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The Forest Inn - Main and Virginia streets ·DIGGING DUVALL'S PAST

by Allen Miller

This book is dedicated to all the pioneers, including my forebears, who worked so long and hard through good times and hard times, on their land and in their community, to create this city of Duvall. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Duvall Historical Society is very grateful to Allen Miller for his generosity in donating his newspaper articles to the Duvall Historical Society and permitting the Society to publish the articles in book form. Allen's historical and entertaining stories plus his wonderful accompanying photos can now be enjoyed by the general public.

These articles were originally printed in the Snoqualmie Valley Record newspaper in 1980 and 1981.

The photos were provided as follows: page 31 - Cherry Valley School Class, photo provided by Bob and Mae Kosters. page 35 - First Vincent School, photo provided by William Quaale. page 39 - 1928 Stillwater School Class, photo provided by Mabel Mackey. Cover photos and all others, plus cartoons - provided by Allen Miller.

Digging Duvall's Past is the third book pertaining to the history of the Duvall area that has been published by the Duvall Historical Society: Jist Cogltatln' by Don Funk was published in 1989; Wagon Wheel, First Volume was published in 1992. These books were laid-up, formatted, edited, and otherwise prepared for publication for the Duvall Historical Society by members Ray and Tove Burhen. The funds from the sale of these books will permit the Society to publish more local history.

Copyright © 1995 by Duvall Historical Society. Published August, 1995, by Duvall Historical Society. Printed by Snohomish Publishing Company, Snohomish, Washington.

Identification of cover photos: Cover - Main Street Duvall with the Forest Inn, about 1910 Inside front cover - The Forest Inn under construction. Back cover - 1912 view of Duvall from the north with the Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad tracks in the foreground. Inside back cover - Cherry Gardens Advertising Flyer.

ii PREFACE

We hope you enjoy reading this book as much as those of us who first saw the articles in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. Allen's writings preserve the history of the area with a style of writing that makes the chronicling of our local history vivid and entertaining reading. Not only is Allen a local historian, but he also is an ardent railroad buff. Hopefully, in the future we may be fortunate enough to publish more of his writings and pictures pertaining to early day railroading in this area. We wish to thank all of you who purchase the books published by the Duvall Historical Society. Your purchases of these books provide the seed money for the publication of additional historical books, articles, and papers. We wish you pleasant reading while learning about our local history.

INTRODUCTION: ALLEN MILLER

By Bob Kosters

Although it really hasn't been that long since the first white settlers came to the Valley, many of these pioneers, and much of their way of life, has already been forgotten by most of us. A lot of the information needed to make those early days seem more real to us has not been lost, but is stored away in the storerooms and attics of local people up and down the Valley. When the Duvall Historical Society was started, it was their aim to dig out as much of this history as we could and preserve it for future Duvallites. To dig out this information and rebury it seemed foolish , so it was decided to publish some of this history from time to time. It was our good fortune that over the years a few had already written articles about Valley history. Thus it was that the articles written by Allen Miller for the Snoqualmie Valley Record have been collected and put into book form for local history lovers. Having known Allen since he was a boy, and being neighbors to his parents and grandparents, we were aware of his interest in Valley history, and the collection of it, since he was very young. With his grandmother coming to this area in 1902 and his grandfather being born near Fall City in 1896, Allen had access to a lot of early Valley history. Allen 's good memory and desire for accuracy make him the historian that every com­ munity would be fortunate to have.

iii TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page ...... i Acknowledgments and Cover photo captions ...... ii Preface and Introduction ...... iii Table of contents ...... iv Valley Resident Writes, by Melinda Wetzer ...... 1 The Great Duvall Bank Robbery ...... 2 Railroading In and Out of Duvall ...... 3 Ancient Orchards ...... 5 Ferry Tales ...... 6 The Valley's Biggest Swinger ...... 7 Shingle Mills in Cherry Valley ...... 8 More on the Shingle Mills ...... 9 Cherry Valley Logging Company ...... 11 Famous Names ...... 15 Cold Weather ...... 17 Remembered Floods ...... 18 The Valley House ...... 19 Development of Cherry Gardens ...... 20 Duvall's "Big Mill" ...... 22 Leak's Grove ...... 23 Train Time ...... 24 Riverboat Recollections ...... 25 Cherry Valley Schools ...... 28 Novelty ...... 31 Vincent ...... 34 Stillwater ...... 38 Other Schools in the Valley ...... 40 Cherry Valley ...... 42 From Cherry Valley to Duvall ...... , ...... 44 The Town Begins ...... 45 A Look at Old Duvall ...... 46 A Walk Up Main Street...... 47 A Look at the Rest of Early Duvall ...... 49 Logging Lokies ...... 50 Thanks for the Memories ...... 52

iv THE VALLEY RECORD October Z, 1980

Valley Resident Writes Duvall History For Record

Allen Miller Duvall Hlstorlau Society has used several of them on stationery which Is sold By MeUnda Wetzel Allen's grandfather, Harry for fund-raising. Miller, was born in Fall City In As a railroad buff, he Is a Allen Miller, 30, has been 1896, and his grandmother, Nel­ member of the International working on a written history of lie, carne to Duvall in 1902. He Association of Train Order Col­ Duvall for the past three years. has taped his grandparents' lectors, the tissue paper orders The Valley Record Is fortunate recollections and spent count­ handed to conductors and en­ to be able to share it with you in less hours in research and talk­ gineers at various train depots series form. ing with other early setUers. and stations. He also has a col­ Miller, who grew up in Du­ Many of his writings were veri­ lection of artifacts such as old vall, now lives In North Bend fied through old copies of the telegraph equipment, signs and with his wife, Mary Lou, and Duvall Citizen, which was signallantems. three children; Brandi, Wendy published between 1911 and Allen has . shown a con­ and leRoy. He Is a 1968 gradu­ 1917. scientious dedication In track­ ate of Tolt High School. Many people have donated Ing down the facts for his stor­ The author says that he has their old photographs to his ies, veriIytng dates, names and always had a fascination with growing collection. Those which places as best he can through rai1roading, even before his are clear enough for newspaper the vivid memories of long-time eight-year stint with the Mil­ reproduction will be presented residents and by physical clues waukee Railroad as a teletype with appropriate articles over which can still be found for operator. HIs collection of rail­ the coming months. someone who looks hard roading memorabilia and ques­ A member of the Duvall Ris­ enough. tioning of oldtirners in the torical and Old Stuff Society, It Is hoped that you will enjoy Valley soon led to forays into Allen has also contributed ex­ these glimpses into Duvall'. other areas of Duvall's history. cellent pen and ink drawings of history during the exciting days old Duvall to the city. The of the logging boom.

FRANK THAYER FARMSTEAD south of Duvall. House built in 1909 was Allen Mille r's great-grand­ parents ' home.

1 %-See.D 'l1IE VAlLEY RECORD o"lober %,1980

The Great Duvall

Bank Robbery The Duvall State Bank· 1912.

or 11 o'clock in the evening and changed. By Allen MllIer ware store and grabbed up shot· many people were on the streets guns, nnes, pistols and am­ Suddenly, he jumped up and On the moonlit evening of De­ doing their shopping. Lon munition. Bill Lierly ran out· made a run for the river. A cember 18, 1915, about 6:31) Brown, DuvaU's mayor, was side, crouched behind a tele­ splash was heard and he started p.m., four men entered the pres­ conducting a contest in his store phone pole and emptied a swimming for the other side. ent Duvall Bank building with about this same time, in which revolver at the fleeing men. They called for him to come pistols blazing. One man re­ persons were asked to identify a From the bottom of the hill back, and then Bert Gainer took mained at the doorway, the photograph of a pair of some­ could be seen five flashes in the aim and fired. other three stepped up to the one's eyes. Ralph Taylor and dark, as the men returned the The water was silent, and in teller's cage and, thrusting a his mother were coming down fire. Bert Gainer, who was town the dim Ught, the robber could pillowcase into cashier C. Bea­ the street to do some shopping marshal at the time, led a posse not be seen. On the riverbank don F.alJ's hands, demanded at Hix's when the shots Were of men down the hill'in pursuit. was found the pillowcase, con­ gold, gold, gold. And quick! Mr. heard. They thought it was Upon reaching the railroad taining $435. Bert Gainer held it Hall started shoving rolls of some of Lon's fireworks, an­ track, below town, the bandits up for aU to See. "What'U we do silver dollars, half dollars and nouncing the winner of the con· headed south towards Novetty, with it, boys? Divide 'er up?" two-bit pieces into the bag, then test. So you can imagine their with the angry townspeople A massive search was launch­ replied, "That's all there Is, I surprise when the robbers came close behind. The ba ttle con· ed to find the missing bandit don't have any more ... The ban­ running out of the bank with tinued up the railroad tracks, and the river was dynamited dits then rushed out of the bank gum blazing. This must have with townsmen firing at the several times, but no body was and ran down the alley between impressed upon the Tayiors, fleeing robbers and the robbers eVer found. A .32 Coit automatic the present hardware and who had only recenUy arrived returning fire. pistol was found in deep water General Store. from England, that the days of At a point behind the Cha!>, just off the shore a few weeks Sounds Ilke a SCene out of an the Old West had not yet van­ man Gravel and Sand shop, later and reports were told of old western movie? Well, frien­ ished in the New World. south of town, one of the memo seeing strange lights flickering ds, this was the great Duvall bers of the gang, still clutching down along the river at night. bank robbery of 1915, Duvall's Also at this time the Saturday the sack of money, headed down Now it's all Just local history, first bank holdup, and certainly night bank hours Were 7 to 10 towards the river. The other forgotten by many who took it's most well remembered. One p.m. and there were a number three men continued along the part in it. But what about the reason it is well remembered is of mill workers and loggers on tracks towards Novetty. The three surviving bandits? Did because it was witnessed by a the streets coming to cash their possee followed the lone ouUaw they ever forget? Could they great many peopie, some of paychecks. and overtook him at the river· still be alive, to this very day? whom are still aUve today. In After the bandits made their bank. He took COVer behind a And were they the ones whose those days, the stores and busi­ geta way, a number of towns­ large cottonwood tree and sev· Ughts were seen, down along 'esses often stayed open until 10 men ran into Manion's Hard· eral more shots were ex- the river? Who will ever know?

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ENGINE NO . 298 and the Mixed Daily in front of the Great Northern depot at Duvall. Railroading, In And Out Of Duvall

after the G.N. line was aban­ By Allen Miller the line went through a series of rection, another railroad was new officers. It also went approaching the Valley. The doned, the Milwaukee dug out Today I thought I might through a series of names and Chlcago, Milwaukee and Puget the h!lLside below High Rock remind our readers that the was known at various times as Souna Railway began grading and filled in the trestle. strip of land below town, that is the Cherry Valley Electric Rail­ through Cherry Valley in June When the E&CVT right-of· presently being . developed into way. nicknamed the "hot air of 1910, building a branch line way agents were buying up land a mobile home park, was the line" and the Everett· Tacoma from Cedar Falls to Everett. through the Valley, many of the site of two railroad yards in the Railway. Their line paralleled the Big G landowners signed over their early years. One of those rail­ The plans for this line were for most its length between land under the impression that roads, the Milwaukee Road, finally dropped in 1910 when a Carnation and Monroe. There it was to be a trolley line. There was still operating through the group of Everett businessmen, was often fierce rivalry be­ were some bitter feelings after Valley until 1973. headed by J. T. McChesney and tween the two roads, with side­ they realized it was to become a Opportunists realized the ad­ Edward C. Mony, announced by-side train races through the major railroad. One man, a vantages of putting a railroad the formation of the Everett Valley and fistfights between Scotsman named Canack who tine through the Valley as early and Cherry VaUey Traction section crews. lived near Stillwater; held out as 1906. In that year, the Company to build an electric­ The longest piece of straight and collected $5,000, which was Snohomish Valley Railway ally operated railway connect­ track in the Valley ran from real money in those days. Company was formed to build a ing with the Great Northern at just north of town to Cherry The Milwaukee, you can be railroad from Everett through Monroe, to run through Cherry Creek. Across this stretch the sure, did not get by so easUy. Snohomish to Monroe, then Valley, Toltand into FaU City. Great Northern had a wooden One owner sold out just before south through Cherry Valley and The E&CVT got as far as Tolt. trestle almost a mile and a half the railroad came through and Novelty to Tolt, then through when a combination of financial long, with the ties covered with tt., new owner collected the price the Patterson Creek Valley and difficulties and a dispute over sheet iron to keep them dry. d. tt., entire !ann. One owner re­ Canyon Creek to Issaquah, then some needed right-of-way for­ Many daring bicycle riders ceived enough from a logging through Renton, and down the ced them to accept Tolt as the crossed this bridge between the railroad right-of-way to buy a White River and Puyallup southern terminus of the line. A tracks. It was good going and 4().acre farm, build a house and Valley via Kent, Auburn and turntable and a smaU one-stall probably many speed records barn, only to have the Mil­ Swnner to Tacoma. enginehouse was built at Tolt to were set trying to beat the train waukee come through. The raU­ Although lumbermen assured service the locomotive during when it unexpectedly arrived. roads cut up some of the good the line's promoters that there layovers. The line was never Below the old Biederborst farmland, but the owners would be an average of one electrified, and shortly after place the G.N. built their line usually collected enough to sawmill to every mile of track construction, the Great North­ right on the bank of the river; make some nice improvements. plus the business from dairy ern bought up the line and took consequently, the Milwaukee and fruit products, the needed over operations. was forced to run a trestle out (More 011 Rallroadlng capItal could not be raised and Meanwhile from the other di- into the river to get by. Later, Next Week)

3 :-Sec.1I THE VALLEY RECORD October 16, 1980

THE MILWAUKEE depot in Duvall opened in 1912. It is still standing just below the bridge . Railroading, In And Out Of Duvall

By Allen Miller The Milwaukee had a number of holdouts and continued to re­ agents assigned to the Duvall ceive G.N. shipments of beet Most oldtimers will remem­ til he had almost passed them. station over the years. J . Roy pulp until 1947. ber the Great Northern's local Bringing the train to stop, he a Lucas, George Herley, S. A. The Milwaukee pulled off train through the Valley. It was asked if they wanted a ride on Bourke and R. P. Rozelle were their passenger trains in 1930, a "mixed" train, usually made into town, and then told them among the better known. H. T. although they operated a bus next time to light a match or up of two coaches on the rear Weeks also worked as telegraph service into the 1940's, making carry a light so he could see and two or three boxcars being operator at Duvall for a couple connections with their main line pulled by the 298, a littie "II). them. The Milwaukee of years ; he went on to become pa!Senger trains at Cedar wheeler" oil·burning passenger train usually con­ a songwriter of some renown . Falls. locomotive. sisted of three cars, two coach­ After the opening of Lon The Milwaukee passenger es and an express car, as they With the discontinuance of Brown's Duvall Theatre, the railroad logging in the early train made four trips a day also handled the mail to and Great Northern would occasion­ down the Valley, the first arriv­ from stations in the Valley. 1930's, the Milwaukee lost much ally run a special train from of the business it had enjoyed ing at Duvall at 8:30 a.m., The Milwaukee also operated Tolt, stopping at Stillwater and returning up the Valley at 11 two freight trains a day, a night previously. The log trains were a.m., then coming down again log train to Cedar Falls and a Novelty to allow everyone in the pulled off, leaving one local at 3 p.m. and going up at 7: 30 in day log train between Snoh<>­ Valley a chance to see special freight each way. In 1938 the the evening. One-way rates mish and Stillwater, to handle fUrns of interest. Duvall station was closed and the accounts for Duvall were were as follows: Novelty - 10 the logs brought out by the In 1917, the business could no handled from the Carnation sta­ cents, Monroe - 25 cents, Tolt - Cherry Valley Timber Com­ longer support two sets of tion. 3() cents, Fall City - 45 cents and pany. tracks and the Big G line was Cedar Falls - 95 cents. The abandoned. The present state In 1952, dlesel locomotives During this time both rail­ Milwaukee bent over backwar­ highway between Monroe and replaced the old steam engines roads maintained and operated ds to please its traveling public, Carnation covers most of the and on Feb. 9, 1973 the Everett­ their own depots located along with low-rate passenger excur­ old roadbed, although some br­ Cedar Falls local made its last their lines below town. The sions to Snoqualmie Falls, North idge pilings and fill are still run through the Valley, passing Great Northern's station, Bend, Seattle, Everett and Lake visible behind Stillwater Store through Duvall about 8:30 p.m. opened May IS , 1911, was 1<>­ Keechelus. and at Horseshoe Lake, north of In the spring of 1975 the tracks cated just north of the bridge, Carnation. were taken up and the name The late Harry Miller told of and their agent was J . G. Wag­ The Great Northern main­ "Duvall" taken out of the rail­ the time he and his father were goner. tained connections in the road's timetable. walking along the tracks from The Mllwaukee's depot, op­ Valley, however, by having the Now it's all gone, the depots, Tolt, heading towards Duvall, ened Jan. 8, 1912, still stands, Milwaukee deliver their car­ the agents, the passengers, the when the passenger train carne just below the bridge. It has loads through an interchange at trains, even the rails, leaving along. As it was almost dusk, been turned around and it ori­ Monroe. The Grange Store at very Uttle evidence to the casual the engineer didn't see them un- ginally sat closer to the river. Carnation was one of the last passer-by that there ever was a railroad through here.

4 Ancient Orchards J)1J'IAI.L's PAST

By AUen Miller choker cables, end hooks and a While they were establishing Now that hunting season is vast assortment of hardware their claims, there were two upon us, dozens of sportsmen have been left behind by early things that the settler needed to are going out each weekend try­ logging operations. Also do to survive - to get a shelter ing to put a lJtue venison on the famllJar to some are the long up and to plant an orchard. table, plus the faU hikers are rows of decayed pilings A root ceilar was built to store maJting their last treks into the crossing a quiet stream or mar­ the fruits and vegetables surrounding hills before Old ching across a marshy slough, through the winter. Man Winter arrives. Ali points marking the site of a one­ to the fact that there are prob­ time busy logging trestle. So, if you're hunting or hiking ably more people tramping OccasionaUy you come across up on Stossel Creek or Ring around through the woods now something that is not so easUy Hill and come across a scat­ than at any other time of the explained, such as when you tering of frult trees, now you year. Most of these weekend stwnble into a moss-beered know how they got there and explorers are famllJar with the frult orchard located deep in the why. usual relics of the past com­ forest and far removed from an monly found in the woods - accessible road.

5 THE VALLEY RECORD November 6, 1980

Ferry Tales

By Allen Mlller THIS FERRY was operated by Robert Main, working the When the early settlers of the Snoqualmie River in Cherry Valley below the Everett Valley wanted to cross the De Jong farm. The picture was made in 1907. river. they used a rowboat, or during times of heavy logging, they would walk across the log jams. In the 1890's, when more and more wagons and teams third operator named Tom Hop­ side of the road from the county began to emerge on the scene, a kins, who lived on the present line to High Rock, parts of few enterprising individuals James Roetcisoender farm. Mr. which can still be seen. A short went into the business of ferry­ Hopkins operated the ferry road came down the riverbank ing as a more convenient from the sand bar below his at the end of the Cherry Valley method of crossing the mighty place, across the river to the log dump trestle to connect with Snoqualmie River. original mouth of Cherry Creek. Mr. Main's ferry. James Duvall, for whom the This ferry, constructed of hand­ Another ferry was located at town was named, was one of the hewn planks and square nalls, Stuart, which was the name first. His ferry was located still exists and can be seen dur­ given a railroad spur on the Mil­ where the present bridge ing times of extremely low waukee about two miles north crosses the river. A water, half buried in sand of Stillwater. It was in operation team of mules ran off this ferry resting on the river bottom. in 1912 and was used to ferry once, dragging a wagon into the These ferries were not the cattle shipped in by railroad river with them, and drowned. impressive boats you might across the river to Carnation The movement of the craft ex­ imagine. They were actually Farms. A few years later, a cited them and they ran off the Just scows, with a deck, railings bridge was built to replace the end of the ferry about halfway and gangway ends which were ferry. The east and west pile across. lowered onto the bank to allow bulkheads for this bridge can Leo Leyde owned and passengers and teams to come still be seen although the bridge operated a ferry on the river aboard or go ashore easily. collapsed into the river many behind Chapman Gravel and A Mr. Robert Main, who lived years ago. Sand Company's shop, south of on what was until recently the One advantage to the ferries town. Harry Mlller farm, operated a over bridges was that there Herb Leake, who lived on the ferry which crossed the river in were a nwnber of places at present Ward Roney farm, later front of the Everett DeJong which one could cross the river. bought this ferry business from farm. The county road in those After the swing bridge was built Mr. Leyde and moved it down­ days ran along the riverbank the lerry business quickly died stream to his farm. Mr. Leake from present day Duvall, past out and the number 01 places at operated his ferry Until the the old Valley House, then which Valley people could cross swing bridge was constructed headed northeast across Cherry the river was reduced to one. about 1905. Creek and paralleled the Another chapter to those good This ferry was then sold to a present highway on the east old days that are gone forever. 6 THE CHERRY VALLEY Swing Bridge as it ap· peared In 1910. It was last opened in 1917.

The Valley's Biggest Swinger

By Allen !'tUller It was known by all who saw it as the " Cherry Valley Swing Bridge" and for many years It was, literally, the At the bridge, the pressure was terrific and it was Valley's biggest swinger. Constructed by the county in feared the Jam would take out the bridge if allowed to can­ 1905, it was probably one of the first bridges in the Valley. Unue. Men were brought in from logging camps all over Because It was built during the period of riverboat tran­ the Valley, to assist in breaking up the Jam. Several at­ sportation, plus the fact that the enUre structure was too tempts were made to loosen the Jam with dynamite, but low for boats to pass beneath it, the bridge was built on a were not successful. Finally, the tow boat "Grace G." was huge cement pier in the middle of the river. One hundred brought up from Everett. This was a highly maneuv­ and ninety-two feet long and perfecUy balanced, the enUre erable, diesel-powered boat with a screw propeller. It bridge could be turned on Its center pier until it was would hook onto a key log, pull It loose, the Jam would parallel with the river, aUowing boats to pass through break up, a few log. would come down, then it would hang unobstructed. up again and the whole process repeated until the river To protect the bridge from being struck by boats while was clear. in Its open position, a " draw rest" was constructed in the Since the river was not wide enough for both the bridge river, with protection bulkheads erlendlng the full length and the boats, the bridge was located a bit to one side and of the open bridge, to deflect any carelessly navigated not eucUy in the center of the river. The central pier was boats. Constructed of dotens of sturdy pilings and lined located to the east of the river'. center, and a long bulk­ with heavy planks, the ends of the draw rest were pointed, head was constructed along the west bank. Between these to deflect the many hundreds of logs which were floated was the channel for the boats to pass. The east side was down the river by logging camps upstream. much too shallow for boats and was, at Urnes of extremely Despite uu.. safeguard, logs would periodically hang up low water,left high and dry. on the south end of the dra w rest and soon a log Jam would For turning purposes, the bridge revolved on a row of occur. Old·Urner Meredith Owen recalls that some of cuters, arranged in a circle, which rode upon a steel plate these Jams extended the full width of the river and or rail, extending around the edge of the cement pier. To someUrnes erlended upstream for·two miles. In February carry the weight of wagons and automoblles while the of 1913, a large Jam began when logs from the T. M. Ring bridge was closed, there were projections extending camp hung up on the bridge. Soon logs from the camps at below the bridge ends, which rested on the end ap­ Stillwater began adding to the backup. The river began to proaches and held the structure in alignment. rise and kept the Jam piling higher. Log. kept accumu­ To open the bridge, the end locks were raised and ' Ii laUng for almost a week and were backed upstream as far lever resembling a huge socket wrench, or tire iron, was as the old Hanish fann. All day and night the log Jam Inserted into an opening in the center of the bridge deck. would grind and crack. The pressure was so great that Two men, pushing uu.. lever and waiklng in a circle, logs and poles would occasionally pop right out of the would turn a series of gear teeth and slowly swing the water and land up on the riverbanks! brid~e around. ( Continued)

7 taken up to discourage pedestrian traffic, but many of Duvall's young dare-devUs made it across by hanging on­ to the side railings. Eventually, the bridge became a Leo Dougherty, one 01 three brothers assigned to open safety hazard and was demolished completely. The con­ the bridge, recalledriveway, old bridge was opened lor the last time. A new stationary take a look over the bank. There you will see a sort of bridge was opened in the lall of 1918, which entered town small rock island, near the east bank a few stubs of rotten south of the present Duvall Tavern, and the old swing pilings and lots of chunks of brok~n cement. The last bridge fell into disuse and disrepair. remains of the Cherry Valley Swing Bridge. And, if you use your imagination, you can almost hear the clanking of the gears as she swings around, to let the ghost of some The bridge became unsafe for traffic in the early 1920's long vanished riverboat pass. Another whisper from the and the approac!:es were barricaded. The planking was past; those good oid days that are gone forever.

Shingle Mills In Cherry Valley

By Allen Miller Smith Shingle Company" by the man 01 the same name, with One of the Valley's more Roy Robinson and C. N. Smith nwneroWl Industries in the as associates, It operated day early days were shingle mIUs. and night and generally em­ THiS GREEN LABEL graced many a bundie of shingles An abundant growth of old ployed about 40 men. The MlI­ and heiped to put Duvall on the map in the early 1900'5 . straight grain cedar, plus the waukee Rallroad put In a spur fact that a fair sized mill could track along the riverbank be bullt with relatively little beside the mill, Irom which logs ments as to which day al" Smith continued to operate capital, made it a reasonably were dumped into a boom on the pUances, such as electric curl­ the mill until 1913, when E . profitable venture. river and boxcars were loaded ing irons, could be used, so as MIlton Stephens and Roy Com­ Probably the most well­ with shingles lor shipment. not to blow a luse, either the egys, of the Cherry Valley Town­ remembered shingle mill In the In 1912, a well was sunk at the dynamo's or the men's who site Company, foreclosed on the Valley was the Cherry Valley mill site and a dynamo was in­ operated it. At dusk each night, mortgage and took over, setting Shingle Company's mill, which stalled in the mill. A branch as lights began to come on all up the "Cherry Valley Shingle was located on the site of the operation of the mill, the over town, the engine which Company .'1 boat ramp. It operated longer "Duvall Ught and Water Com­ drove the generator would than any of the Valley's other pany," was formed, headed by begin to bear down to keep up In 1914, a number of improve­ mIUs, and was a source of em­ C. N. Smith, and the mill began with the demand. About 9 or 10 ments were made, in and ployment for many early Valley to lurnish electricity as well as o'clock, the Uttle town began to around the mill. The Milwaukee residents, among them being water to the town. Since the dy­ settle down to sleep, and the trestle, along the river, was Ralph Taylor, Kenneth H1x, Bill namo was of a limited capacity, load on the dynamo began to de­ lowered 10 feet, to make Its use McConnick and the late Harry electricity had to be rationed, crease until, around midnight, more suitable as a iog dump. A Miller. and the "Duvall Citizen" news­ the engine would be back to separate loading spur was Bullt In 1911 as the "L. T. paper made periodic aMounce- Idling speed. (Continued)

8 a portion of the chute can still Volwnes of steam would pour went through the roof and land­ be seen, defying time and the out of the kiln's vent stacks, as ed across the river. Fortunate­ river. the intense heat drove the mois­ Iy, no one was hurt. The mill A barge shack was located on ture out of the shingles, which operated until 1925. Straight placed alongside the dry kiln, the river, from which an em­ were then put into a press, bun­ grain cedar, needed to ITlIlke which ITlIlde loading shingles in­ ployee, using a long pike pole, dled into squares, labeled and shingles, had run out by this to freight cars a lot easier and would guide the logs into the loaded into waiting boxcars for time and ca used the mill to eliminated a lot of extra switch­ chute. A bull chain would pull shipment. close. ing for the train crews. A lift the logs up into the mill, where span was installed in the trestle, a cutoff saw would cut the logs Aside from an occasional There were, however, several over the bolt chute, which was into blocks. An upright saw sawyer losing a finger now and other SITlIlIl mills located in the raised to allow logs to travel up would cut the blocks into shin­ then in the whirring saw blades, Valley and next week we will the chute into the mill and low­ gles, and a cUpper saw would the most frightening accident take a look at some of them. ered for trains to pass, when­ trim the shingles which would which occurred at the mill was ever the mill was switched. then be thrown down a chute to when the flywheel broke and When the river is low enough, the packer. The shingles would sent iron fragments hurling the pilings for the log dwnp and then be placed in the kiln to dry. throughout the mill. One piece

THE RIVER BELOW Duvall was a bustle of activity when this photo was made In 1912 of the L. T. Smith Shingle Mill .

1'H~: VAl.LEYRECORD NovemberZO, 1980 More On The Shingle Mills :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.::::;::::::::.;:::;:::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::;:;:::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::::;:;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ...... :.:.::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::;:;:;:::::::;:::::: By AIleD Miller Near the mouth of Cherry Cherry Creek. Later on, the bolt of cedar was uhausted, and the In our last article, we dls­ Creek, on the Clarence Zylstra camp was moved near the mill was closed in 1914. cussed the operations of the fa rm, stands a large concrete present Gunnar Otness ranch Three and a half miles north Cherry Valley Shingle Company foundation and a pile of old and a dam was built in the creek of Duvall, on what is called miil at Duvall. Shingle mills bricks. This was once the boiler there. The bolts were thrown in­ Rocky Point, W. R. CunnIng­ were a corrunon sight in the room for Ole Q'Neal.cowen to the creek until a good sized ham Jr. and George A. Berg­ Valley, b",ok in the days when Shingle Company mill. Owned pond was formed, then the gate strom owned and operated a hugt: . cedar trees covered the by two men, James O'Neal and was ra!.sed, and with a mighty mill on the riverbank, known as slopes east and west of our fair James E . Gowen, who also (".ISh of water the bolts ITlIlde the C. B. Shingle Company mill, city. The mill was often the fo unded the Cherry Valley Log­ their way down to the mill's or "C.B. Mill" for short. This lTlIlin industry for the slTlllll ging and Railway Company, the boom at the mouth of Cherry mill also had a flwne which ex­ communities in the Valley, and mill had a bolt camp located Creek. The Great Northern tended far up into the hills, com­ the sounds of the hwrunlng near Lake Margaret. A flwne RaIlway built a spur track on ing down to the river about 400 ""ws going day and night and was built from the bolt camp, pilings out to the mill site, feet above the mill. TIle shingle the blast of the mill whisUe down the hill near the old Allen which was also coMected to the bolts and water shot out into the echoing across the Valley were farm, and the shingle bolts MIlwaukee line, and both rail· river and were caught in the symbols of prosperity and em­ were sent down this flwne in a roads competed for the mill's pioyment for all. stream of water and shot into business. Eventually the supply (Continued)

9 aown and starting up again as October. like the shingle mill, SUllwater, on the old Mountain the prices and availability of its operations were not contin­ View farm. cedar dictated. [n August the uous, but it did supply employ­ In 1912 the Stephens Bird In­ dry kiln burned down, causing a ment for many local residents terests began erecting a large boom and hauled up into the temporary shutdown, and in until the area's supply of Umber sawmill, which was to operate mill. This flwne was known to December of 1913 the mill was ew usted. under the name of "Duvall leak rather badly at the point owners dissolved their partner­ At the foot of Ring Hill, west Lwnber Company," Just north where It crossed the county ship, causing still another shut­ of Duvall, was the location of of the city llmlts. The Mil­ road, and travelers reaching down until John P. Ronnel, Er­ two small shingle mills in the waukee railroad built a spur this point would give their nest Sarnzelius and Victor Mill­ early days. One of these was track and log dwnp out to the teams an extra "giddy-up" so sian joined partners with Mr. the Douglas and Balter mill, mill site, which contained a as to pass under without getting Hoff and started the mill going owned by Fred Douglas and E. blacksmith shop, Iwnber mill, too wet. The Milwaukee and again. [n July of 1915 J. P. F. Baxter. It started operations lath mill, shingle mill and was Great Northern railroads built Asplund and Otto Widen bought around 1911 and lasted about completely equipped with separate spurs, side by side, in­ up the mill and it then became three or four years. Its most equipment and machinery. It ·to the mill, from which carloads known as the "Marsh Mill." notable contribution to the town became known locally as the of their "Upright Red Cedar The mill was located on the was that it supplied Duvall with "big mill" and was just on the Brand" shingles were shipped present Jake Groenweg farm the cedar poles when electric verge of opening when, for to points all over. the country. and the shingle bolts were sent lighting was instaUed in 1912. some reason, it failed and, The mill caught fire in 1914, and down to the mill on a sled The other mill located here although nwnerous attempts was never rebuilt. When the coming down a chute on a ca ble was the Getchell Shingle Com­ were made to get the mill run­ river gets low, and if you look operated by a donkey engine up pany, which began operating ning, It was never opened. The. hard enough, you can still find a on the hiU . The finished shingles Oct. 16, 1916, and later became mill stood idle for several years portion of the bolt chute, how­ were trucked to the Great North­ the Getchell-Roberts Shingle and became consldera bly over­ ever, anchored to a large rock ern spur at Novelty for ship­ Company. The shingles from grown with blackberry bushes. on the river's bank. ment. this mill were trucked across Later the riverboat "Black There was also a small saw­ the Valley to a spur on the Prince" was brought upriver to The Vincent Shingle Com­ mill at Vincent, owned by Will­ Milwaukee Railroad located haul away the machinery when pany mill began operations iam Gillespie. It was located north of the old dehydrator the mill was dismantled. Today, March 24, 1913, under the own­ just north of the present Klaas pIant. Another shingle miU, only the concrete foundatlon of ership of John Hoff and Frank Zuiderbaan home. It began op­ known as Sirrunon's Shingle Ole boiler room remains - a Doucett. Operation was erations in March of 1913 and a Company ( pronounced monument, perhaps, to the days sporadic at best, often shutting planer was added the following Symon's) was located north of when lumbering was big business in DuvaU.

THE O 'NEAL-GOWEN Shingle Mill located at the mouth of Cherry Creek nea r an area once called Bacus on th e Duvall -Monr ot! Road.

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LUM &f. R Cherry Valley

Logging Company

By AlleD MllIer Sometime when you are driving along the highway head­ Ing towards Carnation, jusl af­ ter you pass the bottom of Fay Road, glance over to yourrighl In the slough between the high­ way and the abandoned Mil­ waukee railroad grade_ There you will see a series of old bridge pilings slandlng In Ihe swamp, one of the last remain­ ing traces of the Cherry Valley Logging Company. At one time It was a large logging operation and source of employment to many early Valley residenls. The origin of this "Stillwater Logging Road," as it was com­ monly called, began in 1890 near the mouth of Cherry Creek. The Millet and McKay Logging Company was, at that time, just beginning to build a logging railroad across the Valley to the hill on the east side. A split-eedar bunkhouse, THE CREW takes a break near the Lake Margaret area. The photo was made about 100 feet long and 25 feel wide, 1909 and is used here courtesy of the Weyerhaeuser Archives. sat on the riverbank. In one end was a mess hall and kitchen; the rest of the building con­ Game lands. shay locomotive to be used in berlands and on May 31, 1904, sisted of one long room lined This operation was then the Puget Sound area. This op­ James and Eugene O'Neal, with shelf-like bunks covered bought up by the Mosher and eration lasted until the panic of James E. Gowen and J.T. Kilty with cedar boughs. These were McDonald Logging Company, 1893-97 caught them with a river fonned the Cherry Valley Log­ the living quarters for the men who completed the trestle, full of logs, all boomed up, and ging and Railway Company to who sawed and chopped their grading and laying track up as no markel to send them to. They acquire and operate the logging way through the thick foresl of far as the old Gus Nordstrom barged out "Belle" and two railroad originally built by vine maple, willow, spruce and home in Cherry Gardens. A car donkey engines in 1896 and Millet and McKay. The new wUd crabapple that then shed and roundhouse was Ie>­ abandoned the resl. company brought in tons of log­ covered the Valley noor. cated just above the hairpin In 1902 the Thomas Irvine ging equipment, including three With a pile driver operated by tum going up into the Gardens, Lumber Company, of SI. ·Paul, "Climax" locomotives, 13 don· the late Billy Brennon, fol­ near the R.M.L. Rogers place. Minn., took over the ahandoned key engines, dozens of logging lowing close behind, a tresUe A brand new HShay" Mosher and McDonald opera­ cars, steel rails and miles of was completed to the foot of the locomotive with the name tions, buying up about 50 million steampipe. It was all brought hill when the finn went broke. "Belle" painted on the side of feet of timber in the Cherry up the Snoqualmie River on Some of the pilings for this her cab .was brought up the Gardens area. Shortly after­ barges by steamboat and un­ bridge can still be seen where it river on a barge to be used to wards, the O'Neal Timber Com­ loaded onto a spur track thaI crossed Cherry Creek near the bring out the carloads of logs. pany of Stillwater, Minn., ran down the riverbank and on­ east boundary of the State This is believed to be the first bought up the remaining tim- to the barge ilself. (Continued)

11 rights and handle the actual ties and the other against the logging operation, and O'Neal· log. By moving the train for· Gowen Shingle Company, who ward, the pressure on the bar built a mill near the mouth of would force the logs off the car. Cherry Creek and operated a This was quite dangerous be­ shingle bolt works at Camp 2. cause of the top log sometimes coming back and falling on the Under the new ownership The Cherry Valley's log dump man holding the bar. After a railway lines were extended in· was located on the east bank few years and several deaths, a to the hills and camps were set across the river from the safer method was devised. The up: Camp I was located at the present Cap Larsen home. The log ca ... used here were of the hairpin turn going up into track out on the dump was disconnect variety, being Cherry Gardens, Camp 2 was cantered, meantng that one rail nothing more than sets of four located at the Gunnar Olness was stighUy higher than the wheel trucks with a link and pin farm, Camp 3 at Cherry Creek other, causing the loaded log coupler at each end. Logs rest· Fails and Camp 4 at the Robert cars to lean towards the river ing across two trucks made up a Phillips homesite. Also, two when unloaded. Unloading was car, which was held together by smaller companies were for· done by the "Jillpoke" method, the weight of the load. med: Cherry Valley Lumber wherein a steel bar was placed Company, to purchase timber at an angle with one end on the (To Be Continued)

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A MAIN · LINE rod engine, bringing logs down to the Milwaukee Railroad . The photo was made on Stillwater Hill near lake Joy. Engineers backed their engines down a hill. With the front end elevated. hotter steam could '>e kept in the steam dome. Photo Courtesy ofWeyerhuuser Archlvu

12 By AlIeD MUler he decided to name it Stillwater, timber rights held by Thomas ample was his InvenUon o! • From the log dump the Cherry In honor of the men working for Irvine Lumber Company and donkey.q>erated crane, moun­ Valley's tracks ran past the old I the logglng company, most of O'Neal Timber Company. To ted on a flatcar for loading logs Valley House (we'll have a whom were from Stillwater, avoid confusion with the names on railroad cars. Since it was story on that In a few weeks), Minn. Camp 1 was located up on o! the new companies, the name invented on the "Cherry" then across the flats on a tresUe the hill, near the present inter­ o! Cherry Valley Logging and Valley !lne, and because it and along the hill about 100 feet section with Big Rock Road, Railway Company was changed "picked" the logs up, it earned behind what used to be the H. L. and the house on the right, to Lake Joy Logging and Rail­ the: name IICherry Picker," a Allen home. The curve just above the store, was once the way Company for purposes of device which today has many above the present barns was the logglng company's office. the sale. uses. On another, when the Mil­ site ot numerous derailments Early In 1912, the Cherry With saUd financial backing waukee Railroad couldn't sup­ over the years. On one occasion, Valley line reached a point from the Weyerhaeuser in­ ply empty cars for loading, Mr. John and Sid Allen were sortlng where a lot of expensive build­ terests the new companies ex­ McDonald brought his trainload potatoes In the root cellar when Ing was going to be required to panded rapidly, extending their o! logs down to the Milwaukee three cars jumped the track, reach any more Umber. It was rail lines and establishing siding, unloaded the logs along­ scattering logs everywhere; decided to abandon the !lne in­ another camp at the old Ethyl side the track and took the e~ one log plowed through the pile stead and ship the rails and Langendorfer . homesite on Ues back up Into the woods for ot potatoes between the two equipment to Stillwater, ex­ Stossel Creek Road. In peak another load. men and continued on almost to pandlng that !lne and even­ years the company would em­ About a mile up Stossel Creek the creek. On another occasion, tually reaching the timber from playas many as 500 men in its Road from· the rock quarry, • log took out part of the AlIens' the other side. Locomotives, log operations. The Cherry Valley there was a lresUe which be­ house, and In October of 1911, a cars, bunkhouses and equi~ boys were a rough bunch, it was came rather shakey In ita final locomotive and seven loads of ment were moved over the Mil­ a fact. In later years when they years. A father and son worked logs went o'ler the hlllslde. The waukee Railroad and the !lne used to go into Monroe on Satur­ together as engineer and f~ tralrunen escaped Injury by was extended up as far as Lake day nights, it was widely known rnan on one of the log trains. Jumping, but the Climax lokey Joy. that when the Cherry Valley Upon reaching this bridge they rolled over three times before it In May ot 1912, a group of boys arrived in town, the other would bring the train to a stop, came to rest. It was prompUy Weyerhaeuser Timber Com­ loggers went home. ad one of them would walk re-ralled and shipped over the pany Interests, consisting of In March of 1913, two big im­ across the bridge and wait on Milwaukee to Snohomish Iron George S. Long, W. L. Mc­ provements were made: the the far side. The other would Worlu for repairs, which took Cormick, G. E. deSteiguer and company purchased two new start the train, giving it just two months. Hugh Stewart, formed two se~ yarder engines from WiUamet­ enough throWe to send it across About 1906, the company be­ arate companies to buy up the te Iron and Steel Works and at a slow pace. Then he would gan constructing another Cherry Valley logging and they stopped dwnplng their logs cUmb out of the engine, letting logglng tine In the vicinity of Railway Company. The in the Snoqualmie River. A new the train cross the bridge by it­ what would later become Still­ " Cherry Valley Railway," log dwnp was built two miles self. When it reached the 0p­ water. A log dump was built on headed by J . E. Gowen, pur­ below Snohomish at a point posite side, the other man would the river below the old Pros chased the right of way, roUlng known as Riverview and an cUmb aboard and bring it to a Derycke farm, and a railfoad stock and log dump, while the agreement was made with the stop. Meanwhile, the other man was constructed up the hill " Cherry Valley Timber Com­ Milwaukee Road to transport would run down the hillside, up above the present Stillwater pany," headed by H. H. Irvine, all of their logs ( ~ to 50 car­ the other side, cUmb into the Store. In 1910, when H. Buti­ purchased all of the logging loads per day ). One hundred lokey and be on their way again. kofer was plattlng out the town, equipment and bought up the and fifty log flats were leased Apparently neither of these from the Milwaukee's "Tacoma men craved the glory that Eastern Railway," and the Mil­ comes whenever an engineer waukee ran a special train from dies with his hand on the throt­ Everett called the "Stillwater Ue. Don't let this story make Logger" to handle the business. you think these men were Much of the company's suc­ cowards, for bringing those cess was due to their superin­ heavy trains down the steep tendent, R. A. McDonald. grades of Stillwater Hill took Known by such nicknames as nerves of steel. "The Black Fellow" and "Roary," for his sudden out· bursts, he was a man who got things done, his way ! One ex- (CoDtinued)

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Cherry Valley Logging Company 1919, steam operated (Conclusion) yarder engine and landing crew.

By AU en Miller Over the next few years the logging company continued to grow, adding several locomotives to its log hauling operations and operating around SO miles of main line track and spur lines in the hiDs above Stillwater and in the Camp ElweU and Markwood Forest area. In December of 1915, the Cherry VaUey Railway opera­ tions were purchased by their partner company and both op­ erations, the logging and the railroad, were consolidated un­ der one name, Cherry VaUey Timber Company. Mr. Cliff Peerman of DuvaD, a former employee of the com­ pany, recaDed that they were a good ouUit to work for. Working in the rigging he made six doUars a day, plus the company furnished meals and the men lived in bunk cars. The camp cars were H by 60 feet divided into three sections, each section having sleeping accommo­ dations for ten men. The camp also included a kitchen car, two Before this time spruce had house and shops were located track, known as a "shoo-fly, " dining cars, a bathhouse and a never been considered near the present C. Y. 0 . Camp was built around the bridge in drying room. AU cars were desirable for lumber, but sud­ Bosco, and a siding was built, order to get by. electricaDy lighted and steam denly the airplane emerged as alongside the Milwaukee, that heated with hot and cold run­ an effective weapon in waf. extended from the present Lake The operations at Stillwater ning water. Practically overnight there Langlois Road almost to Griffin were sold to Robert S. Swan, On June 21, 1916, James came a huge demand for high­ Creek, plus a storage track who owned the Swan and Gowen, one of the founders of quality spruce in the construc­ about half this length. McKay Logging Company. the original company, died at tion of airplanes. Hundreds of A new ' Iog dump was con­ They took over some of the exist­ his Everett home at age 47 . Two uniformed soldiers (mostly strueted at LoweD, near Ever­ ing railroad and bought one of weeks later, F. E. Weyerhaeus­ from the Carolinas) were put to ett, and in September the oper­ Cherry VaDey's surplus Shay er joined the board of directors work in the woods, lifting prer ations at StiDwater and River· locomotives. They also bought and the company was reorgan­ ductions to heights even Paul view were a bandoned. Long up the StiD ..' ater Lumber and ized under the new name of Bunyan himself would find hard trains of camp cars, Liderwood Shingle Company miD owned by Cherry VaDey Logging Com­ toIJUltch. skidders and other equipment J. G. Dickson and George New­ pany. In December of 1924, the com­ were brought down from the begin, which later became In late 1917, during the height pany bought up the Security Stillwater site and moved over known as Swan's Mill. Logging of World War I, Cherry VaDey Logging Compa ny owned by the Milwaukee to the new site out the stands that '<::herry Logging Company, like many Joe Irving and located about 1"" near Griffin Creek. The Mil­ Valley passed up, they sawed others, was taken over by the miles south of Carnation. The waukee had a covered bridge lumber and poles at the miD and Loyal Legion of Loggers and foDowing March construction of o\'er the Tolt River and some of shipped them out by rail. Lumbermen, the United States a new series of logging lines this equipment was too large to Goveromemt Spruce Division. was begun at this site. A round- fit through it. A temporary ( Continued)

14 Meanwhile at the new site, By 1939, the remaining timber Cherry Valley carried out contracts had been sold to Wey­ logging operations around Lake erhaeuser Company t and on Langlois and the Tol! Water­ J&n. 19, 1948, after disposing of shed, adjoining the Snoqualmie il.'J remaining land, the Cherry Falls Lumber Company lands Valley Logging Company was on the south side. It was not un­ officially dissolved. common to see 100 cars o( logs a day brought out o( the new site. Weyerhaeuser's Vail opera­ Many times the locomotive tions continue to this day, run­ could be seen behind the Tol! ning two log trains a day from High School while the end o( the Vail to South Bay, dumping 90 train was still conning out o( the cars o( logs a day into the bay siding. and rafting them to the same mill in Everett. The log cars In 1926, most o( the remaining they use at Vail are also worthy timberlands were sold to Snc>­ o( mention, for they are the qualmie Falls ·Lumber same ones that were used by Company because of lower Cherry Valley Logging Com­ freight costs to Snoqualmie. In pany here in the Valley in 1918. 1928, Weyerhaeuser bogan So in a way, the mighty Cherry opening up their operations at Valley still rolls on. Vail, near Olympia, and needed Cherry Valley's equipment to get things started. The rails were taken up and the equi~ ment moved out, marking the end of active logging operations by the company. 1913, tall tim· ber on Stillwater Hill. The crew is building a landing. Court~.y of WEYerheetlser Archive.

Traction Company began build­ It is believed that Virginia Famous Names In The Valley ing what was to be an elec­ and Stella streets are named for By AIIell MIDer the Cherry Valley Shingle Com­ trically operated railroad the wives of Stephens and Bird. pany rnlIl at Duvall and the through the Valley. The plans Cherry and Valley streets, of Although many of the early Cascade Lumber Company rnlIl for electrification were dro~ course, speak for themselves. pioneers who helped settle this at Snohomlsh. ped, however, and the line was Speaking o( Cherry Valley, Valley and build what is now Bird Street, located one block later taken over by the Great here's the story on that name: Duvall have passed on, their north of Virgtnla, was named Northern. The second time was The first post office in the names willllve on, perhaps for- for John D. Bird, the man who in November of 1912 when W. P. Valley was located on the east ever, because of certain lan- actually founded Duvall. He Perrigo announced plans to riverbank, near the county line. dmarks named in their honor. comprised the other half of the build a trolley line from Kirk­ This office was later moved to a Stephens Street, for example, Stephens-Bird partnership and land through Cherry Valley and home on the present Clarence was named in honor of E. MiI- was active in nwnerous pr<>­ into Monroe. This plan died out Zylstra fann, because of flood­ ton Stephens, president of the motional schemes to help boost before a single spike was ever ing at its fanner site. A box Cherry Valley Townsite Com- the town. He foresaw a great driven. fastened to a wall in the kitchen pany, which owned and founded economic future for Duvall in Speaking of railroads, served as the official post of­ the town of Duvall. Mr, Ste- the construction of an electri­ Stewart Street was named for fice, and the owner of the home, phens also owned a half par- cally opera~~ ra_iIr~d system Alex Stewart, assistant chief Mr. Lucius Day, was appointed tnership in the Stephens-Bird offering excursions for tourists engineer o( the Great Northern the postmaster. When asked by Logging Company at High Rock through the Valley. This dream Railway. He was head of the the postal department officials (near the Monroe Honor was almost realized twice. The men who surveyed the G.N. line what name was to be applied to Farm), founded the Monroe Na- first time was in 1910 when the from Monroe to Tolt. Carnation the location, Mr. Day looked out tional Bank, was president of Everett and Cherry Valley also has a Stewart Street. of the window at his two bloom­ ing cherry trees and replled, "Let's call it Cherry Valley." (To Be ConUnued)

15 Famous Names In The Valley the foot of the hill in 1892. Spur in 1911, the name was (CoatIDuedl A favorite play site for changed to Stuart in June of Duvall's children over the years 1911 when the town of Toll railroad from 1921 WIlli 1941 has been the creek down in the changed its name to Carnation. By AIleD MIller ullllzlng the old Cherry Valley canyon below Taylor Park. This n.e name was chosen to honor LoggIng Company grade down stream, Coe and Clement's E. A. Stuart, fOWlder of the RIng Street was named for SUllwater HW. A holding pond Creek, flows beneath the hIP Carnation Company. Tom Ring, who operated the near the mill site, known as way Just south of town. It was Most of the originsI cattle T. M. Ring Logging Company Swan's MIll Pond, sUll existed named for the Coe and used to build the Carnation her­ on the hiIlalde west of town. The Willi a year or so ago when It Clement's LoggIng Company, ds were shipped into Stuart in site 01 this logging operaUon was drained during logging which bad a camp located Just special trains by Wells Fargo also bears his name, commonly operations in the area. U one north of the Bill McCormick Eltpress. There were cattle referred to as RIng HIlI. looks hard enough, the pond site farm. A split-cedar barn, which pens located alongside the spur Tom arrived in the Valley in can sUll be foWid by traces of housed the olten, remained to and a mIIlt platform was pro­ 1806 and began logging the hill­ fine sediment and a couple of mark the light for many years vided for shipment of milk side above the Rink DeVries water-logged logs that had set­ afterwards. (about 200 cans a day) to the tled to Its bottom. farm. With a donkey engine Tuck Creek follows the high­ Pacific Coast Condensery at located where Roy Lampaert's Portions of the mill foWl' way down RIng HIlI west of Monroe. meat packing house now stan­ dation are also sUll intact. town and flows into Round Lake In addlUon to cattle, the farm ds, the logs were yarded from a Carloads of lumber and poles and Long Lake. It was named also received shipments of hay, landlng on the Tom Roorda were cut at the mill and brought for the Tuck and Allen Logging atraw, beet pulp and other farm, down the ditch just north down the hill for shipment over grains. Race horses and prize­ the MIlwaukee to points back Company. In the years la89.sl of the slaughter house, to the they had a logging camp lo­ winning cattle were shipped river. About 1911, he moved his east. In later years the raUroad from this spur to points all over was abandoned and trucks were cated along this creek · at the operations to the hiIlalde weat of foot of the hill, with barns for the United States. Now all there town, establishing a camp at used. Is to mark the site is a wide spot There are several bodies of the Olten, bWikhousea and a Alder Sprtngs. The house with cook shack. The logs were along the riverbank where the the stone flreptace, opposite the water in the area named for cattle pens and aiding were early pioneers. One of these Is pulled by olten to Long Lake, dump road, was Tom RIng's where they were floated to the located; a pair of pile bulk­ house. HIs superintendent, Mr. Lake Margaret In !lIDa, a group heads, one on each side of the of young people were headed to river. A floodgate, located RIchardson, for whom Richard­ at the south end of the lake, river to mark the old COWlty Lake Hannah, which was a p0p­ son Street was named, lived in was closed unlll the lake was bridge; and an old weather­ ular hIldng and flabing spot. the other house. There was also filled with logs; then it was beaten sign in this author'. They caught a ride on a logging a large bWikhouse, cookhouse, opened and the logs rushed for­ collection that reads simply ... blacksmithy and shop. The car to the end of the Cherry "Stuart. " Valley Lumber Company th to the river and on to the cookhouse contained a large mills. Novelty HIlI is one location wood-burning range with a 1~ tracks and set out on foot for that has lost Its original rwne. their destination. Upon their re­ Bacus was once the name of a foot grill that was usually small community located near For many years it was known loaded with hot cakes, bacon, turn they stopped to take in as Finken HIlI, named for Fred some fishing at the then un­ the King/Snohomish cOWity eggs and potatoes, enough to line. It was named for H. Bacus, Finken an early Novelty resi­ feed the 150 hungry loggers. named lake. One member of the dent who lived on the present group, MIss Margaret Johns, a who operated a sawmill in back A railroad was built to haul of the present Clarence Zylstra Hiram Wallace farm. Mr. schoolteacher in Cherry Valley, the logs to the river. It followed home above the stream that Finken planted fnUt trees on his the Duvall-Woodinville Road to decided to step aboord an old crosses the road there. farm and, after the trees began the bottom of the hill and raft she foWid nut to shore. She Bacus logged off that whole to bear fnUt, he built a kiln, croased the Valley on a long stepped one foot onto the raft hillside, running the logs dried the fnUt and sold It in trestle. The pilings for this when It suddenly departed. The through his mill and shipping SeatUe for three cents a pound. bridge can sUll be seen at Long result was that she fell into the the lumber by rail from spurs He took in a partner named Lake, partway across the water and ever since the lake located on the MIlwaukee and Olson, who brought many of his Valley. Part of the old log dump has been known as Lake Mar­ Great Northern railroads friends from Sweden to work on sun remains, too, standing in Rare!. across the road. The lumber the farm, known as Finken and the river in front of the James McCauley Falla Is another used to build the old warehouse, Olson. The laborers were Wallace farm. When the logging favorite hiking and picnic spot. which stood on the riverbank housed in a camp above the operations were completed, the About two miles north of town, below the bridge Willi a few road across from the farm. equlpment was removed down on the hillside behind the Eldon years ago, was cut from this Fred Finken and Aleltander the river by barite. NeUson farm, there Is a small mill in 1912. Adair laid out and built the road Another logger who left his stream known as Hanatead Stuart Is a location some­ up the hill now known as name behind was Bob Swan. Creel<. This stream breaks into times seen on old maps of the Novelty HIlI. The road above the rock quarry a white waterfall which can be area. It was established as a There are many names con­ on sunwaler HIll, known as seen from the highway, especi­ railroad spur on the MIlwaukee nected with the history of this Swan's MIll Road, was named ally during heavy fWIoff. The Road about two mIlea north of Valley. All contributed in some for the small sawmill fWI by the falls were named for Father SUllnter and across the river way to its growth and some, Swan and McKay Logging Com­ McCauley, a Catholic circuit from CarnaUon Farms. 0rigin­ perhaps unintentionally, left be­ pany. They operated a logging rider who homesteaded near ally established as Carnation hind their names as a reminder to the present generation.

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Cold Weather, Snow And Floods

By AUen MJUer

As winter begins to set in and Ih. nights are colder, my thoughts turn 10 the stories told by old·timers of the real cold winters that hav~ been seen in Ihe Valley. Two that seem to THE MAIN STREET OF DUVALL, looking north, after the big snow of February, stand out as being unusually 1916. severe are the winter of 1914-15 Bu ild i ll ~s on th e right· hand side of the slreet are Dr . Gerkhen's home, Ihe Duvall State Bank, and the big snow of 1916. Arthur Iii, Store. Du vall Tailoring Co. Siore, L. D. Smith Blacksmith Shop, Duvall Theatre, In December of 1914 there oc­ Dc",,'s Hardware, John Allen's Garage, Martel's Hotel and Clausen's Pharmacy. BUildings curred a cold snap which was on the le fl ·i..ll d side of Ihe street are A. H. Boyd's General Store, A. P. Manion's Hardware, w,equaled in the memories of even the oldest inhabitants. A. P. Ma rion's Furnil ure, Brown's Confectionery, Moody's Dry Goods, Moose Hall, C . E. Lakes and ponds were frozen to f>1 ercereillJ 's BariM Shop. V. Wurzer's Mucis Store, C. F. Rehm's Butcher Shop, and Ihe a depth of 6 or 7 inches, logs and Fure,t Inl" shingle boits were frozen solid in the booms on the river, which promptly shul down the miils. The cold weather lasted The following wlrUer, another Harrison and Glen Fieming and gloom, for there was .~Ilost Ihree months, and ici· cold spell occurred and again were among those who lost their always some fun to be found . cles hung from the eaves to the Lon took advantage of the plen­ barns. The roof of Lon Brown's Duvall's hills, famous for good ground on many buildings. Hor­ tiful supply of ice provided by icehouse caved in and two barns sledding, were just as popular se troughs un the main street old Jack Frost. Towards the end at Mountain View fann col­ back then, and many late night were (rozen soUd and water of January, 1916, when every­ lapsed. At StiUwater the roof of sledding parties were to be pipes burst. one was beginning to think that the dining room at Camp One, found aU over town. The river was covered with a old man winter was packing up of the Cherry Valley Logging layer of ice that, in some places, the last of his icicles, along Company, caved in just before After the :;nows melted came extended clear across. Some of came the big snow. The snow the men came In for breakfast, the nood, and what n nood! The the farmers carried their started falling on Sunday, Jan. and in Seattle the dome of St. river rose an average of one cream came across the ice to 3D, and fell continuously James Cathedral collapsed. foot an hour, covering the towi, for shipment to the Mon­ through Wednesday, Feb. 2. Schools were closed and by Valley from hill to hill. Three roe Conden""ry. Some of the Fifteen Inches alone fell on Wednesday the trains were un­ feet of water in the shingle mill children living in the Valley Tuesday night, and three feet of able to get through. In times put out the fires in the boiler walked to school on the river. snow on the level was the like this, branch lines had to room, not only shutting down Lon Brown, who ran the con· average. operate as best they could, as the miU but also stopping the fectionery, seized upon a real The first concern was for the aU of the railroad's snow-fight­ now of electricity and water to opportunity. He hired a group of buildings, as they were not built ing equipment was busy in Ihe the town, The miU was the only the w,employed mill hands and to withstand the heavy snow mountains, trying to keep the supplier of both in those days. put them to work building an that had accwnulated on them. main Une opened. Bundles of shingles were float­ icehouse, located south of and A search was made for the light­ ing everywhere and the road beiow the present Silver Spoon weights of the town, to shovel A few fanners in the outlying across the Valley was com­ building. Then he put this gang the snow off the roofs of the areas managed to rig up a pleteiy under water. As always, of men to work cutting and already dangerously sagging makeshift 'sleigh, so that trips the waters finaUy receded and transporting ice from the lakes buildings. could be made to town for sup­ the painstaking job of cleaning and ponds west of town. Packed For some It was already too plies. Wild animals, driven by up was begun. Ufe in the Valley in sawdust from the miU, Lon late, and the heavy snow hunger, forgot their fear of man returned to nonnal until the was still using some of this brought down barns all over the and came right up to the back next big flood. original ice for his ice cream Valley. John Joyce, C. D. Ben­ doors of homes in search of (To Be CootiDlled) business two years later. ham, R. A. Thomas, Clarence food. But it was not all doom

17 THE VALLEY RECORD January 8, 1981

Remembered Floods

By Allen MIller

Flooding is something that has been going on in this Valley for thousands of years and will probably continue for thousan­ ds to come. Dikes and levees have been constructed to lessen their severity and through the years Valley people have learn­ ed to prepare for the Snoqual­ mie's annual flooding so as to keep losses at a mlnimum. Many of the houses along the river are built on foundations five to six feet high, In an effort to keep above the floodwaters. Some of the oldest barns In the Valley were built with the floors on huge cedar logs, that floated the livestock high and dry withln the barn walls. Recognizing signs of a flood have become "second nature" to many Valley residents. When THE CHERRY VALLEY Shingle Mill during the flood of 1916. the fall ralns are pouring down In the Valley, snow is comlng down In the mountalns and foot­ livestock inside; 'driving replace the old road which the canoe was boarded from an hills. Then, if the temperature wagons. cars and tractors to crossed the Valley at ground upstairs window. should get above 50 degrees higher ground; tying down any­ level. Meredith Owen recalled In that flood of '21, Valley with 8 south wind accompanied thlng liable to float away; and that the flood occurred in residents saw debris and logs by a warm rain,look out! getting out the family boat. December just a few weeks af­ floating upstream, the Valley Suddenly the mountainsides High water always brings ter the structure was com· being flooded more than a mi Ie will be turned into streams of with it a mixture of excitement pleted, and that the water rose wide, the wind and the tide from rushing water, tumbling rocks and dread, and whenever the 10 a point just below the bridge's the Sound pushing the water and trees In a mad rush to reach subject is brought up, long-time floor. Mr. Owen was, at that back toward the mountalns. the Valley and on to Puget residents will mention a few in­ time, living on his father's farm Always there is the hope that Sound. About 12 hours later the cidents they have experienced at the south end of the river the water will begin to recede river here in the Valley will turn or heard about. Some will show road. While attending to chores before the piano has to be set up muddy and start to rise. Long you various high water marks from a boat he was caught In a on four chairs and the valuables strings of foam drift along the chalked on a barn wall or door current and swept against the piled on a table. Also, there is center of the river, and a close frame, others will ratUe off the bridge, almost losing his life the job of cleaning up when bare observance of the water's edge various years that were parti­ before managing to grab hold of ground once again surrounds shows a continual ebb and flow. cularly severe: 1951, 1959 and, a bridge railing and to pull him­ the house. This was especially Each time a small wave hits the most recenUy,1975. seU to safety. difficult when the only water bank, it's a IitUe higher than the Because of changes In dikes One slory is told of a local available In the early days had preceding one. and gauges over the years it is farmer who cooked breakfast to be carried up the bank from Many times a farmer has technically impossible to say while wearing hip boots, the the same river that made the broken off a twig and stuck it in which years were the worst. muddy water swirling around the sand at the water's edge However, the general opinion just below the firebox On the awf~mess.~ only to return an hour later to seems to Indicate that the larg­ stove, while his family waited find it completely submerged. est flood in the Valley occurred upstairs. Many families moved ~ The rate of rise tells him that if In 1921. Into the upper story, tying a line 1.0(_ it keeps up It will be over its In that year a pile tresUe from their boat to the upstairs ~~, banks in a certain amount of elevaled roadway was built doorknob. Then when the water time and that there are a lot of across the Valley where the reached a point where the ------1 '~,~ ~------thlngs to be done: getting the present highway now runs, to family was forced to evacuate,

18 THE VALLEY RECORD January 29, 1981

The Valley House

By Allen Miller The small field located across and driven by Frank Smith. Af­ the river from the Everett ter making a lunch stop at the DeJong farm was the scene of Valley House, the stage would much activity in the early years return to Woodinville with pas­ of Cherry Valley. The first sengers, who could then board a school in the Valley was located Northern Pacific train for Seat­ here, just about across from the tle or the East. A one-way trip present Wayne Miller home. on the stage took from three to Here the first logging railroad four hours; the stage made one in the Valley was built in 1890, round trip per day except on and here the first highway in Sunday. the VaUey was located on the riverbank, intersecting with the A man named Guy Gallagher railroad at a point just north of ran a freight wagon from Mon­ and across the river from the roe about this time and would Cap Larsen home. frequently freight supplies for The highway was actually the Valley House. He also just a dirt wagon road running freighted meat and supplies for from Snohomish to Fall City, the logging company. They had THE VALLEY HOUSE . in 1911. was on the riverbank. built in 1900. Also located at the a freight shed located near the two miles north of Duvall. highway-railroad intersection road and would come down with was a tw()-story building, the their trainload of logs in the Valley House. Built in 1892 by a morning . House was used to quarter the pioneer businessman, Robert days, with many large duck Japanese laborers employed "Bob" Crossman, the building After dumping the logs they ponds and lots of game birds contained saloon and living would load the freight on the such as the Chinese pheasant. there. train and take it up to camp. quarters below and hotel rooms The fishing in this area was On the sweltering day of Au­ The log dump spur came down above. A livery stable was great, too, and many sports­ gust 30, 1915, near the end of a behind the building and the alongside the Valley House, men, including men of promi­ tw()-month drought, Joe Dough­ establishmenl became a sort of crossed the road on a curve and nence, such as the mayor of erty and Sam Hible were busy halfway house for travelers came in along the river to the Seattle, came to. the Valley grading road. "Take a last look passing through the Valley, a left of the accompanying photo. House for a tw()- or three-day at the old Valley House!" said "home away from home" for Me. Crossman's son, young hunting trip. The building con­ Sam suddenly. "Are they man and beast. Bobby, worked for the logging tained a balcony on the second tearing it down?" asked Joe, A horse-drawn stage was op­ company and was killed in an floor that gave a good view of who was unable to look at that erated out of Monroe, bringing accident while unloading cars the river. moment. UNo," replied Sam, travelers and loggers to the off the dump. After this Bob "they're sending it up!" Valley House. The logging Crossman sold the VaUey House Mr. Wallace kept the business company, it is said, kept three and bought a place in Monroe for one or two years and then Joe came around to look crews busy - one hiring on , one known as the First and Last sold it to a Mr. Hugo Steffen. He across the Valley and saw a bil­ working and one quitting. The Chance Saloon. Located near in turn sold it to a James Clark, lowing burst of orange flame stage also brought out traveling the Great Northern tracks, it who closed it down in 1912. That and a rising column of white salesmen who came to the got its name because it was the same year the Cherry Valley smoke rising from the VaHey Valley to sell their wares. The last chance to get a drink if you Logging Company moved its House. fare for the stage was around 75 were leaving town on the train equipment from Cherry Valley cents. and it was the first chance if you to Stillwater, which resulted in Maybe the workmen's rice Another stage, from Woodin­ were arriving in town. quiet a loss in business to the had baited dry and caught fire ville, was operating around Valley House. on the stove, or maybe a lurid 1906, picking up passengers James L. Wallace bought the past had at last caught up with from the Northern Pacific train Valley House from Crossman in The Carnation Milk Company the old building. At any rate, the at Gray's station, and bringing 1906 and proceeded to establish purchased the land shortly af­ crackling flames soon reduced them out to the Valley House. it as a headquarters for hunters terwards and did extensive land it to a pile of ashes_ This stage, a three-seated and sportsmen. The VaUey here clearing. The land is still refer­ wagon pulled by two large hor­ constituted some of the finest red to as "Little Carnation" by ses, was owned by Guy Frank hunting in the state in those many residents. The old Valley

19 11IE VAILEY RECORD February 21, 1911

Development Of Cherry Gardens CHERRY GARDENS being logged in 1907.

By Allen MIller Some of the roads that were In the lUes of the Duvall originally laid out have grown Ubrary '" a brochure once be- over and vanlahed with time. 10000inI to F. W. (Bill) Car"'on, Others still exist, but have had with local volunteer labor and giant old cedar stumps for shin­ and now preserved between two . their names replaced with nwn­ Iwnber furnished by the de­ gle bolts. plates of heavy glass. ThIs bers In recent years. Allen Road velopers. The building was l~ What really kept a payroll document was put out by Heck­ is now 318th Way N.E., Moun­ cated near the present fire hall going up In Cherry Gardens was enltamp-Germaln Company, tain View Road has kept its at the Intersection with the the logging camp run by Ste­ Seattle realtors, who developed name, 183rd used to be known Lake Margaret Road. The phens-Bird Logging Company the Cherry Garden tracts in as Willow Road, Cedar Road is building was later torn down by in the early 1920's. Located nor­ 191~18. now 3201h Avenue, Maple Road Harry MIller and the lumber th of the Garden tracts, the Located roughly two miles is 312th Avenue, and 18Sth Place used to build his home on the camp would hire teen-age boys, norIheut of Duvall, and com­ used to be called Hemlock river road, now owned by Bob old men and anyone In-between, prlalng about 4,000 acres, the Road. Kosten. so many residents found work Garden tracts were developed The first school In Cherry There was aLso a store in here. Some worked In the cam­ on land that had been logged Gardens was held In the Hart­ Cherry Gardens, owned by Ed­ ps, some in the woods, and some over by the Cherry Valley Log­ man house, with a Miss Kelly ward Englebrech. It burned up on the railroad track. Wages glngCompany. serving as the first teacher. A In the late teens, but was were $5 .50 per day, later cut to Purchased in October of 1914, couple of years later the school rebuilt. Mr. Oscar Nystrom op­ $4. the land was surveyed and plat­ was moved to a home owned by erated a shingle mill In the Gar­ ted by the Seattle engineering Arthur Dunton, and eventually dens and kept a few of the local (Continued Next Week) finn of Gardner and Gardner. a proper schoolhouse was built men employed cutting down

20 THE VAllEY RECORD March 1,1111

Development Of Cherry. Gardens

(CoDUnaed From La.t Week) plel, pun, cberrlel grapel and other fruita can l be pr0- By ADea MllIer duced In abundance. Cbestnuta, EngIlab waInuta, buttemuta, Heckenkamp-Germaln Com­ and hickory nuta are alao pany advertised extensively ralaed." (It ' mI&bI be worth throughout the United Stales to mentioning here that E. B. entice immigrants and seWers Heckenkamp, one of the devel­ to locate In Cherry Gardens. We open, wu an ardent preacher thought It might give the old­ about planting nut trees, eape­ timers up there a smile and .the c:Ia1ly chestnuts. He bImaelf newcomers an uplift to give a wu preparing to set out a plan­ description of the brochure. tation of chestnut trees and en­ On the cover of the leaflet Is a couraged anyone wbo would 11a­ picture of a conunon . ~ ten to do the aame. He claimed chained to a post titled that In about seven years a :z.3 "Drudgery of City Ufe," and acre plantation would be able to around his feet rises the smoke take care of one for the rest of from Innumerable factory his Ufe. In spite of b!gb hopes, ::::. ':,,:,: .:= -:; '::~: :7 : :: · ·. :~~ ::: .::::':,:: ::'~ :!:::. ~""'" chimneys. In the distance, In no plantations ever developed.) the Ught from the aetUng "Opportunities - For bog (rising?) sun stands a cozy col­ ra1sIng, dairying, fruIt raising, tage framed with abade trees, market gardening, poultry rais­ with a barn In the background, Ing and diversWed farming, garden and orchard alongslde'l these lands are unexcelled. west, and her sister cities of ern Bank and Trust Company of and In the sunbursts are written· " Water - There are running Tacoma and Everett, offer Seattle. these slogans: "Low cost of streams oli at least half of the many avenues for the sale of Ilving, Ideal family Ufe, Health tracts, and some of these are "The District - There are farm producta at lood pnc.. many big, thriving (anna In this and happiness, Your own boss, excellent trout Water streams. " Tranaporlatlon - The district, including the 400-acre No factory hours." Is to be bad anywbere at a depth Clicqo, Mllwautee and 8l . "A good bome, a good ranch of H. L. ADen, 1\ resident of eight to ten feet. DurIng the PIoul Ranwa)' and the G_t of 33 years, and the new 400- IlYlng and a good Investment driest months of the year these Nortbem Ranwa)" with leVenl await you at Cherry Gardens." acre atock fann of the Carna­ lands are always green with traIns each way cIaIq, olfer G­ tion Milk Company, both of to an acre, Ubera! "PI eeo plant Ufe, owing to the su\). ce11ent transportation faclUtiei. which adjoin Cherry Gardens. terms, Cherry Gardena." The irrigation. "Schools and stores - There brochure then goes on to give aU "PrIces and Terms - Cherry " Development - The first Is a lood store and lood Kbool Gardens are divided Into tracts the pleuant detalla concerning division of 715 acres of Cherry III the 1and, where enough aa. Cherry Gardena. of 5 to 30 acres each. The land Is Gardens sold so rapidly that a age bu been set aaide for ex­ priced at $30 to $60 per acre. "Location On ·tbe new addition of 1,700 acres has perimental lardens for the PurChaserS can 8IT8IIge with maIn1and, In KIng County, 18 been opened to seWernent. Al­ cblldren. Duvall, the nearest the company for the building of miles northeast of Seattle, and ready many thrifty farmhouses post office, alao offen lood modern bungalows, ready for easily accesalble to iIIe dty vta bave been estabUshed here In trading and educational occupancy. Ten per cent, cash, faclUtiea. Here Is altuated an goodroada. the past few months and many and easy monthly payments others are In course of devel­ "SOU - RIch, deep, perfectly excellent b!gb acbool, with a give you the ownership. balance'clay loam, from three opment. The lands, which bave manual training department. to seven feet In depth, underlaid been cuI-

21 z-See. D TIlE VAlLEY RECORD Marcb fI' 1981

J)U'IALL's PAST

Duvall's '~Big Mill"

By Allen MIDer

Down on the old Coy Brothers pany mosUy, but It was an­ fann by the river is a large con­ nounced that the mill would aiso crete block; all that remains of do custom cutting for people the foundation of "the mill that who brought In their own logs. never ran." The mill site also contained a Built in 1912 by the Stephens­ lath mill, planer mill and black­ Bird Lwnber and Logging Com­ smith shop, and it was assured pany on capital furnished by that there would be plenty of Job Eastern investors, the mill was openings for local people. an impressive looking structure Time passed - and passed - and it gave rise to many fond and passed. Each time it hopes that large-scale employ­ seemed that the mill would ment in the Lower Valley was finally begin operating some­ only a matter of time. thing would interfere, and the The Milwaukee Railroad built mill's opening would be post­ about 1,700 feet of spur track out poned for another six months or to the mill site, including 550 a year. THE ONLY KNOWN picture of Duvall's "big mill." over· feet of log dwnp over the river. Finally, one day the state looking the river ill the early 1900's. Carloads of timbers, pilings and boiler inspector arrived and mill machinery (some of it new, condemned three of the four some of it purchasEd from boilers. Only one, the planer's, stacked lwnber and took most Prince, about 1928, with a barge closed mills in Ballard and Snl>­ was approved. And the planer of it downstream, scattering in tow and loading machinery hornish) were brought in and was the only part of the big mill boards over field, farm and out of the mill. unloaded at the site. ever actually used. The Cottage thicket. Rwnor has it that there Today, almost 70 years later, Four huge boilers were set up Lake Lwnber Company (known was . a small building boom the big mill is still a subject of to provide the steam power, and 89 the Bear Creek Mill) would among the farmers along the controversy among the old­ four taU smokestacks standing haul its lwnber over to Du­ river road a short time later. timers of the Valley. Some of in a row gave the neighborhood vall, finish it on the planer, and In 1923 , the mill was dis­ the people will conjecture why a real industrial look. Everyone ship it out again by rail. So the mantled and sold piecemeal. it was ever built in the first was filled with happy expec­ smoke did pour forth from at some of the equipment going up place, stating that it was strict­ tations. least one of the tall stacks and to the new Swan Mill on Stossel Iya " put up" deal to sell lois in Although the mill's official the whisUe did blow at times. Creek. Ralph Raylor and Jesse the then-new town. name was "Duvall Lwnber Ralph Taylor worked as lwnber Douglas hauled loads of brick Company," the local residents yard foreman during the time out of the site when the boilers In any event the big boom dubbed it the "big mill," which that Bear Creek Mill stored were taken down shortly after turned out to be a little squeak, It is still called today. The logs its lwnber at the mill site. World War I. Vern Davidson, of and how many people bought for the mill were to come from In 1921, an unusually high Carnation, recailed coming up­ propet1y in Duvail to cash in on the High Rock Logging Com· flood caught the yard full of river on tht> stern-wheeler Black it will probably never be known.

22 TIlE VAu..EY RECORD March I', ltal

leak's Grove Mrs. Nellie Miller recaUed By Allen MIDer that most of the children were given 2S cents to spend, which A minor historical event took lasted them aU day. On one 0c­ place in the VaUey a couple of casion her father gave each of weeks ago. It was quietly ac­ the kids 50 cents apiece, but ad­ complished without ceremony ded that it wasn't intended that or speeches by civic leaders. they spend it all. The event was not covered by Entertainment consisted of the news media, and there was horseshoes, a basebaU game, no one in attandance to mourn and various races which were its passing. There are probably FOURTH OF JULY picnic at Leak's Grove, 1912. Front held up and down the section of many local residents, in fact, road between the present Ar­ who are still unaware that it row, left to right: Unknown, Julia Riese, Ella Gibson , Lela thur Herman and Ward Roney took place. Thorp. Back row, left to right: Unknown, Lillian Russeli, farms. Also, there were speech­ The event I am referring to is Lela Thayer, Stella Riese, Ada Chipman, Merta Gibson, es given by prominent local the cutting down and removal of Marjorie Main and Nellie Thayer. Can anyone identify ranchers and elected officiala, the last few maple trees on the those unknown lad ies? These, sometimes lengthy or­ southeast corner of the Ward deals, were patiently waited out Roney farnn, which was aU that ;::::::::.;.:::::::::::::.:.:.:.:.:.:.:::.;.:.:::.::::;::::::.;.::;:;.;.;.;.;.:.:.;.:.;.;.;.;.:.;.;.;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;::::::::::::.;:::::::::::::::; by the children, who I.onged to remained of "Leak's Grove." return to their games. To present-day residents of saved his life by applying a Pearl Funk's layer cake, topped All In aU, the picnics were a Duvall the name Leak'. Grove flour and water solution io his with about four inches of honest­ popular attraction and were probably means nothing, and wounds, which stopped the to-goodness, old-fashioned held for many years. The Ward the trees ... just another clump bleeding. whipped cream. Roney family has renewed this of old maples. To the old- Getting back to the picnics, Another treat for those at­ tradition for the past couple of timers, however, the name con- however, the Leaks made the tending was ice cream. In the years by staging an annual hoe­ jurs up memories of picnic bas- grove available to the com­ earliest years it was made by down at the same site. But now, kets, ice cream cones and saclt munlty, and a buge affair was hand crank right on the spot, without the shade from those races. You see, Leak's Grove held every Fourth of July. but in later years it was shipped old maples, it just won't be was the site of the annual Four- In talldng to some of the older from A. B. Sprau and Company quite the same. Besides th of July picnics plus other residents recently, many mem­ of Monroe to DuvaU on the Mil­ p,oviding shade for picnics, the lesser events aU through the orles were recaUed. People waukee Railroad In fiv.,.gaUon old trees also served as an an­ summer months In the early came by horae and buggy, and containers paclted In ice in oak chor for donkey engines used in years. the horses would be lined up barrels_ After Lon Brown 0p­ breaking up log jams at the The Leaks arrived in the Val- along the road and a plle of hay ened his confecUonery store In swing bridge, which was dis­ ley sometime In the 1890's. provided to keep them con­ DuvaU, he provided much of the cussed in an earlier article. Homesteading the farnn now tented. Ralph Taylor recaUed refreslunents. The trees were taken out for owned by Ward Roney Sr. were that the attendance at these Meredith Owen recalled that good reason, however. They Herb Leak, his wife and two functions would sometimes be the first ice cream cone he ever were very old and their trunks children, Lloyd and Mary. Mr. as high as 150 people. The tasted was at Leak's Grove, and were becoming rotten. It would Leak was a retired sea captain women wore ankle-length it aold for only five cents a cone. only have been a matter of time and was Involved in a hunting gingham skirts and most of the Pink lemonade, candy and fir.,. before one feU across a power accident here in the VaUey men wore overalls. A swarnn of crackers were also sold at a line or possibly a passing car, so which resulted in the left side of bees in one of the trees kept a stand on the grounds. The fir.,. their removal was for the best. his face being blown off by his few of the guests dodging for works stand was decorated in However, it is kind of sad to see own shotgun. A quick-thinking cover. One treat that Ralph the traditional red, white and such a memorable landmark girl of 17 named Gladys Taylor looked forward to was a slice of blue bunting. vanish forever.

23 11IE VAlLEY RECORD March 21, 1981 Train Time By AIleD Mlller It seelllll hard to imagine that at one time Duvall residents could purchase a train ticket to anywhere in the country from a depot below town and could board a passenger train to begin their journey from that very same depot, which now sits among the modern mobile homes south of the bridge. In fact, Duvall once had two railroad depots, situated only a few hundred feet apart, op­ erated by rival companies. Both served with passenger trains, offering connections to .: ; ; anywhere you wanted to go. It was in the first part of July, THE CHICAGO. Milwaukee and Puget Sound stalion at Du vall in Ma y of 1912. This 1910, that the Great Northern building now stands just south of and below the present bridge . track-layers arrived in Cherry Valley. The original Methodist Burroughs, lived in a company cost of '1,~ . 91. It had a In 1942, the train order sema­ Church, Hix's store (now Duvall house alongside the tracks at waiting room, telegraph office phore in front of the depot was Motor Parts) and the com­ the foot of Stephell.! Street. He, and a freight room. J. Roy removed and the building was munity hall (now Duvall Books) along with two SOll.!, made up Lucas was Duvall's first Mil- remodeled into living quarters were located on the hillside the section crew. waukee agent. ArrIving in Oct()- for the section foreman. In 1955, above Roy Gustafson's plant to The GN's brief monopoly en­ her, 1911, he worked out of a the building was sold to Ray the north. The Big "G" moved ded with the arrival of the Mil­ temporary boxcar slation until Burhen, who moved it acro!>..' the church and Hix's store to waukee Road's branch line the depot was built. Others who the tracks to where it now slan- . their present sites and built the from Cedar Falls to Everett. served as Milwaukee agents at ds. Once the bustling nerve cen­ parsonage as part of the right­ Originally built as the Chicago, various times were: E. S. Bar- ter of the community where of-way agreement. A narrow Milwaukee and Puget Sound rett, George F. Herley, Stanley news, both good and bad, were cut was made through the hi\l at Railroad, the name was A. Bourke and R. P. Rozelle. tapped out over the telegraph that time, just wide enough for changed to Chicago, Milwaukee Harold T. Weeks worked as tel- key and sounder, where fami­ the track to run through. and St. Paul in 1913, but was egraph operator at Duvall in lies gathered to joyously greet The G N depot, opened May dubbed "Milwaukee Road" 1913; he went on to become a arriving friends and relatives, 15, 1911, was a fairly large almost from the start. songwriter of some renown. or sadly bid them fond building; 118 feet long by 24 feet The Milwaukee began In addition to the railroad, Ibe farewells, where iumber, wide. The building was divided grading through the Valley in Milwaukee depot also served as shingles and produce were ship­ into two waiting rooms, a tele­ June, 1910. It paralleled the Big the office for the Continental ped to markets which provided graph office and a freight ware­ "G" for most of its length bet­ Telegraph Company and Wells much of the community's ec()­ house. The GN agent was Mr. L. ween Tolt and Monroe. They Fargo Express. nomy. Once brightly painted in G. Waggoner, who, with his wife were iocated on the west side of Besides several freight and the Milwaukee's traditional Meda and son Ross, built and the GN, so consequently they log trains a day passing over orange and maroon color lived in the house now owned by were forced to hug much of the the tine, the Milwaukee also ran scheme, the building is now Bob Cronin on Bruelt Road. riverbank through the Valley. their passenger train four times only a shell of its fonner seU, The GN ran what is known' as North of town, they day-lighted a day. The first arrived at 8:30 The iast train rolled through a "mixed" train, meaning that the cut the GN made and, as a.m., returning up the valley at Duvall over eight years ago, it carried both passengers and part of their right-of-way agree­ 11 a.m.; down again st 3 p.m. and even the raUs are gone now. freight. The train usually con­ ment, were obliged to move the and going up at 7:30 p.m. The sisted of two or three bozcars old ' community hall to its fare was 25 cents to Monroe, and two varnished coaches on present site. The laying of the one-way. ' the rear. The locomotive was siding at Duvall began on May Number 298, a GN class E-'I I~ 7, 1911, and the Milwaukee's The GN abando-ned' its line in wheeler, built by Schenectady depot was opened Jan. .8, 1912. 1917 and the Milwaukee pulled in 1889. Measuring 20 by 48 feet, the off passenger trains in 1930, and The GN section foreman, Mr. frame building was built at a closed the depot in 1936. (Poem b y Ralph Tay l o r, next p age)

24 ''The Railroad"

The line is gone, they've closed it down. The gleaming rails have turned to brown. The station closed, deserted, bare. Decay and rubble, everywhere. Boarded windows, broken glass Platform rotted, choked with grass No busy bustling friendly life. Uke hello Joe, how's your wife. No slamming doors, no busy folk No chimney stacks or pulfing smoke No waved farewells or lovers meeting at night, no whistie blows No red or green from oil lamp glows No tinkle from the signal box. No down, no up, no fast, no slow the 10: 15 went years ago.

By Ralph Ta~" or. Duvall

TIlE VALLEY RECORD Aprlll,llli Riverboat Recollections By Alien MIller There Is no doubt that the gen­ The flrst boat to make a com­ Marne would leave Snohomish measured 175 feet, carried pas­ tly flowing Snoqualmie River mercial trip up the river from at 8 a.m. and reach Fall City by sengers and offered excursion adds much to the scenic beauty Everelt was the side-wheeler 6 p.m., if all went well. She tripa up the river. Chartered ex­ of the Lower Valley. When Topy in 1864. Piloted by Captain would layover in Fall City for cursions were a popular source viewed from atop the hills, it Hyde, it went up as far as Cady­ the night and return the next of riverboat business. Mrs. can be seen twisting and wind­ ville (SnohOmish) with the scow day, stopping frequently for Nellie MIller, whose family in!: its way toward the Sound, Minnehaha. In October, 1875, freight, mail, passengers or to lived In the old Coy house along like a huge shimmering ribbon the Fannie Lake became the take on cord wood. the river when they first glistening in the sun. In addition first steamboat to ply the wa­ arrived In Cherry Valley In to its visual appeal, it provides ters of the Snoqualmie, cOming The late Leo Leyde told of 1903, recalled standing on the recreation [or swirruners, boat· up as far as Mose Morris' riffle hauling half-cord sledloads of riverbank watching and waving ers and fishermen as well as near ToU. wood down the old county road to the people on one of these ex­ home for many varieties of ani­ One year later history was behind Sanford Chapman's cursion boats as it passed. The mals and waterfowl. made when a brand new boat Sand and Gravel shop to the boat even carrle

25 ONE OF the boats operated by Carnalion Farms to trans­ THE LAST TIME the Cherry Valley swing bridge was port milk to the condensory in Monroe before the railroads opened is pictured here . The boat h~ading downstream is were built _ the Lorna of Everelt. She was the last boat to operate on the river above Duvall and was used by Carnation Farms (CoDUoued Next Weelt) to freight their potato crop across the river near Stillwater.

THE VALLEY RECORD AprU 16, 1981

Riverboat Recollections

PartU By AIleD MIller A boat frequently seen on the ahead!" The captain would re­ Cherry Valley. Launched in 0c­ was Uke trying to harness a river was the snagboat Skagit. ply, "What is it?" "It looks Uke tober, 1910, she had a capacity race horse for spring plowing. Built in 1885 and operated by the a bunch of snags ... no wait, it's of 2S tons of freight and could When the river was low, there U.S. Environmental Depart­ a flock of ducks." "Are they run at all stages of water. She was the additional problem of ment, she covered all of Puget swimming or walking?" met an untimely end and sank knowing where the main chan­ Sou.~d and the navigable rivers. IIThey're swimming, sir." at the dock after only a few nel of water was flowing at each Her crew perfonned dredging "Well then, there's enough runs. particular bend of the river. A operations, removed snags and water for us. tI The City of Denver hauled boom of logs could easily hang pulled out "deadheads" (sub­ Some of the boats that were hay from the Valley around up in shallow water if the pilot merged logs with one end sunk frequent callers in the Valley in­ 1892, which was sold to Seattle didn't know the channels. fast in the river bottom and the cluded the Alki, owned by livery stables for the city's dray other end at an angle just below Brown and McCall. It made its horses. The T.C. Reed made Probably the most well­ the surface of the water) - a first trip up the river April 7, chartered trips bringing remembered boat on the river menace to navigation. 18112, and was one of the last to logging supplies into the Valley was the Black Prince. Built in The Skagit was replaced in make trips upstream as far as and sometimes towed logs on Everett in 1901 by Char Ie. 1914 by the Swinomish, which in Fall City. The Forbes brothers the downriver trip. Wright and Captains Charle. turn was replaced by the Pres-­ owned two boats commonly Towing logs was a highly spe­ Elwell and Victor Pinkerton, ton in 1929. The Preston is still seen on the river, the Lucerne cialized art, requiring constant she was the pride of the Snl>­ operated by the Anny Corps of and a stern-wheel tug, the attention to keep the logs from homish-Skagit River N a viga­ Engineers and remains the last Loma. The Lorna made her last Jamming or being beached on a lion Company. She had a hull active stern-wheeler in the trips up the river in 191:>-1917 to sandy bend. A tow of logs con­ length of 93 feet, and overall Puget Sound area. freight potatoes for Carnalion sisted of several sections, a length of 112 feet. Her breadth Prior to 1895, none of the Fanns across the river to their huge mass of heavy timber that of beam was 19 feet and depth of boats were equipped with elec­ railroad spur at Stuart. She was went according to any wild cur­ hold was five feet. She was tric lights, so it was always the last boat to travel the river rent. When towing logs with a powered by twin engines which necessary to have someone on above Duvall. stern-wheeler, the captain received steam from a 100 deck who could watch through Other boats were the Elk and would back his vessel down­ horsepower brickyard boiler. the fog, snow or darkness. The the Gull, owned by Charley stream_ Trying to hold back the lookout would call, "Object Amos, who also owned the mass of logs in swift current (Continued)

26 She was retired in 1935 and week in the form of bread, pie. sold to the Everelt Yacht Club, and cakes, and also pounds and which used her for their club­ pounds of steak (at 18 cents per house for many years. Vic Pin­ pound in those day.), aU cooked kerton's sister, Mrs. Nellie Ev­ in a 6 by 8 foot galley right ensen, recalled many years ago above the boiler room. II. • • that she was cook aboard the and how those men could eat!" Black Prince for 18 months in she said. 1902-1903. She fed the fivE>-man crew 50 pounds of fiour per (Continued Next Week)

LEFT: Rive rboat Fo rrester on a tide beach on the bay. The boat was frequently seen on the Snoqualm ie River. Right: The snagboat Skagit north of the swing bridge.

THE VALLEY RECORD Aprll23, 1981 ~~n't$!Jiifm.~__ ~ ~!.'%~1!!.~~",_tV _ !B1~4@ 1891; the CUpper; and a launch cade Mountains than any Riverboat Recollections named WlId Duck, which made steamer before. Her amazing three trips a week in 1903, feat was duplicated by the sidE>­ Partm condensery on a boat operated carrying light freight and pas- wheeler Pearl the following by carnation Fanns. Produce, By Allen MJlJer sengers between Everett, Sno- year. hay and booms of logs com­ bomlsh and Cherry Valley. Before ending these riverboat The Black Prince became the prised most of the cargoes Another was the Grace G, a recollections, we might recall last boat to come up the picked up on downriver trips. diesel-powered towboat used that at one time some of the Snoqualmie River in 1928. She Delivered upstream were gro­ frequenUy for breaking up log largest hop fields In the state brought a barge up to the Coy cerle., logging supplies, Jams at the old county swing were located upriver In the brothers' farm below Duvall to machinery, steel ralls, logging bridge. Meadowbrook area. One of the load machinery out of the "big locomotives and lwnber for There was the Cascldes,. amazing sights to be seen on the mill" when it was d1smanUed. early buildings along the river. ISS-foot stem-wheeler lDIIt at river at certain times of the The river dropped on them Arthur HIx kept his general Ustalady In 1864 and pUded by year were great nwnbers of while they were there, and they store at Cherry Valley well capt. George Gave, 8Jd the canadian Indians making their were forced to wait until the stocked In the early days with cascade, aSS-footer billt In way upstream In long lines of river rose the next day before groceries brought upriver by June, 1904, by the Caocade canoes, to work the season out they could leave, recalled Vern boat He would bike to Kirk­ Cedar Mill in Snohomish. picking hops. Davidson of carnation, who was land, ferry across Lake Was)). There was also the May With the coming of the raU- firing on the boat at the time. Ington to SeatUe, and leave his Queen and the 7>foot Edith R. roads in 1910 and improved Many of the farmers had land­ grocery order with Cooper and Her captain was Simon P. Ran- roads for automobiles, the old ings built on the river from LevI, to be delivered next trip dolph and .he made history In riverboats soon faded from the which their freij{ht could be upriver. 1883 by becoming the first stem. scene. loaded or unloaded. Many far­ Other names recalled are the wheeler to reach the foot of Soo- ms shipped milk to Monroe'. J. H. Vincent, a 7f>.footer built in qualmleFalls,closertotheCu- (Photos next page)

27 THE SNAG BOAT Skagit on the ri ve r near Duvall. UNIDENTIFIED RIVERBOAT towing a log boom down the Snoqualmie River to sawmills in Everett and Sno· homish.

THE VALLEY RECORD May 7,1981 and vine maple trees surround­ :::::::::::.:::::::::::::::.:::::::::::::::.::::::::::::::::::::::':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;::::::::;:::::;:;:;:;:::;:::;:::;:;:::::;:::::::::;:;:::;::: ed by soft swampy ground and the hillsides covered with giant flr and cedar trees, and no Cherry Valley's Schools roads, only narrow trails weav­ ( Continued) ing through the trees.

By Allen Miller With the dedication ceremon­ lunch hour. So the only thlngs ies of the new addition to the which had to be purchased were Cherry Valley Elementary the nails, window glass, hinges School last week, my mind went and lock. Strong hands, split­ back to 1957 when the present ting wedges and a few com­ school building waS opened and munity get-togethers (picnic the old tw<>-story building was lunches provided by "the ladies) closed after 46 years of use. - and there you are, a new The first school In this area school. was a community project, built In 1885 there were 14 pupils at in 1879. The land was donated the school, and a young teacher by a Mr. William McDonald, named David W. Craddock ar­ across the river from the pres­ rived to teach. His salary was ent Wayne Miller farm. A large $50 a month. As there was only cedar tree located on the land $75 in the treasury, he taught a was also donated and was felled &-week term and boarded at by the men of the community. Mrs. Lucius Day's for $10 a The tree was split into boards month. Before coming to and shakes for the building, and Cherry Valley, he had taught a there was enough lumber left to &-week term at Tualco, near build benches and desks for the Monroe, and from Cherry THE FIRST SCHOOL IN DUVALL. built· In 1879. Is pupils and a desk for the teach­ Valley he went to Novelty for shown here several years aft er it was aband,!ned . This er. Someone donated a chalr for another 6 weeks. school was located ahllllt 2 mil'" north of Duvall along the the teacher to sit on. Try to lrnagine this rough­ What remained of the log was hewn building nestled in a for­ east bank of the r iv~ r. opposite the present Wayne Miller used as a seat by the children at est of wild crab apple, willow (arm .

28 Children trudge their way to In 1907 the one-acre school­ Ing was used by travettng hobos school, some of them coming yard and the little white school­ who drlfted in from the nearby for miles through the mud and house were abandoned for a railroad tracks. Smoke could be rain. Their laughter echos two-acre schoolyard adJoinlng a seen issuing from the building through the forest as they play. four-acre donation made earlier at t1mes as they buUt fires to Thls was a sturdy generation. by James Duvall. This was lo­ cook their food or keep out the The building was last used by cated across the street from the chill. The building and land the public In 1902, when It was present Leo Dougherty home at were auctioned off and sold to used as a cookhouse during a the present Cherry Hill Apart­ H. L. Allen, who eventually tore camping outing held that year. ments. The old school sat empty It down about 1920. The building was destroyed In for several years, and Ralph (CODtluUed Next Week) land clearing operations in Taylor recalled that the build- April, 1914. . . . The second schoolhouse, built in 1893, was a little more pre­ tentious and cost the commun­ ity eJUlctiy $714.50. The work was done by a Mr. Bancroft and the building was located about one-half mile south of the first school, across the river from the Stan Chapman farm. Originally a one-room affair, the building was later divided into two rooms.' Some of the teachers who taught at this school were Mrs. Senna Clark (the mother of the late Johnny Clark), Mr. Jason McElvain and Miss Margaret Johns (the mother of the late Don Funk). There are still many residents living In Duvall today who lear­ ned their "three R's" in this THE FIRST SCHOOL in Cherry Valley, pictured some­ school, including Mrs. Nellie time in the 1880's. was built in 1879 and abandoned in Miller, Mrs. Pearl Funk, Mr. 1893. II was located about 2 miles north of Duvall. Leo Dougherty and Mr. Albert Denolf. Two things that most old­ t1mers remember about this schoolyard are a stile over the fence in front of the buildlng and a huge rosebush that grew out of a stwnp near the stile. The rosebush grew Into a huge plant that completely covered the old stwnp and was a spec­ tacular sight of beauty when in bloom. Another fond memory is an incident concerning a tree which stood behind the school. The boys were playing Bear and Hunter during the noon hour. Eddie Rible is the bear and climbs up Into the tree. Spike Murdock spots Eddie, points an Imaginary gun and shouts, "Bang!" Eddie drops from the tree and hits the growld with THE SECOND SCHOOL built in Cherry Valley, built in great force. "You shouldn't 1893, was located about a half mile south of school num­ shoot me when I'm up so high!" ber one I across th e river from the present Stan Chapman says Eddie as he rubs his bruises from the fall. farm .

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By Allen MIller The little white schoolhouse. than any of the previous struc­ down along the river, was aban­ tures - 2~ stories, the base­ doned In 1907 and a new, larger, ment being only partially below two-room school was built on a grade. six-acre school yard behind the The basement contained a present apartments at Country manual training classroom on Crossing, west of the present one side, a lunchroom on the school. other I and lavatories and boiler The cost of school number room In the back. The first noor three was $3,700, and the ori­ consisted of two large ciass­ ginal two rooms were later di­ rooms, which held the lirst­ vided, making four rooms. second and third-fourth grades, Behind the school was a fuel while the upper noor class­ house that held coal, which was rooms held the filth-sixth and carried In to the big pot-bellied seventh-eighth grades and also stove In the center of the build­ contained a smaller room used Ing. Margaret Johns and Ger­ as the sick room. trude Morton were two teachers The four-room school number who taught here. They boarded three, located behind the new .cross the street In the building building, was connected by a that was built as a parsonage passageway between the two for the Cherry Valley Methodist schools and housed the princi­ Episcopal Church. Since there __.. _ pal's office as well as the four was no resident preacher In high school grades. This re­ those days, the building was PICTURED IS the Cherry Valley School buildin9 number mained the high school building rented out to the teachers. . four in 1911, shortly alter it was built. Note -that the untill94J, when the high school One item that was trans­ was cOQSolidated with Car­ m()n~ey ,puzzle tree and other shrubs ~ave only re~e'ltly ferred from school number two nation and became Toll. to the new school on the hili was .been planted. These tre.es attained a height almost as tall The new schooi was built at a the bell. At a school reunion as the building itsell by the time the school was closed in cost of $10,000, and was con­ several years ago, Mrs. Maxine 1957. The trees were eventually removed, as they were in structed entirely of wood, ex­ Main Scott, a former student, danger of toppling over in a windstorm,. cept for the concrete basement. recalled that the bell's tolling Only the lin est old-growth reminded her of a spot along the straight-grain lumber was school trail that represented a used, and the lOterior walls ti lI.mean - in other words, at were plastered, as were the that point the bell's tolling in­ ceilings. The school opened In formed the children whether September, 1910, with 80 pupils, they were early, on time or late, and by the following year, there depending on how far they were were 139 students enrolled. from the spot. Among the first to teach at this In 1910, when Duvall was plat­ school were Miss Muncaster. ted, the Great Northern Rail­ Miss Hartzell, Miss Eleanor road was being built through. Jones, Miss Josephine Bulke­ the Valley, logged off lands ley, Mr. W. J. Johnson, prin­ were sold and cleared for far­ cipal, Mr. George Whitfield and ms, and the area boomed with Miss Jennie V. Getty, a sister to people arriving to setUe the new multi-millionaire J. Paul Getty. town. The enrollment at the The late J. Paul hlmsell was a school doubled and tripled until frequent vlsitor to this area it was decided that a larger back when he was a young boy, school would have to be pro­ when he and other members of vided. his family would stay with their Excavation for the new schooi A REAR VIEW of Cherry Valley School number four in 1957 shows school number three, which was built in 1907 relatives, the Allens, on their was directly In front of school farm on Cherry Creek. building number three. This and was used as the high school building alter the new new school was much larger two-story building was completed in 1910. (Continued)

30 School number four was well­ constructed and remalne.! in re­ markably sound condition for many years. Eventually, however, new building codes and the ravages of many fe et and Father Time took their toU . In later years, the second noor was closed off due to inadequate fire exits and shortly after­ wards the building was con­ demned and a special levy was passed to build a new school. At the end of the 1956-67 school tenn, the building was closed for the last time on Tuesday, June 4,1957, at 11:30 a.m, 'Three of the last teachers to work in this building still reside in the Duvall area: Mrs. Mildred Pickering, first grade; Mrs. Edna Wallace, second grade; and Mrs. Margaret McCor­ mick, third grade. By the following tenn, the new eight-room brick and con­ crete-block school was com­ EDNA ANDERSON AND HER 5TH AND 6TH GRADE CU.SS at Cherry pleted at a cost of Just over Valley School about 1917 identified as: Ethel Benham Sinn Pazer; Enid Tay­ $200,000. School buildings three lor Elken; Ava Miller Harder Peters; Bernice Funk Button; Clea Hayes; Nellie and four and the old gym­ Date; Ella Winters; John Riese; Hilda Biderbost Weishaupt; Mary Hix Ander­ nasium and shop which stood son Tucker; Doris Myers Montague; Eileen Joyce; Maxine Main Scott; and east of them were sold and Earl Benham. razed. The lower story of school number four was remodeled in­ to the present apartment building. (Next week - Other IcboolB ID the Lower Valley.)

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hIatory of their own, I will try to the southeast corner of the in­ hill towards Redmond. After tell a Uttle about them, too. tersection, where you tum off the railroads arrived, the Novelty Moe( of these commWllties Hlgbway 203 to go up to the Pacific Coast Condensery at w.t today In name only, as cemetery. Monroe began getting most of By Allell MJlJer reference points on a map, or Around September of 1911, the creamery" business, names on a street sign, such as the store was sold to a Charles In September. 1914, Mr. Sam­ For the past couple of weeks, Cherry Valley Road, Novelty WUcox, who operated it for .eUus moved his creamery we bave dIacusaed the develop­ HIll Road, High Bridge Road, about 18 months and then sold It store acrosa the Valley to the ment of the schools In Cherry etc. At ooe time, however, these to Ernest SarnzeUus in March, present Novelty .lte and added Valley and Duvall, and how commWllUes were small towns 1913. For several years prior to the building onto the fonner they prosreased from a one­ in themselves, complete with thIa time, Mr. Sarnzellus had WlIcox ,tore, thereby enlarging room apUkedar aback to the atoru, churches, lumber and owned and operated a small the building. Over the years Mr. modem brick and concrete shingle mills, creameries and store and creamery located dI­ SarnzeUus mode many addi­ structures wblcb comprise the scboola. rect1y across the Valley on the tions and Improvements to the present school This week let's Novelty Is one of the oldest hillside above the lntersecUon store. In 1916 gasollne pumps take a look at some of the commWllties in the Lower with Northeast 12tth and West were Installed to serve the scboola that were located In Valley, having been settled in Snoqualmie Valley Road Nor­ growing number of automoblles varioUi small communities 1171 by George Boyce, who theast. that were appearing in the located throughout the Valley. named It after his home town of orne creamery proouctca but­ Valley. And, because these com­ Novelty, Mo. Allred Pickering ter which was sold locally in the mWlltl.. bave an interesting bullt a general store located at Valley and to residents on the (Continued)

31 In addlUon to groceries, the Novelty store also sold catUe feed, hardware, household goods and fann machinery. The THE FIRST Novelty School, Great Northern Railroad built a spur track at Novelty and the pictured about 1907, was .tore had a warehouse located behind the present alongsIde It to receive .hlpmen­ Gertsma home. ts by rall. After the GN was abandoned In 1917, the MIlwau­ kee laid a coMecUon from their track to the GN spur and con­ Unued to pravlde raU service for many years. The first actual school buIIdlng In Novelty was con­ Mn. NeWe MJller, of Duvall, structed In the early 11190'. on a student at Novelty from 1904 the hili behind the Daniel untU lelO, recalled that the boys McKay home, presenUy the built two log cabin style play­ George Gemma residence. houses (one for the boys and one Among the students attending for the glrlll) on the school play­ In 1893, !be following names wlIl ground. WhIle the boys built the be famUJar to the old-timers of houses, the girls gathered moss the VaUey: Walter Peterson, to chink the logs. Bertie Pickering, James NeWe alllo recalled that the McKay, WI1\Iam and LonnIe school'. water was packed from Adair, and Leo Leyde. Ed McKay'. and that a dlpper was Peterson, of Kirkland, started used, which everyone drank out school bere In 1898. of.

Pictured Is the Novelty School playground about 1908. The two log cabins In the background were built by the school boys as playhouses, one for the girls and one for the boys. Some of the people in this photo Include Mr. and Mrs. Colgate (teachers), Mr. Daniel McKay, Nellie , Lela and Oils Thayer, John and Mary Clark, Lewis, Ivy, Bonnie and Belle Pickering, and Agnes and Olga Quaale.

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32 THE STUDENTS of Mrs . Colgate's class at the Novelly School participated in a nag drill , circa 1908. Note the old desks wllh the ink wells . the kerosene lamps on the walls and the old "Regulator" clock.

adequate playground site, the days, some store-bought cook­ The late Johnny Clark once new school was located on top of Ies! recalled that the boy. cleared the hill near the Boshaw home. Meredith Owen recalled his ont a .pot on the hillside for a Bullt In 1912, the new school was brother lumping for joy as the ba.8eball field. Upon challeng­ bullt very similar to Cherry Novelty school blazed away. He Ing the Cherry Valley boy. to a Valley scbool number four. It was certain that this would be game, they were told: "You contained a basement and two the end of his school days. His guys can't play ball. You've upper stories, two rooms to dream was short-lived, been playing on that h1lJslde SO each level. One room held three however, as the children were long you've all got one leg shor­ grades of high school, but since simply transferred to Cherry ter than the other!" Despite lt was not an accredited school, VaUey School. By the following their handicap Novelty won. the students were obliged to term a new two-room school An addition was built onto the finish their final year of high had been bullt on the Dresent school In 1905, making two school M either Duvall or Mon­ Seattle Water Department site, rooms. The addition was dub­ roe. about a mile north of Novelty. bed the "blg room" whUe the This school caught fire and School number three had original bulldlng was called the burned down In 1922. Mrs. Mil­ three classes In each room, with "little room." Two of the dred Pickering recalled that as Ule seventh and eighth grades earUest teachers at this school the students were being remaining at Cherry Valley. were Mr. and Mrs. Colgate. Mr. evacuated, Uttle Chandler Pick­ Mrs. Joyce Funk of Duvall Colgate was a brother to the ering left his lunch on the school laught two terms at this scbool founder of the present Colgate­ steps, apparenUy thinking the in 1939 and 1940. Shortly after­ Palmolive Company. steps would not burn. Upon wards, the school was closed, When the enrollment reached realizing his lunch went up In about 1942. The woodshed about 60 pupils, it was decided smoke, he became very heart­ located just north of the water that a new school should be broken. His lunch had contained works was originally the play­ bullt. Due to the small and In- a very scarce Item In those shed for this school. (Phot os next p age)

33 THE SECOND Novelty School. built about 1912. was located on top of the hili near the Murle Boshaw home.

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THE SECOND Novelty School burning In 1922.

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derives from the Vincent men who worked there referred was a log building owned by Vincent family, who settled in the area to it CiS '~Vincent's Mill." The Robert Solberg, located on the in the 1870's, along with the name stuck and was Later shor­ present H. R. Barker place. All tened to Vincent when the com­ that was needed to get the By Allen MJlIer Sikes, Adairs and others who homesteaded and cleared the munity began to grow. building in order were: three Continuing our subject of the land. Most of these early sett­ In 1910, E. A. Stuart pur­ panes of window glass, a $4 past few weeks on schools, let's lers were veterans, Iresh out 01 chased the Vin.cent place and stove, some bricks and mortar, take a look this week at the the great Civil War. They were began what became the present and two rolls of buildng paper. community of Vincent, located glvim land grants in the raw Carnation Research Farm. Al­ Andrew HJertoos, the first • bout a mile and a hall west of new West. ter selling out, the Vincents school director, supplied a can Carnation Farms. One version has it that the moved from Ihe VaUeY,leavinll of black paint for the black­ It is not known e""cUy when Vincenl family operated a rnlll behind them a name which con­ board, which cost the school 7S the area became known as while they were logging and tinues to this day. cents. "Vincent," but the name clearing their land, and the The Cirst school in Vincent (Continued)

34 A new school was built, how­ their recess hunting for the ever, just north of the original school's only ball when some­ school in 1905 at a cost of $700. one would hit a homer out into Some of the early teachers at the blackberry bushes across this school were: Grace Keller, the rood. Anna Breum, Elsie Durr I By 1920, teacher's wages had DaVida Hilson and Martha increased to $140 a month, Lundquist. Miss Lundquist took which included $S a month for sick during the flu epidemic of janitorial work. ThIs included 1918 and was replaced by Vin­ everything from starting the cent's first male teacher, Sid­ fire in the wood stove each ney Smith, at the tune of $100 morning to cleaning the school­ per month. house and fil1lng the kerosene In 1914, a 2()'foot by 4()'foot lamps. A MI'lI. Hamilton was the first playshed was built north of the A list of the subjects taught in teacher, .tartine in April 01 school at a cost of $32 and, shor­ 1911 shows the following: arith­ 1895. Her wages were $2Q p.,r tiy afterwards, a water system metic, reading, geology, lan­ month,1ater raised to ~ by An­ was installed in the school, guage, grammar I writing, drew Solberg, the school complete with toilets and drink­ drawing, general exercise, board's first clerk. ing fountain. spelling, history, hygiene, agri­ The school board's minutes In 1919, a 24-foot by 24-foot culture and civics. from 1895 to 1913 were recorded addition was built onto the one­ One item of special interest in a ledger now belonging to room school which contained recorded in the school direc­ Harold Solberg. lour rooms. This addition was tor's log in 1911 shows the school ThIs record shows a steady used as a residence by Beatrice receiving six cords of stove increase in teacher's wages Martin, a widowed teacher who wood, delivered, for $3.50 per over the years; it also shows a had three children. cord! surprising turnover in the Some of the present residents In Aprll 1920, the seventh and teaching staff. Following Mrs. of Vincent who attended this eighth grades were moved to Hamilton were: Alta Langdon, school are: Kenneth Sikes, who Tolt Grammar School and a ~t $25 per month; Addie started in 1915; and Gunnar school bus was provided to Scoonover, at $30; Bertha John­ Johnson, who started in 1918. transport them. ThIs transpor­ son, at $40; and after several Others were: Gunnar's wife, tation was provided by Elbert others there arrived a Miss Susie VanderMeer Johnson; Gould of Carnation, who built a Naomi Boyker in September, Helen VanderMeer Sinnema; bus onto a truck frame which 1904. Harold Solberg; and WilJjam could haul up to 35 pupils. In August, 1898, a special levy Quaale. In 19-12, the Vincent School of 1 mill was assessed on all Gunnar recalled one of the was closed and all of its stu­ touable pruperty in the district, former teachers, Mrs. Rose dents transferred to Carnation which probably accounts for Rogers, standing next to the old or Duvall. The last teacher was some of the rise in salary. wood stove in the classroom, Miss Ramsey, who went to There is evidence in the re­ raising her long skirt to warm Duvall to teach after leaving cords that another school was her backside in the chill of win­ Vincent. built in 1099, loc~ted near the ter. Helen Sinnema recalled the On June 10, 1943, the Vincent WilJjaffi Quaale residence, but baseball field on the hillside and Community Club was fonned this hasn't been verified. how the children spent most of and the old school was pur­ chased for their clubhouse. Over the years the old building has been remodeled, but still FIRST VINCENT retains much of its original ap­ SCHOOL - Miss pearance. The club members have done a beauWuI job of Bertha Johnson, preserving the building's teacher; Fred and original charm, yet have con­ Olaf Quaale; Julia, verted It to a meeting place Lucy, and Edwin suitable to their needs. 11 is still Stamp; Percy Adams instanUy recognizable for what it was and is probably the and Leila Leyde; oldest, if not the only, one-room Pinkerton was schoolhouse remaining in the visiting. Snoqualmie Valley. (More photos next 2 pages)

35 MISS MARGARITE MARBLE'S class, Dec 14, 1923, From a photograph taken by Darius Kinsey, the highly reknowned logging photographer, Pho'o councoy of Willi om Quoolc w....,

MISS BEATRICE MARTIN'S class at Vincent, about 1921. Left to right: Wilbur Huskins, Frank Ford, Rudolph Johnson, John Johnson, Beryle Adair, Gertrude Carlson, Paalama Solberg, Martin (teacher's son), Faulkey Johnson, Kenneth Olsen, Margaret Quaale, Alia Solberg, Rorence Vanderpol, Elizabeth Martin (teacher's daughter), Lily Johnson, Emma Quaale, Gunnar Johnson, Roy Solberg and Earl Roth. Photo courtesy of William Qua.le June 4, 1981 :::::::::::;::::::::=::::::::::::::;:;:::::::::::::::::;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;:::;:::::;::.::::::::::::::;:;:::;:::::::::::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::;:;: Stillwater

ByADeaMIDer One of the VaDey's small communities that has managed to survive fairly weD intact aD of these years Is the community of SUllwater, located along State HIghway 203, about 6 mil.. BOUth of Duvall and 3 r miles north of CarnaUon. Some of the first setUers to r- arrive in the SUllwater area r , .... were the J . A. Strattons, A. J. -". Anderson, A. O. Nelsons and .. Joseph Essency. The smaD creek that crosses under the blghway just north of the store was named for thls man and Is known as Essency Creek on some old maps. The first known industry in the SUllwaler area was a log­ ging camp run by MaughlJn Brothers, a SnohomJsh.based shingle company which started in 1897. ThIs firm started log­ ging in the SUllwater area as early as 1900, cutting down huge cedar trees and floating them to their mIUs in Snohomish via the Snoqualmie River. At Snohl)o CHERRY VA LLEY Timber Company loggers hotel in 1918 wa s located alongside mlsh, they operated two mIUs : the highway just north of the present store . The building was later convert ed into a one was known as the Cyclone home by Ray Essency and was rented by Aibert and May Herman. mIU and the other was the Knapp m1U, which produced about 80 million shingles a year. the present highway, crossing a operator to control the dozen or the lower four grad.. . The logging business reaDy long tresUe where the Gene more trains that used the triple Some of the teachers at thls got under way about 1906, with Buse home now stands, and crossing dally. school were EDen Peterson, the arrival of the Stillwater then up the hlUslde across from The present SUllwater Store, Amelia Herman, Paalama Sol­ Logging Company, a subsidiary the store. The old grade can sUll now owned by Gene and Marge berg and Margaret Quacken­ of the Cherry VaDey Logging be plainly seen where it crossed Buse was buDt about 1910 by bush. MIldred Pickering, who and RaIlway Company, which the road about hallway up StiD· Mr. 'Butikofer and was later now resides in Novelty, started operated another logging rail­ water RID Road. owned by Ted and Frances her teaching career here in road in Cherry VaDey, north of From there, the tracks bran­ Bowna. It has been in contin- 1928, teaching the upper four present day DuvaD. The Still­ ched out aD over the top of the uous operaUon these many grades for four years. water Company consisted of a hiU, going back into Lake Joy years selling groceries meats Mrs. Pickering recaDed that group of men who had logged and eventuaDy reaching as far household Items, fish1n8 tackl~ the school's water was obtained previously in SUllwater, Minn., north as Camp ElweD, Gordon and gasoline. from a .pring at the bottom of and were sUll referring to them­ Markworth Experimental For­ The Stillwater School was the hill. She recal1ed the chUd­ aelve. a. the "Stillwater est and Drwlken Charlle Lake. probably started about 1910 ren washing their hands in the Gang." In 1910, Mr. H. ButikC)o The Great Northern RaUroad also. It was originally known as basin whUe she rinsed their fer platted out a town on the arrived in Stillwater in 1910 and the Terguson School District soapy hands with a dipper from present StiDwater site and the Mllwaukee a year later. and was located on the hill the water buckel. ThIs same named \he town in nonor of the Both sets of tracks ran through about a quarter mile north of dipper served a. the school's men who worked in the nearby the field in back of the store. the store. The original road ran drinking cup, too. With the logging camp. Just south of Fay Road both along the hlUside above the questionable quality of the The logging railroad n­ tracks .crossed the logging com­ present highway and ran in 'pring water and the fact that tended from a point on the river pany tracks and each other's front of the schoolhouse. .' everyone drank out of the same at the east end of the state tracks, forming a triangle in the The school was originaDy a dipper, "It's a wonder we all hunting reserve (part of the log cenler of the three ral1roads. one-room affair, but somelime survived," said Mrs. Pickering. dump sUO stands on the river­ The Mllwaukee erected a small in the 1921)'., the playshed was bank), then along and across depot at the spot, manned by an converted into a classroom for (Continued)

38 Her teaching salary at this Urne was $100 per month, plus $15 for Janitorial services, which included cleaning the schooiroom each evening and arriving early in the morning to start the fire in the old wood stove. The building contained 8 basement where the firewood was stored. Her husband, Vern, chopped the wood and some of the oider boys would bring arm­ loads of it up from Urne to Urne. Some of Mrs. Pickering's stu­ dents include Mrs. Mabel (Riley) Mackey and Mrs. Elva (Koolstra) Fay of Carnation. Both of these women recalled Mrs. Pickering as a fine teacher who would often Join the child­ ren in their games during re­ cess. Mrs. Mackey recalled her sledding down the snow­ covered hillside with tbe students on a long ladder. Mrs. STILLWATER SCHOOL class - 1927. Pictured are Art Herman, Helvi Salo, Walter Fay recalled one occasion when Tonge, Myrtle Mallorey, Carl Baker, Elva KOOistra, Woodrow Tonge, Thelma An­ she let the c\as8 out early to en­ drea, Mallorey, Allen Fetts, Mary Martin, Myra Godwin (teacher). Arlene Joy the ampie snowfall which Ma~orie had begun to mell rapidly with Elter, Stubby Salo, Hubert Fay and Ruby Holton. a sudden warming trend. Mrs. Fay also recalled the school baseball diamond, also located on the steep blIlside. When you hit a homer you would run downhill to first, uphill to second, uphill to third, and then downhill to borne. The eighth grade students were required to pass a state eu.minatlon before they could enter high school at either Toll or Duvall. In the fall of 1930, the sixth, seventh and eighth grades were moved to Toll and the school was closed com­ pletely about 1935.

STILLWATER SCHOOL - 1928 - fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Back row (left to right) : Edwin De Boer, Mary Martin , Arthur Herman, Elva KOOistra, Walter Tonge, Myrtle Mallory, Chester Riley, Mildred Pickering (teacher) . Center (left to right) : Thelma Andrea, Gladys De Boer, Mabel Riley, Lucille Andrea, Arlene Etter (?), Marjorie Mailoroy, Robeil Oderkirk, Norma Riley, Barbara Oderklrk. Bottom row: Ray Noble, unknown, Hubert Fay, unknown , unknown, Manuel Andrea, Frank Andrea and Orvail ______

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Other Schools In The Valley

By AIleD Miller

PLEASANT HILL SCHOOL - 1915-16. First row: Charles Swltzler, Emily Brooks, Evalyn Cunningham, Bessie Moser, Caryl Cunningham, Hector Ogilvie, Howard Moser, Oscar Nelson, Richard Langlois, Claude Cunningham. Second row: Edith Ogilvie, Alta Long, Ida Templeton, Ralph Brooks, Francis Cunningham, Benny Tem­ pleton, Norman Trezise, Nell Swltzler, Frank Williams. Third row: Elsie Moser, Ger­ tude Carmichael (teacher), Josephine McKinnon, Zaldee Ogilvie, Elnora Moser, Lena Williams, John Matthews (principal), Perry LangloIs and Orville Switzer. In tbI8 flna1 article In the aero - 01. Novelty District attended Valley Scbool, and was a reIa· were tbree boys and one girl lea on Lower Valley achools, I Tolt Union HIgh School In Car- live ID the late mulli-mlll1ooa1re enrolled. In 1924 the enrollment wIl1 give a brief bIalDry 01. the nalion. J. Paul Getty, Mn. Elluon re- bad reached 30 students. TIle remaining achool buUdlnga that Mn. Ellason attended achool called that MIas Getty belped school wu cloaed sometime In once operated In the Valley. as a child In another of the Val· ber and ber a1ater ID flnlah the tbe depreaalon years of the One 01. theae acbools was ley's small acboola, the Albin seventb and elgbtb grades In ear11111301. located at Pleasant HW, located Scbool DlatrIct, on upper Pat- one year In the 111~ 11 acbool The Mount Forest Scbool re­ about balfway between Carna· tenon Creek. TbIa school was a term. She also recalled that placed an earlier log cabin lion and Fall City_The original one-room buUdlng located nor. tbere were slJ: pupu. enrolled school that was located about a Pleasant HIll School was a lb.est of Fall City along the that year and tbey all bad peT'­ quarter roUe above the Stack· small, OIIIH'OOIII building that Redmond-Fall City HIghway. feet attendance recorda for that pole Road, nearer the HIgh was later converted Into a SIm- TbIa achool beld the record for a term. Bridge. Paul McClellan 01. Sn~ day Scbool The buIldlng, as a time as the smallest one-room Another on&-tOOm acbool was homIah was a student In botb 01. school, was replaced by a tw~ acboolln the state, and was at· built circa If101 about balfway u.e 1Choola,ItartIIIg III the Joe room schoolhouse In 1105. The factlonately called "the between tbe foot 01. RIng HIll cabin ""\dh~ about 1105 and acbool was located alongalde crackerboI," Mrs, Eliason and HIgh Bridge, about four moving ID new buIldlng the present highway, about one- recalled the teacher sending a mlles nortbweat of Duvall TbIa about If101, Paul recalled a half mile soutb of wbere Griffin couple 01. children out for water. building was located on tbe hound dog that used to follow Creek crosses under the CaT'- They would hIlte about a qll8l' knoll 01. tbe bill above the him to school and Ileep 00 tile naUon-Fall City HIghway, on ter 01. a mUe ID a .prlng and present hlgbway about balfway Door nat ID the old wood stove property now occupied by an bring It back In a bucket, from between the Walt DeJong and In the middle 01. tbe roam. TIle antique store. Mn, Gertrude which everyone would drink Oliver Nelson farms, and was dog WOIIld Itart bowling III bIa EUaaon, who sUll lives In the wltb a dlpper, known as MOWIt Forest Scbool aleep and the teacher would re­ Pleasant HIll area, taught the One teacher tauaht all elabt Two women wbo live locally quest tbat the dog be l'IIIIIOYed four primary grades In tbI8 grades at the Pa!tenon Creek In tbe area who were once to avoid dl.aturbaDce to the acbool beginning Feb. I, 1915. acbool, and one year the claaa teachers In tbI8 acbool are Mn. clau. McClellan recalled tba Working as MIas Gertrude went througb sii teacben Margaret McCormIck 01. Duvall foUcnrIni namea 01. teachers Carmlcbael then, ber aalary during the nlne-montb term. and Mn. Edltb Fay 01. Carna· who taught at the old Joe cabin was ~ per montb, which In- One woman teacher caught ty. Uon. Otber names of teachers acbool: Mn. Walta, Mrs. NOT'­ cluded':; for janilDrialwork. phald, and a abort time later tbe bere are: MIas NIWII&JI, MIas ton, Mlaa MIller, Mrs. Sbanaban The school bad two teachers, sberUf arrived ID arrest the new Storm, 1118, Lois MaIwell, 1922, and Maude DownIng. each teaching four grades In male teacher, and MIas Riese, 1924. one 01. the two rooms. The bI&I>- One 01. the teachers at tbla Wesley Smltb, who lives near school·age student. from school was MIas Jennie Getty, the HIgh Bridge, started acbool ( Continued) Pleaaant HW, Vincent and some who later taught at Cberry bere In lilt, at which time tbere

40 After the .... Mount Forat ICbooI ... built, the loc cabin building ... UNcI by the local 80)' Scouts and ... aIIo UNcI by a-ae S*ackpole for IIAIrIns and drying fosglove Ie..,., "bleb "ere UNcI for making med1dne. A .jIrOIIII 01 bwIten caucbl tbe buIIdIn8 011 fin about 1m and burned It cIcnm; AnoUIer 01 the ICbooIa 10 the area "e mI8bt oienUOIl jut brleO, ... a _GOlD ICbooIIo CbeIT)I Gardena, built about lUI and located at the baIrpln curve on Mountalo Vie" Rllac1. '!be fInt teacher bare ... a MIaa KeIIJ and tbere "ere 17 cb1Idren the fInt year. Tbere "" aIIo a small 8CbooI located about 2~ m1Iea up 5touel Creek about 1"~. Wilbur Platt 01 CamaUon bu 801IIII old dealt framea from tbIa ICbool Tbere "u aIIo a ICbooI al one Ume near Loop Lake, located above GrIftln Creek, to aetVe the chlIdren of a loglog MOUNT FOREST SCHOOL In the early 1930s. Pictured camp 10 thet area. are, first row - left to right: Donald Mortenson, Fred Bev­ Allbougb ICbooI bIaIIni, lm­ ensee, Bobby Bisnett. Second row: Verle Smith, Snlfred proved roada and modern leachlnE metboda have Holstrtem, Emma Bevensee, Alpha White. Third row (to eIlmInated the ~ for IICbooIa left): Clifford Love. Top row: Olaf AlIse, Magnar Hol­ In every commWlily, tbe atI>­ strlem, Mrs. Elliott and Esther Arp. dents "ho attended tbeIe Uttle 1nIUtuUona 0I1eaming are l11li plentiful, and IbeIr memories reveal an economical, clooely- 1mIt, edllCAUonal illeslyle thet bu paued on, never to return apia.

MOUNT FOREST SCHOOL in early 1930s. First row, left to right: Trlyntje Mulder, Emma Bevensee, Mrs. Moore, Clifford Love. Second row: Nick Rhoda, Jacob Mulder, David Johnson, Verle Smith, Jacky Armstrong. Third row: Abel Mulder, Mary Rhoda, Elsie Mulder and Fred Bevensee.

41 one acre of ground to Rev. Me­ the logging company around Nemee for a cemetery site and 1911-12 and It burned down In the building of a church. 1915. Arthur Hlx arrived in Cherry Reverend McNemee bought Valley in 1905 and built a gen­ the lumber for the church on era! store on the hillside below credit in Seattle and then paid the church. He had a landing on $7S to have it shipped up the the river where groceries and Snoqualmie River, only to find supplles for the store could be that the people were expecting received by riverboat. him to pay them wages to build About thls same Urne, KIng the church. He took a contract County erected a wooden draw­ to grade a half-mile of county bridge across the river Just road and made $:i a day, with below the store. This bridge which he paid off the carpen­ rotated on a central pier In the ters. The follOwing year, he middle of the river to allow Cherry Valley worked 21> months at the boats passage beyond the bridge. was later moved to the present Meadowbrook Hop Ranch to This turnlng action gave It the pay the lumber bill. Soon alter­ By AlIeD Miller Clarence Zylstra home, then for name Hswingbridge." Boats a short Urne at the former Mary wards, Rev. McNemee left the coming upstream would whisUe The name "Cherry Valley" Coy home (then called the Wil­ Cherry Valley clrcult MDd didn't for the bridge at Rocky Point, geographically encompasses a son Place), and lasUy, inside return to It until 1893. Upon his about 4 miles downstream as section of Ilat land extending the present Leo Dougherty return, he found the church the river goes. The bridge from the present town of home. building still unfinished and, would then be opened by one of Duvall, north to the Snohomish The first real publlc building with the help of the Ladles' Ald, the Dougherty hoys or the Counly line, and extending east was the schoolhouse, built in the building was completed and Leaks, who lived on the present and wesl to the foothills on 1879 of spilt cedar boards and dedicated June 24, 1894, as the Roney farm. Sometimes Mrs. either side. The name has also shakes, and located across the Frances E. Willard Methodist Leak herself could be seen out been used over the years as the river from the present Wayne Church. The building was lo­ on the bridge, turning the huge corporate tlUe of a logging com­ Miller home. This building was cated on the hillside above Roy capslan lever until the huge pany, two shingle mills, a river­ discussed a few weeks ago at Gustafson's plant to the north of bridge, balancing on Its center boat, a townsite company, a the beginning of the series on the bend in the present road pier, ·swung around parallel school district, a stock farm and Lower Valley schools. going up to the school. with the river channel. a village. The next building was a The liext enterprise to reach By 1910, there were enough The flrst setUers arrived in saloon,located on the riverbank the Valley was the logging oper­ the area in the mid-1870s. Most about where the old Paul Coy ation of Millet and McKay, in farmers In the area that a of these settlers were veterans house stood. This saloon was 1890. They built the area's flrst Grange was organized, and a of th.: Civil War who had been operated by a Mr. Bradberry logging railroad and brought conununlty hall was built by the given land grants in an effort to and was owned by James the flrst donkey engines Into the Grange members about 300 feet open up the vasUy WlS.>tt1ed O'Leary, who owned land com­ Valley. This operation eventu­ below the bridge. West. prising the old Coy Brothers ally became the Cherry Valley This completed the village of The flrst publlc building in the and Dougherty fanns, and built Logging Company and later, a Cherry Valley, a cazy rural vil­ Valley was a post offlce, which the Dougherty home. part of Weyerhaeuser TImber lage nesUed on the hillside was located in the home of Mr. In 1885, the first preacher Company. above the wooden swing bridge, Lucius Day, who lived on the arrived in the Valley and held In 1892, another saloon was with Its maze of crisscrOSSing east bank of the river, across sermons in the split cedar built In Cherry Valley alongside Urnbers and heavy lron rods. from the William Roetclsoender schoolhouse. This man was the the logging company tracks, But soon something would hal>' farm. A box on the wall in the Rev. Andrew J. McNemee and north of and across the river pen to change all of thls. There kitchen served as the post of­ be traveled his clrcult on foot, from the Capt. Charley Larsen was talk of a railroad cOming fice. When the locaUon was taldng three weeks to make the home on the Snoqualmie River into the Valley, and there were granted by the Postal Depart­ clrcult, often following the ani­ Road. This saloon and hotel nunors about a new town being ment, the big question was: mal trails a!ong the river, as combination was known as the planned. Boom Urnes were com­ "What shall we call the place?" there were no roads or bridges Valley House and was owned by ing to Cherry Valley, and In the Mr. Day reportedly looked out in the Valley at that Urne. Robert "Bob" Crossman. It was next few weeks we will take a of his window at his two bloom­ A growing number of Valley­ later owned by James L. Wal­ look at how the town of Duvall ing cherry trees and sald, ites began to take a dim view of lace, Hugo Steffen and James was developed and look at some "Let's call It Cherry Valley." Bradberry's saloon business, Clark, who each operated It for of the businesses that made up And that was how Cherry Valley so, in order stop any argu­ a short Urne. James Gowen early Duvall. got its name. The post office ments, James O'Leary donated operated it In conjunction with (Photos next p a ge )

42 CHERRY VALLEY in 1908. Pictured are the Methodist Church, the parson­ age, Hix's store, Cherry Valley School and the swing bridge.

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH in Cherry Valley circa 1909.

AUTHUR HIX'S store in Cherry Valley in 1909. Pictured are Robert Perkins, Louis Getty, Pauline Hix, Mary Hix, Arthur Hix and Kenneth Hix.

43 By Allen MIller cuatody oi SectIon 13, TownahIp Last week we gave a brtef hls­ 211 North. Range e Eat, KIng tory oi CherTy Valley, the vil­ County, WubIngtoo Territory, GREAT NORTHERN Railroad moving Methodist Church lage that became Duvall. In the wbIcb would become the loca­ from Cherry Valley to new town of Duvall in the spring spring of 1910, the Great North­ UOII otDavall. of 1910. ern Rallroad'. grading crew. On OCt. 15, 1875, Francls M. arrived In the Valley, building a DuvaI1 was given full and clear branch Une from Monroe to Utle to a portion of Section 13 proud of these anlmala and Toll 1be1r grade required a cut estending frotO preaent 3ave them much care and at­ through the hillside occupied by Stephens Street, north to tention. the village. AS part of their CIerry Valley Road, and from One of the skld roads ran rlght«-way agreement, they wllat Is !mown as the Pole UJIe from on top of the hill behind agreed to move H!l<'s store and Road, west to the SnoqualmJe town, down the present school the church to lots where the new RIver, under homestead claim grollllds, turning at Trulson'. town of "Duvall" was being signed by PresIdent U. S. Grant. front yard, then down through platted. H!l<'. store Is now the ThIs tract ccmpriled about 180 WaInscoU's property to the bulJdIng occupied by Duvall acres. present Main Street, near the Motor Parts and the church was Earlier, however, Duvall bad ea..b and Carry Lwnber ware­ moved to the site of the present mortgaged thls property to a house. Another road ran Melhodbt Church and later Mr. T. F. McElroy for _ and diagonally from the airport, remodeled and expanded Into down at an angle across the later, unable to pay the note, the present town to an IntersecUon the present building. mortgage was foreclosed and Several months later, the Mil­ with the other skid road. From part of the land sold for laxeol to there they ran straight down to waukee Road arrived In Cherry James McNaught In April, 1879, Valley, building Its branch from and some of it to Schwabacher the river, where the logs were Cedar Falls to Everett. Mil­ roUed down the bank Into a waukee required the land occu­ Brothers In 1880 for $2.62 per boom on the river. pied by the community hall and acre. The land was nen pur­ moved It to the south end of chased by Danlel O'Leary James' skill at building skld Main Street, now occupied by (brother to James O'Leary, roads was the best, and many Duvall Boob. 1be only build­ menUoned In last week's arU­ old-timers will remember hur­ cle) 1882 for $500 and sold the Ings left at the Cherry Valley In LAST KNOWN portrait of rying to and from schOOl along following year to Port Blakely the path that then ran past the site were the parsonage house James Duvall. and a small lean-to attached to MIll Company, along with some old Jones Hardware powder HIJ:'s .tore. 1be GN built the more of SecUon 13, totaling 375 house and up the present Wain­ present paraonage, and It Is as­ acres. TIIIrd Avenue and BrueU Road. scott driveway, occaslonaUy tumed the bulJdlnga left at In Januarj; 1", Port Blake­ An ox hovel and blacbmlth tripping over the old cross skids Cherry Valley were either ly 80ld the· land to Francla' shop stood about where the re­ placed there years before by wrecked by the grading crew or brother, Jamea Duvall, who hail cently moved Landers boule Jim Duvall. In fact, the liberal :om down and salvaged by prevlOUIly run a logging oper­ I\0'Il' sits. Hen the paUent oxen c""ting of grease preolerved ",meone In the area. aUon In Everett with a couple of were Ihod, fed and houaed. those skids so well that a few partners, 80 be Imnwtlately set Most oi these anlmalI were years ago there were some I Several years prior to all of to work logging oil the bIllsIde. bIacI< bulla oi the Durham sUcking through the gravel on his, however, there was a quiet Jamea estab1labed a logging breed, welgblng arclund 1,800 Cherry Street between Main /lUle going on next door for camp at the IOUtbeastcomer oi pounds. Mr. Duvall was vfir)' and First.

44 The Ton Beglna A Walk Down MaID Street

By Allen Mmer and associates and Miss Muzall, the secretary, busy inside. nus .. eek, let'. step back in On the main floor was a spa· time about 65 or 70 years and cious lobby and dining room. take a ..alk down Duvall's Main The saioon, located on the south Street and see the many busi. side of the building, had a huge nesses that made up the new bar that was kept busy Wltil town in the heart of Cherry prohibition, then near beer and Valley. soda pop were sold with less At the north end of town on than enthusiastic response. The the east side of the street was second floor contained a bai· the Duvall Pharmacy, opened cony on the rear of the building Iri June 1912 by Emil Clausen. that gave a good view of the BWed .. the "Home of the Big Snoqualmie River and the Val. iey beyond. The second floor Soda Fountain," it was a fc> THE FOREST INN o n Duvall's main street about 1912. vorite place to stop and have a also contained 18 rooms, all Coca-Cola or 'Hires Root Beer comfortably furnished and each The east end of the present bridge now marks the site . after the movie at the Duvall equipped with electric light and Theatre. The building was II)­ running water. School teachers cated about where the liquor logging superintendents: store now stands and it also railroad officials and hWlting served as the office of Wood· and fishing parties were some mark the Tailor, who had a shop of the usual guests who occu. and salesroom in a portion of pied those rooms. the drug store for a time. The The upper floor contained pharmacy became a branch of three apartments, two were oc­ Camp-RUey Drug Company of cupied by the owners and their Monroe In January 1915, and families, the third was rented to was nicknamed "the twig," Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Moody, which probably reflected that it who owned the dry good store. didn't generate enough bu.siness Th~ Forest Inn maintained a to deserve the title of branch. high standard of excellence for George Erickson bought it from its accommodations and persl)­ Camp-RUey In July 1916 and nalservice, but in 1916, with the operated it for several years. arrival of Prohibition, the first signs of its downfall was ap­ Just up the street, near the parent. Mr. Wallace sold out his present Day·N·Nite Market, partnership to Mr. Speaker that w.. J.B. Martel's grocery store year and turned to a life of far. and hotel building. This build· mingo Mr. Speaker continued to ing in later years became the rWl the hotel for several years Valley Restaurant, and was but in the early 192Os, improved tom down several years ago roads began to claim more and ..hen ClInt Hansen built his pre­ more of the inn's business. No sent store. longer did passing motorists THE LOBBY of the Forest In n. Shown are Mrs. Wallace. Adjacent to the Martel build· stop to spend the night at the Louis Speaker and J ames Wa ll ace (seated). ing .... John Allen's garage, Forest Inn on their way to Seat. and ..here the recently razed tle or Everett. It was now too auto repair shop stood was the conv~ni e nt to just drive on location of Dean's Hardware. through to their destination. Across the street, where the Finally, Mr. Speaker sold out present bridge begins, was the and the once elegant hotel be­ location of the beautiful, rustic came rwl down under a series Forest Inn. Built Wlder the part· of disinterested owners. In the nership of James L. Wallace year 1930, the sleeping town was and Louts Speaker, the inn was awakened by the fire alarm. opened for business JWle 22, "It' s the li'orest Inn!" was the 1912 and contained three stories cry, but with the fire fiKhw.g and basement. Part of the base­ equipment of the day, it was im. ment area was rented out to the possible to save the building. local Moose Lodge. Here also Now the bridge marks the site were the office. of the Townsite of Duvall's pride of almost 70 Company and the Cherry Valley years ago. ShIngle Mill, with Roy Comegys More , next week.

45 A Look At Old Duvall

By AlIell MIller side by side. Over the site of Continuing our walk up Main Whitfield's Insurance, Hunt's Street from where we left off Barber Shop, etc. was the last week, we paso the Forest Duvall Trading Company, a dry Inn and pause to look at the em­ goods store operated by Sher­ pty lots between the bridge and man J. Moody who al30 operat­ the Duva,U Tavern. UnW about ed a slmllar store in Monroe. 10 years ago, these lots were the The store front carried a sign site of a cluster of busbless advertl8ing a $10,000 stock of houses that were built a bout dry goods, clothing, boots and 1911. shoes. It used to be great fun for The northern-most building the local boys on Halloween to was Charles Rehm's Duvall paint out the dectmal8 on the Meat Market, whlch featured dressed chickens at 18 cents a sign and make it read $1 mil­ ARTHUR HIX'S General Store and R. H . Almer' s black· pound, fresh roasts, steaks, lion. AlongsIde Moody's was Lon smith shop in Duvall in 1910. The store is now Duvall chops, homemade sausage and Motor Parts. Standing by the wagon are E. F. Hanisch of course, fWl on Fridays. Ad­ Brown's Confectlonery and pool Jacent to the butcher shop, in hall. Lon sold candy, cigars, and Chris Unger. two early pioneers. what used to be Fern Colelt's frult, newspapers, magazines, Valley Tavern, was a Millinery recorda, Victrola's, musical In­ Shop operated by the Fleming struments and sporting goods. sl8ters. In May 1913, this build­ In March 1913, he installed a ing was taken over by MI8s soda fountain and started sell­ Vema Wurzer and became a ing h.ls own brand of Ice cream, musIc store for many years. called WhIte LIly. The store was Adjacent to the music store was a popular spot, especlally after a barber shop and pool hall, showtlme at the theater. In the opened in February 1913 by early 1920s, Lon sold out to the A. F . Anderson. He later sold Gibbons brothers, who convert­ out to a C.E. Mercereau who ed the confectionery into a r .... continued the business for a taurant and continued running number of years. the pool hall. On the present site of the 76 On the site of Duvall'. present Union staUon was a building hardware store was abo the site that was originally intended to of Duvall's original hardware MAIN STREET· 1910. Pictured. from le h . are A. P . be a Moose Hall. The frame­ store. Two adjacent buildings Manion Hardware , Manion Furniture annex, Brown's work was put up by the enthu­ served the enterprl8e of Mr. A. Confectinery and Moody's Dry Goods. These buildings slasUc Moose Lodge in August P. Manion, on the northwest stood where the plaza is now. 1914, but evldenUy funds ran comer of Main and Cherry. On short and the building stood un­ the right was the furniture an· finishl!d for several years. The nex and beside It a tw()ostory place was a favorite play site building served as the hard­ for the local children, until ware store, which carried George Anderson Sr. saw its everything from farm possIbillUes as an automobile machlnery to logging supplies, repair shop and bought the pr()o such as peaveys, crosscut saws perty from the Lodge. The and falling axes. Also sold building was eventually sold to were fireanns and blasting EnunlIt MinagUa and became powder. " We have tt!" was the Duvall Motors garage unW Manion's slogan, and he usually it burned down about 1977. did. The upper story of the hard­ Between the gas stallon and ware building was known as WhIUield's Realty was a large Manion's Hall and was used by frame building known as the the Oddfellows and Rebekah AthieUc Pavilion. Erected in Lodge for several years. 1913, It was the scene of many In the early 192Qs, the hard­ dances and basketball games ware business was sold to Gil· over the years. bert M. Jones, who continued the business and abo operated On the present Duvall Hard­ DUVALL MEAT Ma rket in the 1920s. The man behind ware and Plaza site was the post office out of h.ls store another cluster of four buildings when he was made postmaster. the counter is Bert Gainer: the customer is unide ntifie d . ( Continued)

46 At a little put midnight on the local Valleyites watched the troop. In his new quarters, Mr. store, which was built In Cherry night of Nov. 5, 1925, a fire latest sUent films starring Mary Smith began dOing auto repair Valley In 1900 and moved to the broke out on the second Ooor of Pickford, Fatty Arbuckle and work, and opened the first new townsite of Duvall In 1910. the hardware building and Charlie Chaplin, to name a few. Chevrolet agency In the Valley. The building was built by Ar­ quickly 'pread to all four build­ Just up the 'treet, where the The present Trading Post thur Hix and served as a Ing,. The heat was '0 Intense TBT Commercial building now building W83 built In early 1911 general store continuously for that It shattered windows In the stands, was the Blacksmith 83 the Duvall Tailoring Com­ over 70 years. Even In 1912 it stores across the ,treet and the Shop, built by R. H. Aimer In pany, owned by F. W. Hoffman, was billed 83 "The Pioneer firemen had a few close calli 1910. L. D. Smith bought the a tailor by trade. He saw a great Store" and was Ule main center dodging bullets when the am­ business In 1913 and he truly future demand for his talents in of trade for loggers, fanners, munition In the ,tore caught on typified the hero In H.W. Long­ the new little town, and ran a housewives and townspeople fire. In spite of a valiant effort, fellow', poem "The Village thriving business for some until its closure following the the enUre four building block Blacksmith." The sounds of his time. Mr. Hoffman would hike illness and death of Mr. Cliff was destroyed. Mr. Jones hammer and anvil rang out up out to the local logging camps, Hill In 1977. The store also promptly rebuilt, however, and and down Main Street 83 he taking orden and measure­ housed the post olllce until the the site has contained a hard­ worked the hot metal to fashion ments for some real classy present office W83 built about ware business ever since. The a horseshoe or repair a broken suits, and the customers would four yean ago and Mr. Hill's building later being purchased part of some fanner's imple­ drop by on Saturday evening for wife, Velma (daughter of Ar­ by Jack Frommer and then by ment. A perpetual group of a final fitting. In June 1913, Mr. thur Hix), served as Duvall's Dave Harder, who has rem<>­ local children would gather In Hoffman took cold on one uf his postmistress for 36 years. deled and expanded the original front of his shop and stare In business trips and soon con­ Following the loss by fire of building. awe and wonder 83 they stopped tracted pneumonia and died. A Duvall Motors garage, Bill Across the street, on the site to watch. Mr. Smith moved his couple months later J however I Mlnaglia opened his auto parts of Johnny Anden' wrecking business Into a foundry building another tailer named John store In the old building whlch yard, W83 the Duvall Theatre, at the south end of town In 1916 Turner arrived and took over still continues to serve the com­ built In 1913 by Lon Brown. On and the old shop W83 converted the shop for several yean. munity after over 75 years. Saturday nights, the sounds of Into a gymnasium by the Can­ The oldest building In town ls the plano could be heard 83 the yon Boys, a local boy scout the present Duvall Motor Parts (Next week, more aiong Main Streel.)

THE VALLEY RECORD July 30, 1981 :;:;:;:;:;:::;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::::;:::;:::;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::;:::;:;:::;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:;:::;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:::::::;:;:::;:;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::;:::;:::::::::::::::;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::;:::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::: the second newspaper in Spoon, was also the site of Du­ A Walk Up Main Street Duvall's history, published by vall's first restaurant, Olive Du­ Gil and Elizabeth Hackenbruch ville's Popular Cafe. Built In from 1953 until the mid-I960s. 1910, it advertised "Meals at all In Old Duvall Crossing over to the opposite hours, 25 cents and up. If The side of Main Street, we see the place was a popular spot for meals after town meetings and By Allen Mmer In the vacant lot just south of present Country Store building. the bank stood the home and of­ ThIs building has continued to social gatherings, and the upper As we continue our look at flce of DuvaU's first physician, serve as a grocery store since it Ooor contained a few rooms Duvall 83 It W83 In the good old Dr. H. W. Gehrken. He was one was built In 1910 by A. H. Boyd that were rented out to the local days, we head south on Main of the doctors In attandance at and Soru:, over 70 years ago. loggers and railroad men. On Street from Cherry Street and the tragic Wellington avalanche The store also contained the the evening of June I, 1913, a pass the Seattle-First National 0/1 Stevens Pass In 1910, when town's first post office and a 2()' fire broke out In the building Bank building. Founded June 6, two Great Northern trains were foot addition W83 built onto the and an alarm from the mill 1912 as the DuvaU State Bank by sw~t down a mountainside, rear of the building to accom­ whistle summoned a large Mr. C. Beadon Hall, the bank killing over 100 passengers and modate a bakery, which was group of volunteers who fought first opened business with an of­ crewmen. first opened Jan. 15, 1912. In the hard to save the building, but flce In the back room of the shoe The present Corduroy Rose 1930s, the bakery was converted losl. Mrs. Duville's establish­ ment takes its place In history atore unW the present building building was built In 1911 83 the Into cold storage lockers with was constructed around Duvall Shoe Store by Joseph lumber salvaged from the old 83 Duvall's first fire. Speaking of fires, where the November of the same year. Franke. He did shoe repairing Cherry Gardens School. In Oct<>­ In talklng to Cliff Peerman and sold aU types of shoes, in­ ber, 1912, Boyd constructed a city hall now stands was the a while back, he related how cluding the caulked boots used warehouse alongside the Mil­ original DuvaU Fire Depart­ when he was running a freight for logging. The building was waukee RBllroad on the river­ ment building. It contained a wagon aervlce In the early days later used as the office of the bank at the foot of Virginia hose cart and lots of buckets. before the bank was built, the late Judge Wright, an uncle to Street, from whlch he sold grain Behind the fire station stood the merchants would send their Martha Wright, the popular and alfalfa hay to local far­ town jail, a smal1 building con­ atore receipts to Monroe with Broadway stage star of the mers, which· he shipped In from structed of two by fours laid him to be deposited In their 1950s and '60s. Miss Wright Eastern Washington. The ware­ Oat, one on top of the other. bank. On some trips he carried lived In Duvall for many yean house was built with lumber Local people were proud that It many hundreds of doliars In before she went on to become a sawed at the Bacus sawmill and had never been overcrowded. cash and checks with him, but, star. was torn down only a few years In spite of nervous apprehen­ The building ls probably best ago by Charlie Greely. sion, he W83 never robbed or remembered as the printing of­ The site of one of DuvaU's lost any of the shipments. fice of the Csmavall Reporter, present restaurants, the Silver (Continaed)

47 The Duvall Books building was originally the Cllerry Val­ ley CommWlity Hall, built In 1909 by the Grange and moved from Cherry Valley to its present site by the Milwaukee Rallroad In 1910. Thls building was .the social center of the town and was the site of nwn­ erous dances, celebrations and political rallies, hosted by state senators and congressmen, who traveled from town to town campaigning for their offices. The building was also used briefly by a group from Tolt, representing the Duvall Theatre Company. They estab­ lished the fir.t motion pIcture theater In Duvall, opening July 21, 1913 and showing a movie each Monday and Thursday DUVALL'S main street In 1910. On the left side are Arthur Hix's General Store, Dr. night. The venture proved un­ successful aDd died out after a H . W . Gehrken's home and the Methodist Church. On the right are A. P. Manion's few months. Hardware, A. H . Boyd's store ~nd post office. and the Cherry Valley Community Hall. Just south of the Truck Slop Cafe was the site of Seager's Foundry. It was built In 1913 by F. E. Seager, a machinl.st from SnohOmish, who came to work In the Stephen&-Bird mill, which was beIng built north of town. The mill never got going, so Seager built the foundry and went Into business for himself. In 1916, L. D. Smith, Duvall's blacksmith, took over the foun­ dry building and also opened a Chevrolet agency managed by a Mr. Blaustein. Moving back to the east side 01 Main Street, the present Methodist Church was built In 1923, replacing the original building built In 1886 In Cherry Valley and moved to Duvall In 1910 by the Great Northern RaU­ road. South of the church was the office of the Duvall Citizen, Du­ vall's first newspaper, published Nov. 4, 1911 by Mabel Dufford and later by David Peacock. The printing press was operated by water power, OLIVE DUVILLE'S "Popular Cafe" about 1912. Standing piped Into the building from the In front are Mrs. Duville and Joe Dougherty. The building city's water lines. Ralph Taylor recalled that the Utile building burned down June 1. 1913. shook like an earthquake when­ ever the presses were rolling. That covers all of the busi­ The paper was bought up In 1917 nesses on Main Street. Next by E. T. Bascom of Monroe, week, we will look at the busi­ who gradually merged the Citi­ nesses that were located on the zen's columns Into the Monitor other streets as we wind down and discontinued the Duvall this series of articles on paper. Duvall's past.

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A Look At The Rest Of Early Duuall

By Allen Miller This week, let's take a walk alollg First Avenue in early day Duvall and look at the shops and buildings that were located along that street. Pausing at the Wallace Isom home, we look at the lot on the southeast corner of the intersection. Right there, in 1913, stood the Duvall Free MelhotJist Church. At the end of the block, on the ~o uth ea s t corner, stood a tw()o story building that served as a meat market. Operated by Jeff Couillard, the upstairs served as a town meeting and dance hall, known as Couillard's Hall. After the town was incorpor­ ated in 1913, Mr. Couillard ser­ THE TOWN OF DUVALL in 1911. First Avenue and Virginia Street are in the fore­ ved as Duvall's first town mar­ ground; Main Street is below. The bUilding to the right with a man standing on the shal. When Duvall was first plat­ back porch is Harty's Restaurant- The two buildings to the far left on First Avenue are ted, the county road from Tolt C harles Rehm's meat market and Anderson's barber shop. Note the three tents being was supposed to enter Duvall at uSt!d as temporary homes . the First Avenue level, instead of at Main Street as it does now. It was because of this that many of the eartiest merchants 1<>­ cated their stores on this street. First Avenue was, [or a time, as important as Main Street. On the southeast comer of First and Cherry stood the Skit­ rail home. Here was the scene of one of Duvall's early trage­ dies. Early on the morning of July 18, 1915, l~year-<)ld Goldie Skitrall and her two cousins awoke to find the upstairs of their house on fire. Mrs. Skitrall was helping the children out of a back window, when Goldie ran back for her stockings and san­ dals. The little girl could be seen at the upstairs window, but was too frightened to jump. An attempt was being made to res­ cue her, when suddenly the up­ per floor collapsed. Her body was found afterwards, lying just inside the kitchen. The present Bill Bright home, TOWN OF DUVALL circa 1918 as viewed from the old Stewart Street Bridge , whose on the northwest corner of First concrete piers still stand on each side of the river. In the foreground is the Milwaukee and Stewart, was a part of the depot wit h th e rear of Rehm's meat market and the front of Dean', Hardware store growing town's business dis­ above. To the left is th e huge Forest Inn , with Harty's Hotel on the hill above Main trict, serving as the telephone office, with Alice Hynes as chief Street operator and Jennie (Myers) George, who now lives in Ta­ coma, working as one of the operators. (Continued)

49 While we are covering this marks the site of the Duvall houses and a station agent's section of town, we might men­ Hotel. house, which sat on the river­ Half a block north was tion that the Catholic Church The hotel was owned by S. F. bank behind the Milwaukee another meat market, operated building, up on Stella Street, Gainer, who also did watch re­ depot. Some of the rosebushes by Charles Rehm until he open­ was built in 1914 on land pairing and taxidermist work. Agent Lucas planted in 1913 still ed a new building below on donated by Jack and Bernard Dr. Leon D. Noble, Duvall'. remain to mark the site, adding Main Street in December, 191!' "BWlS" Bird. The church was first dentist, also had an office some color to the riverbank The building wa. also used as finished on Feb. I, and services located in the building. each year. Charles Rehm's residence for a were held for the first time on Between the creamery and That completes the list of time and also became a bicycle Palm Sunday, April 5, by Fr. the hotel was located the Duvall stores and businesses that repair shop operated by the Kelly of Monroe. Livery. Owned by D. F. Barry made up early Duvall. Next Chipman brothers. There were also a few busi­ and later by Martin Six, local week a story about a locomotive Next to the meat market nesses located on streets below townspeople could stable their that came to Duvall from Wood­ stood a barber shop and pool town, west of Main Street. The mounts or rent a horse and inville over the highway. hall owned by A. F. Anderson; short section of street behind buggy for outings. he also moved to a new building the tennis court is all that re­ The Cherry Valley Townsite a block west on Main. mains of Riverside Avenue. Company operated a lumber On the northeast corner of West of this, extending from the yard on the north end of the First and Virginia, above Erv foot of Virginia to the foot of mobile home park and also 1<>­ Harder's Cash and Carry Lum­ Stephens was Railroad Avenue. cated below town were the Mil­ ber store, was located Harty's Between these two streets, fac­ waukee and Great Northern Restaurant, a tw(>.story · hotel ing Stella, was Lierly's Cream­ railroad depots, an assortment building that was later owned ery. Where Dave Harder'. old of railroad toolhouses, by John Joyce. lumber warehouse stands bungalows, coal and bunk

The Petersons used 10 tough The shay would run to the end three weeks of this, the lokey Swedes, 12Q feet of track, 60 of the l~foot track, then Ole was on locaUon, ready to go to railroad Ues and three weeks erew would take up the track work. Nowadays, you can jump Ume, and ran the lokey up over and Ues behind the lokey, bring into your car and drive to Wood­ Logging the hl1ls from Woodinville to the It around and lay it down ahead, inv1lle along the same old route, Valley, right on much of the preparing another run. Slowly covering the same distance in same route as the present high­ the locomoUve inched its way to IS minutes. Lokies way. Duvall, 12Q feet at a time. By AIIea Miller

wt week I promised you the story of the time when a loc(>. motive ran from Woodinville to Duvall, on the higl)way at that, ao here It Is. It was in the early teens and the Peterson Brothers had Just finished logging off the hillside above the old Teegarden farm, just across the Valley, south of Chapman's gravel pit. The op­ eration called for a more mod­ em method of getting the log. to the river, so a raJlroad system was planned. A locomotive was purcha.eii in the Woodinville area and, although the Great Northern and MIlwaukee raJlroads were running through the Valley at the Ume, the narrow gauge shay locomotive the Peterson boys had in mind could not be brought in over standard gauge CHERRY VALLEY Logging Company's locomotive number 2 (the two·spot) . This track. Also, if the lokey were gear· driven logging engin. was used during the company's eariiest years. It was in ­ brought into Duvall, there was volved in several wrecks and was stranded at old Camp 4 for several weeks once the difficult task of getting it across the river. when a trestle burned out. This picture was taken on the log dump about 1909. ( Continued)

50 Although many of these early over heels through the black· locomotives were bought berries and cinders, but just af· second·hand and looked like ter he jumped, the train plowed PrIor to this Urne, the Pet­ rolling jWlk piles, they got the over the bank above the two enons sent their logs to the job done. Usually the engine barns on the old H. L. Allen river down a huge chute that was kept headed uphill at all farm. When the locomotive came down the draw of the hill· times, running backward com· came to rest, aU that was left alde just south of the Roll Pet· ing down grade and running for· was the boiler. erson home, crossing the high­ ward when going back up into Although not common, run· way through a small bridge and the woods. This made it easier aways did happen occasionally coming down to the river across to keep the crownsheet of the on the Valley's several logging from the old Fern Colte! farm. boiler covered with water (thus Unes, sometimes with tragic re­ They would sound five long preventing a dry boiler expl<>­ sults. A wreck on the Forks Log· blasts on a whisUe before let· sian), and it also allowed the ging Company killed one man ting a turn of logs loose, which engineer to keep an eye on his on the engine just north of the would rumble down the chute at train during the most important COWlty Une, below the old Bie­ a high rate of speed and hit the period of acUvity. A3 the train derborst place. river with a mighty splash. came down the hill, three or About the last of the loc<>­ SomeUrnes the logs would stick four brakemen would ride the motive loggers in the Lower into the riverbank on the opp<>­ swaying loads, alternately set· VaUey was Grover Lazarus. site side or into the river bot· ting and releasing the hand Starting in the Griffin Creek tom, then a donkey engine at brakes on each car, keeping the area of Horrocks in 1919, he the bottom of the hill would pull train's speed in check. If the then moved down east of Car· the lugs loose and st.art them on brakies didn't keep a close wat­ nation in the mid-1920s and then their journey downriv cr to ch on their train, the loaded log moved to Duvall in 1929. He Everett. cars. each one much heavier built his logging railroad from a The Petersons' railroad than the locomotive, would get point on the Milwaukee Une nor· grade came down the hill away from them and come th of the bridge, through the behind the Pink Marty home, down the grade out of control. present Depot Trailer Park, heading south above the old Albert Denol! recently crossed the highway south of Leiper gravel pit (now Chap­ related a story about his Wlcle, town and went up through Tay· man's) and down to a log dump who was fireman on the Cherry ior Park, following Cae and on the river between Teegar. Valley Logging Company's dens' and Roll Peterson's. Part Clements creeks and passing htwo--spot, tI a 4Saton Clima.x alongside the big rock down in of this log dump can still be seen lokey that they used in their at low water, and Pink Marty early years. They were coming the park. Most of the grade can tells me that their aid water down the hill with 14 loads on be seen through the park, and tank for filling the locomotive disconnect cars and had the his railroad continued back into still stood up above the gravel brakes set on the rear three the woods beyond the pole tine, pit Wltil fairly recent years. cars to hold the train back. Sud· where Lazarus logged out the denUy, the train broke in two in stands of Urnber left by Cherry Why aU that work just to get a Valley Logging Company 17 the middle, and the locomotive locomotive out here? Well, years earlier. logging trucks hadn't been and seven cars began picking Lazarus finished up in 1934 heard of then, and the volume up speed despite the engineer's and scrapped out the railroad. libel·. 1 l13e of sand and the en­ luIul of railroads was by far the His old shay locomotive sat gine brakes. It soon became 01>­ most economical at the time. To abandoned and rusting away the logger, the locomotive was vious that Ule train was a run· below town for many years Wltil the most valuable piece of equip­ away and the crew began to it, too, was scrapped, ment in ttie woods. She could be abandon the train. Albert's Wl· Now diesel log trucks haul all used to load logs onto cars with cle climbed down the steps on of the logs out of the VaUey , and 8 "parbuckkle" system, and the north side of the engine and the truck's air horn has she unloaded cars at the dump prepared to jump, but the train replaced the sOWld of the locc>­ with a "jillpoke" or " McKnight" was passing a steep cut on his motive whistle echoing across unIoader. Equipped with cable side, so he hWlg on. A3 the train the hills. Another part of the and drum on the pilot, the loc<>­ came out of the cut it crossed a good old days that are gone for· motive could eVt!n do its own trestle, so he still couldn't jump. ever. yarding. Sometimes the A3 they came off the trestle, the locomoUve even !i8ved lives and train had now picked up can· property when she was used to siderable speed, but the pump water from a creek or fireman decided it was now or lake to put out a forest fire . never and let go. He went head

51 Mabel Mackey of Carnation, for I hope that you have enjoyed trying so hard to find a picture reading these articles on the Thanks For of the Stillwater School build­ Valley's past as much as I have ing. enjoyed writing them, and that The Memories To Rose Norenberg and Ruth it has given you an inslght as to McGlauflin for loan of the Du­ just how unique this area's his­ By AlIell MIller vall Ubrary's historical items. tory is. If you are a newcomer It has been great fun doing To Clifford Peennan for !iis to this ares, mayhe it has given the "Digging DuvaU's Past" ar­ stories of the Cherry Valley you a chance to compare our ticles these past 10 months and I Logging Company goes a big history with that of your area; if have met many new friends thanks and also to Leo Dough­ you are a native to the Lower during my research. I would not erty, a wealth of infonnation Valley, it may have given you a have been able to gather the In­ himself. Leo explained how the chance to see how things were formation needed to write those old swing bridge operated, and in your grandparents' Urne; articles had it not been for the he should know, as he used to and if you are a full-fledged assistance of a great many operate it! Leo also answered old-Urner, it probably brought people who contributed infor­ many other questions and back a few memories or maybe mation, leads, photographs and showed me how to find Cherry you even read a story about stories. I would now like to Creek Falls and an abandoned yourself. In any case, I thank thank aU those who contributed tresUe above the Conununily you for your many fine compli­ to this project by mentioning Club that I probably never ments along the way and for their name and their contribu­ would have found on my own. your continued support of pre­ tion, so that they may be To Hi and Edna Wallace, serving our VaUey's history. recognized for their part in pre­ thanks for answering the many If you see a guy with camera serving the Valley's history. questions I put to them, and and note pad sneaking through First of all, I wish to thank my thanks to Ward Roney for the your lower fields or in the woods grandmother, Nellie Miller, for information on last week's air­ just across the property line, patienUy answering all of my plane article and also the don't shoot! It's probably me many questions on Cherry Vai­ Leak's Grove information. looking for another clue to our ley and early Duvall, and for To Eric and the late Margaret past. tdenUlyIng the chUdren on the Adolphson for information and And while we're on the su~ Novelly School ~hot o • . To Meri­ photos of Novelty; to the late ject of giving thanks, I think the deth Owen goes a hearty thanks Colin Brown of Washougal for .taff at the Valley Record de­ for loaning me many of the the many excellent photos of serves a big thank you for early day photographs of Cherry Duvall and the shingle mill. To making these articles possible Valley that were used in the ar­ Bob Kosters for pinpointing and for doing an outstanding job Ucles. To Ralph Taylor, Du­ landmarks and to Mae Kosten of making room for my some­ vall'. official historian, goes a ror lOAn of photographs and for times too lengthy articles, and sincere thanks for his help and showing me lhe old ~lInken for the fine work in bringing out encouragement and his ferry boat in the river, Utanks. the details In the photographs generous loan of his historical To George Anderson for his used in many of the articles. tapes as I sought further su~ information on Lazarus Log­ jects to write about. , ging Company and to Pink Mar­ To Joyce Funk and Nellie ty for calling my attention to the Roetc.isoender for their loan of logging railroad grade above the "Jist Cogitatin'" articles, a his farm, goes a big thanks. series of newspaper stories on To Laurie Cadigan of the the Lower Valley written by the Weyerhaeuser Company ar­ late Don Funk in 1957, from chives goes a special thanks for which much of the information digging out Ule old records on for my articles was drawn, Cherry Valley Logging Com­ A special thanks to Elizabeth pany and also some very excel­ Hackenbruch, who loaned me lent photos that were used in the copies of the old Duvall Citizen logging article. Albert Denolf (1911-1917) and CarnavaU deserves a thanks for loaning Reporter (l95~-1963) news­ me a beautiful photo of Cherry papers, which contained a Valley's old Climax locomotive wealth of information on what and also an amusing story along happened and when. with it. To MUdred Pickering, Wes Abo a big thanks to my wife Larsen, Gunnar Johnson, Will­ Mary, who talked me into doing Iam Quaale, Margaret McCor­ the articles in the first place. D'tt.trrltit# D Ut/ALL's PAST mick and Harold Solberg for And to anyone I may have their contributions of pictures missed, I offer a heartfelt and stories about Novelty, Vin­ thanks for your important con­ cent and SUUwater schools. To tribution.

52 CHERRY GARDENS $30 to $60 an Acrt- Liberal Terml

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