage for the Lookout Tower and Steam Donkey. Bryson Kane and Jean Contreras designed the layouts. Gene Robertson had to dig out a pile of stones to make holes deep enough for the footings. A third sign is planned for the Lester bunkhouse, saw shop, the log cabin and blacksmith shop.

Daisey Kirtley Story: Lost and Found

Daisey Kirtley Early this year FHS was asked by Greater Bonney Lake Historical ( April 10, 1878 — March 13, 1886) Society for information on a member of the Kirtley family,

Inscripton: homesteaders displaced by project. A small gravestone “Rest litle Daisey, was found in the woods in the vicinity of Mazatlan Restaurant of a in happiness rest. Mingling with angels we know. child named Daisey Kirtley, who died in 1886. Our research Thou art blest.” discovered that her family had moved from Kentucky to Missouri This gravestone is one of the few things that remain as an imprint where she was born in 1878. Her father, James L Kirtley, filed a of Daisey’s life here on earth. homestead in a section of the Pierce County plateau in 1885. It is not

Daisey was an 8 year old litle girl known why she died at age 8 or where she was buried. We do know when she died — she loved people and they loved her. Her mother that the Kirtleys sold the homestead and moved to Marion (Buckley) and father had it engraved in stone area in 1900, when Stilleys moved to Okanagen, WA. The Stilley/ 135 years ago — so we can stll see it today. Kirtley farm is across from the Haugan Dairy. On June 26 Weeks Funeral Home placed the stone in the Buckley Cemetery by the large Daisey’s parents, James & Mary Kirtley, and several of Please join us! her relatves, are buried in the Buckleymarker Cemetery forand the Kirtley Family. Mrs. Augusta Shearer Kirtley lived on the homestead where she raised her have been in our care for many years. We believe it is Saturday, June 26th, 2021 10am ftng for Daisey to be there too, —withchildren her family. by her first marriage and a daughter by Buford Kirtley. Buford, his brother and parents on the

marker. The EnumclawWeeks’ Funeral Home &Courier Buckley City Cemetery Herald published articles about Daisey by Alex Bruell. https:// On behalf of the City of Buckley, the Kirtley Family, 451 Cemetery Rd. and through our trusted partnerships with both the Buckley, WA 98321 www.courierherald.com/news/how-a-gravemarker-found-in-the-woods-in-bonney-lake-led-to-a-century-360.829.1171 Greater Bonney Lake & Foothills Historical Societes, — we are honored to help facilitate thisspanning-detective-story/ “reunion”. Please join us for this commemoratve setng of Daisey Kirtley’s gravestone —Saturday, June 26, 2021 4 at 10am.

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MANLEY MOORE MILL-ARLINE

In about 1900 Orville Biggs built a sawmill at Arline. This same sawmill was later used by the Manley-Moore Lumber Company from 1907-1910, Robert D. Moore being part owner of the newly formed operation. He was partnered with J.E. Manley and August Von Boecklin, but only Moore lived at Arline and oversaw the operation. This same sawmill was then bought by Merrick-Robb Lumber Co. and ran by them from 1910-1915. Many company houses were built here for the loggers. Robert D. Moore was born in China in 1878. His father was Marshall Moore, a tea merchant in China for some years. Robert attended the University of Minnesota and had been a civil-engineer for the Great Northern Railroad. He married Eleanor Von Bodenstedt, in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1907 and the couple then came to Washington State. That same year he went into partnership with Manley and Von Boecklin. He went to live at Arline and oversaw the mill operation while his partners took care of the financial dealings from an office in Tacoma. J.E. Manley was born in Wisconsin, in 1876. He attended the University of Minnesota's law school and graduated in 1899. He later went to Washington and opened up a law practice in Seattle. He married a lady named Rose Henriot in 1904 in Tacoma. Not much was known about the other partner Von Boecklin. You can find a great deal more about the company and its operations, as well as more family history on Moore, in a book called "Carbon River Coal Country" by Nancy Irene Hall. Many pictures are also included here. It is also interesting to note that Andy Yotsko, an Arline schoolboy, later went to work for Manly-Moore Lumber Company. Some of this Yotsko family still exists in the Sumner, WA area. Also, a town was named Manley-Moore on the upper Carbon River area where their company operated until 1929, "the depression", which ended the market for lumber. Manley-Moore had many outstanding debts and were forced to sell the company to a Mr. Gailbraith from the Eatonville Lumber Company. They were a very highly thought of and respected outfit in this area as they treated their workers generously and kindly. Source: Cherie Kuranko, A History of Arline Note: Carbon River Coal Country is available at the Foothills Historical Museum in Buckley. $44.95 + tax

Master Builder of Manley Moore, Fairfax

David and Amy T Collins are the grandparents of Bill Davis, born in Fairfax. (See last issue about Bill.) David was a master mechanic who built the Manley Moore Mill at Upper Fairfax. It is unique as the yard is built on pilings over a swampy area. The yard used a rolling crane to move the lumber as the structure could not support an engine. The canyon walls were so steep level land was scarce. The company also had to use two incline railways to transport logs down to the mill from the logging sites. The railroad lines ran a few feet from the front porches of the homes and company buildings on the banks of the Carbon River.

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“Orville Biggs went to Alaska in 1896 and found more gold than he ever dreamed possible, he'd struck it rich in the Klondike! In 1897, the same year Orville Biggs arrived in Seattle, the ship Portland landed in Seattle with a ton of Alaskan gold carefully stowed away beneath the decks. The first news of the gold rush hit the papers and turned Seattle into the "Gateway to Alaska" practically overnight. The Klondike Gold Rush was on!”— Cherie Kuranko, Bygone Days of Arline

Orville, son of a California pioneer, a clerk, bookkeeper, accountant most of his adult life, scouted out a location and built Arline (Lumber) Mills near the location marked by the street sign upper left. The 1900 census states he is Secretary/Treasurer of Arline Mills. In 1904 he became ill and traveled to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN for treatment. He passed away soon after arrival, leaving a wife and two daughters, Arline and Louise.

In 1912 Arline graduated from Smith College and came home to Tacoma. In 1914 she married Edgar Nathaniel Gott. Mr Gott, a Boeing cousin, was an aircraft engineer, who invented the air-cooled engine for bi-planes. which allowed them to fly low as crop dusters. He went on to become an executive for Boeing, Faulker and Consolidated aircraft companies, taking his family all over the US.

Arline and Edgar had two children: John Edgar and Stephanie. John went into the aircraft industry like his father. The family returned to San Diego in the 1930’s. Arline moved to a ranch in the California high desert near Palmdale. While she was recovering from surgery, she had to return to a Pasadena hospital where she passed away in 1939. The irony of this story is that when the street sign was first installed, it read “Airline”. Later it was corrected. Arline Mills was sold to Manley Moore, who later sold it and built the Manley Moore mill in Upper Fairfax.

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A DREAM FULFILLED

John Hilding, Wilkeson artist, worked 7 years to fulfill his dream of a skate park in the shape of a skillet of bacon and eggs. In April he saw his project finished and in use by skateboarders. He is also known for Bumbershoot and many posters for annual Seattle events. FHS welcomes him on board as an advisor and volunteer docent.

Pictures and text were borrowed from John Hilding’s website. You can see some of his architectural art at baconandeggs.info . John has created posters for the Wilkeson Handcar Races and has been a board member and supporter of the former Wilkeson Historical Society. He also owned the Carlson Block in Wilkeson at Use this link to read more about John and his project: https:// one time. www.courierherald.com/news/wilkeson-unveils-giant-bacon-and-eggs-skatepark/

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WHAAT? Seattle Times, 1912——

When I first read this, I thought of the current news stories about vaccinations. Then I reread it. Not being a medically trained person, it seems a little backward. It is advising people who “know “ they have been exposed to smallpox get vaccinated. Isn’t that a little late? How do you show that you have not been exposed? What if you are traveling with people who do not know they have been exposed?

George Washington ordered all his men at Valley Forge to get a smallpox vaccination which was very crudely but effectively done in 1770’s. The British were not vaccinated. US Congress passed the Vaccination Act in 1813 for public access to vaccines. Many of us still carry the small scar where we were vaccinated for small pox as children. I remember seeing adults horribly scarred by the disease. The last known naturally occurring infection was in Africa 1975. In 1977 it was declared eradicated. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned by the general public. Thank you to all who have gotten their Covid shot. —Jean Contreras, Editor

Museum is again open during usual hours, observing Covid precautions. Sunday 1-4pm; Tuesday, Wed, Thurs, 12-4

Foothills Historical Museum Yard Sale 130 N River Ave Friday, July 30 10-4 pm Please bring your donations to museum during open hours Sun 1-4, Tues-Thurs 12-4.

This is our first real fund raising event in almost 2 years. It should be fun!

Email: [email protected] or 360-829-1290

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