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Volume 11, Issues 58 and 59, November-December 2011
. . . Ending our 11th Year on the WWW

Fairhaven Hotel, 1890-1955

Sedro's 1890 Township school
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Issue 59 December 2011

Courier-Times Tella-Pix photo features from 1950s-'70s New Portal section to all links
Tella-Pix Sedro-Woolley businesses 1960s, Part 1 Clothing Stores and others	Tella-Pix Sedro-Woolley businesses 1960s, Part 2, Autos, service stations and others
Tella-Pix Sedro-Woolley businesses 1960s, Part 3, Grocers, Furniture stores, TV, Appliances, Jewelers and others	Tella-Pix Sedro-Woolley businesses 1960s, Part 4, Restaurants, Food, Dug Stores and others
Tella-Pix Sedro-Woolley businesses 1960s, Part 5 Professionals, Hardware, Barbers, Beauty Salons	Many more Tella-Pix and other photo features coming in 2012

Journal History of early Sedro, Woolley and Sedro-Woolley schools, completely revised
Part 1: Pre-Sedro (1883-1890)	Part 2: Sedro, Woolley & Barefoot Schoolboy Law (1890-1900)
Sedro-Woolley High School graduates, the first 20 years (pulled for additions, see Issue 60)

History of the late, great and truly grand Fairhaven Hotel (1890-1955)
The Rise and Fall of the once-majestic Fairhaven Hotel, circa 1890s, a 1965 memory. With other history items about Fairhaven.	The 1953 Washington Territorial Centennial Museum, set up in the aging, amputated Fairhaven Hotel, just weeks before the wrecking ball came swinging in.

More Issue 59 features

Norm Lisherness, Sedro-Woolley's beloved chief of police.
New information discovered about one of Woolley's most influential early leaders, George Green, who attracted at least 75 more emigrants from Lincoln Center, Kansas, the town he founded. His son-in-law Emerson Hammer became state senator from Skagit county.
John Savage, Birdsview painter, son of George, whose autobiography he shared

Joseph F. Dwelley, 1870 Puget sound pioneer

Gilbert Landre's 1892 North Cascades cabin/hotel, restoration 2000s
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Complete Issue 58 November 2011

Joseph F. Dwelley, Whidbey and Skagit pioneer, 1870
Discovery of the decade
Our new portal section to the Dwelley and Maloy families, three generations of pioneers.

Introduction to Joseph F. Dwelley and our Discovery of the Decade,
the original manuscript of his autobiography

Kate Dwelley Maloy, interviewed by Lucile McDonald in 1959, re: her family

Re-posted from corrupted file: Joseph H. Sartwell, first permanent
Skagit settler, 1863, South fork

New portal section to all our stories and research about the earliest settlers
in what is now Skagit county

More Issue 58 features

Photo tour of Gilbert Landre's famous 1892 cabin/hotel near Cascade Pass.
1940: Skagit soil rated the best in the nation
The Bingham family of old Sedro attracted more relatives and emigrants from Marengo, Iowa
"See Mud on Tree — Build Higher" — how that phrase came about, between Upper Skagit Indians and 1878 Sedro pioneer Joseph Hart

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