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Thanks to David Wilma and Priscilla Long of historylink.org for this whiz-bang photo that only computer cognoscenti know how to compose. Hint: it takes a lot of work and we are very grateful. They recently took a photo, looking north on Metcalf Street in downtown Sedro-Woolley and matched it nearly seamlessly to a postcard of the exact same view that was taken in the Teen years. We know the date range because in the latter year, the Knights of Pythias Lodge added two more stories to their building in the left center of the photo, as you will see when it transforms before your eyes. The Princess Theater was then on the ground floor and present-owner Paul Kelly, of Cascade Fabrics, has designed his store to retain the old projection booth. Just to the left was the post office, which Skagit Realty erected in 1910 on the location where it stood until the present post office was erected on Woodworth Street in 1939. Ironically a postal-box store stands there today. Click on the postcard photo above to see the whizbang version; we did not upload it here because — Warning! — it takes a long while to upload for dial-up users. If anyone else has "Then and Now" photos like this, please email us. HistoryLink is the most important history resource on the web in Washington state.

Thinking about gifts for reunions, birthdays or other occasions? Due to continued popular demand, in the interest of furthering our "open source" policy, we have assembled a collection of CDs that include MS Word files of our pioneer profiles and town profiles from years 1-5, so that you can print them individually at your convenience, or for people who do not have access to the Internet. They are organized by region: Sedro-Woolley & surrounding area; Upper Skagit River from Utopia to Cascades plus logging, hunting and fishing; Western Skagit County and other counties. CD #1 for the Sedro-Woolley is already being shipped; the other two are in production. See our site with details of what is offered and the prices and ordering information.

Two-Spot Lokey at the entrance to Sedro-Woolley Our Wish List: Copies of photos, documents and articles that we would like to see . . . donated computer items we need . . . names searched for that we are tracking. Are you trading up for a newer system? Please think about donating your old printer. Ours just went belly up. Thanks for the thought. New features posted most recently: In addition to the newest features below, at this site you will find the nuts-and-bolts stories of pioneer life, including homesteading, exploration and many more subjects. Or see the page with portal links to subjects, towns and areas. Also see our Calendar. And stories most recently shared from our separate Subscribers Edition. Having a hard time finding stories on our site? Have you checked out our brand new page about How to Navigate the Journal? Read our exclusive annotated transcripts of the 1906 book, the Illustrated History of Skagit & Snohomish Counties. See why this is often called the "bible" of historians' collection as you read the first two Skagit County chapters with full annotations and photos about the first two decades of settling Skagit County mainland. Portal home with chapter links. Shared from our separate Subscribers-paid Edition. Folks in Lyman are excited at the prospect of converting the Minkler Mansion into Lyman City Hall and celebrating the annual Lyman Car Show at the Mansion on July 11, 2009. This home of Birdsey Minkler's family was recently listed for sale and a special foundation has been set up to raise funds, since the Lyman city treasury cannot accommodate the purchase. Initial response from grant agencies has been very positive. Read about how you can get involved or contribute at this external website. See Origins of Lyman, our exclusive story about the people and events of Lyman's early years, shared from Issue 44 of the Subscribers Journal online magazine, which includes profiles of 24 early pioneer families. Happy 50th Birthday, Skagit County Historical Society Our exclusive profile of Harrison Clothier and the birth of Mount Vernon, the town he founded with Edward G. English in 1877 — Part one — and new Part two now posted from the subscribers edition, plus an obit of English and the full story of his famous kidnapping while a timber magnate. The link has been repaired for Journal feature about the triangle formed by three railroads crossing north of Woolley town in 1890, the reason why Woolley became the dominant town over the two Sedros. Editor Bourasaw hospitalized: a letter from your editor. Read our latest book review, of Coll Thrush's terrific book, Native Seattle. We have totally revised and updated our Library/Books to read portal section, with dozens of reviews, mini-reviews and links to history books. And see our Wish List section where we note what documents and photos we are trying to find and we list computer equipment we hope that readers will consider donating to us. Stories about Centennials of Concrete, Lyman, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and Golden Jubilee of Skagit County Historical Society. Read about them all. Jason Miller attempts amazing feat: his plans to revive the Concrete Herald by May 6, in time to celebrate Concrete's Centennial. And how you can help in the process, which is progressing rapidly. The history and schedule of the Loggerodeo in Sedro-Woolley, July 1-5 this year. Photos of Big Four Inn, the nearby snow caves and other historic Snohomish County sites. Vi Hilbert, Skagit County's most revered linguist, author and Upper Skagit Indian, passed on at age 90 at her LaConner home on Dec. 19. Read her obituaries and profiles. Sent to an Oregon Indian school as a child, where speaking in her native language was punished, Hilbert revived the language and led the effort to preserve the ways of the Northwest Salish Indians. Also read about two public celebrations of her life on Dec. 26 and 27. See our completely updated Railroad Section This is the 150th anniversary year of the famous Fraser River gold rush in British Columbia, which first put Whatcom on the map, if only briefly. Read June Burn's 1931 columns where she reviewed the argonauts and the events. Walter Washington deLacy, father of the Old Military Road and the Whatcom Trail to Fraser River in 1858, and his fascinating life before and after his Whatcom years. Old stories about Sauk and Illabot Creek moved to this domain Our exclusive 3-part history of Sauk City on the south shore of the Skagit — which is now a pasture, and Sauk on the north shore, a railroad town, and the pioneer miners, farmers and storekeepers who braved the remote wilderness and the constant threat of floods on the trail to the Monte Cristo mines. Part of our 8-part Sauk section. A transcription of a Ray Jordan story about old Sauk City and the difficult transportation to and from. Old Sauk City and new (north-shore) Sauk memories of the Wainright and Gay families, with information by Diane Marie Wainright McMurdie, and a transcription of a Ray Jordan story about old Sauk City. Three-part history of the Henry and Katharine Martin family of Illabot Creek, and their son, Fred. Bessie Porter's memories of Sauk City, Rockport, Pressentins, Martins and the Great Northern railroad. And Ted Porter's memories and photos of Tom Porter and his famous cabin near Illabot Creek. Capsule biographies of North Cascades pioneers, A-L and a link to "M-Z." 1890 Magazine stories about Sedro and Woolley Young Sedro Young Woolley We have researched and discovered five articles about the beginning of Sedro and Woolley in 1890 magazines. Five stories shared from our Subscribers Edition. Sedro on the Skagit River, August 1890 Washington Magazine article that introduced readers to the booming town on the Skagit. Sedro's Improvements, October 1890 Washington Magazine article that listed improvements already made to the two towns of Sedro. Includes a fascinating endnote discovery that ties Sedro with Seattle attorney Elbert F. Blaine and the 1994 suicide of Seattle musician Kurt Cobain. Sedro and the coal mines near the Skagit River, 1890-91 Fairhaven Illustratedmagazine article that explained why the Fairhaven & Southern Railroad was built between Fairhaven on Bellingham Bay and Sedro on the Skagit, with all its resources. Woolley, the hub of Skagit Count, November 1890 Washington Magazine article that introduced readers to the booming town where 3 railroads would soon cross. Woolley has a leg up, 1891 Graphic Magazine article from Chicago that provided many details and statistics about Woolley's sudden rise and resources of Skagit Valley. The original Cascade Road — think of it while driving over Hwy 20 to Winthrop Introduction to this Cascade Pass series, with links to all the stories about the 80-year process to build a wagon road, which finally became the North Cross-State Highway in 1972. Multi-part section includes exploration from 1814, road plans from 1895, Devil's Elbow & Goat Trail, competing routes, David McIntyre's 1920s and 1930s promotion, All shared from our Subscribers Edition. David G. McIntyre profile and links about Skagit Steel & Iron Works. Greg Platt, genial salesman at Oliver-Hammer Clothes Shop in Sedro-Woolley, is also the genius behind the "Hashbrowner," a perfect gift and the secret to inexpensive, wholesome breakfasts. The Skagit County Commissioners and Dan Royal celebrated the 125th anniversary of the formation of Skagit County on Nov. 25, 2008. Read Chuck Easton's 1976 history of history of Skagit County. And publisher Charles Dwelley's 1953 Skagit County history. And a very early 1902 history of the county from Sebring's Illustrated magazine. Our new portal section with links to all 29 Journal stories by Ray Jordan of Sedro-Woolley. Did you know that the Sedro-Woolley High School cheerleaders set a record nation-wide 60 years ago? Read about the two sets of identical twins who cheered on the Cubs, and the genealogy of their Thomas and Osborne families. The Hard Fight for Hoogdal, by Ray Jordan. A community with its roots in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. Our newest book review, of Let the Chimes Ring Out, the terrific story of Mount Vernon's First Baptist Church and its founder, Rev. B.N.L. Davis, from Tennessee. This also includes reviews of Washington, Then and Now by Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard; The Nooksacht's Trail and Crossing by James Berg; Lake Chelan in the 1890s, by Robert Byrd. Also read reviews of two great Snohomish County histories, including our new review of Snohomish County, an Illustrated History, by David Cameron and Charles P. LeWarne, et al; and our review of Blake Warner's new photo book, Early Snohomish. E.R. Million, Mount Vernon attorney and capitalist from 1889 to 1906, associate of timberman Ed English and friend of the high and mighty. Readers ask and we answer 20 questions about Sedro-Woolley and the immediate area. Timeline of Sedro and Woolley through the merger in 1898. We know that Sedro and Woolley merged in December 1898 but did you know that the city council voted to consolidate the towns as early as 1891?

Read about how and when Mortimer Cook's town of Bug became Sedro in May 1885. Read more about what's new in historic Sedro-Woolley: Janicki Industries buys old city hall & new city hall opens on Metcalf . . . Leo's Pizza becomes Coconut Kenny's. . Article also includes: Sporting Goods store coming this summer on Metcalf Street; Boondocks reopens Townsend Hall in downtown Woolley; Just Moe's opens across the street from the old Castle Tavern; DC's Printing and Awards replaces Glenn Allen Jewelers. See our exclusive six-part series on William R. "Blanket Bill" Jarman, the first full study in 50 years about the first Whatcom/Skagit settler and all the myths surrounding him. We hosted a visit by his English relatives in June and July 2009. On July 8, 2008 — the 91st anniversary of the day that famed Canadian landscape artist Tom Thomson disappeared, we repost on the new domain our profile of Snohomish writer Alice Elinor Lambert and her 1904 romance with Thomson. See the latest list of featues in our optional JournalSubscribers Online Magazine, now in its ninth year. A brief history of the Dolbeer steam donkey, and the Ephraim Shay/Lima locomotive, which revolutionized logging methods from the 1880s onwards. On Sunday, April 27, 2008, Lynn Lennox of the Blanchard Wedding Chapel hosted a 100th Birthday Party for Egbert "Edward" R. Murrow. See the Murrow Portal Section for all the stories about him and the towns of Blanchard and Fravel. Note change in date from April 20. Have you ever wondered about the details of how moonshine was marketed during the Prohibition era? Otto Peterson, patriarch of a fascinating Marblemount family, told us how. Also see the Journal Introduction to Prohibition in Skagit County. John Fravel, namesake of the Oyster Bay/Chuckanut town that became Blanchard. Updated with new information, including the obituary of his mysterious father-in-law, George Hall Richardson. The original Oliver-Hammer Clothes Shop, circa 1921, and the modern evolved pioneer clothing store, in its location since 1958 and celebrating 88 years in business. Ku Klux Klan in Sedro-Woolley 1920s, and an overview of the KKK in Washington state and nationwide. The Two-Spot Lokey at the entrance to Woolley. Puget Sound & Baker River Railroad's logging legacy welcomes visitors. Sedro-Woolley Museum, 17 years of work by volunteers, without government stipends. See more recent new features below. See Oldies but Goodies from our archives. And see new featured series shared from recent issues of our Journal Subscribers Magazine

Recent featured pioneer series from our Journal Subscribers Magazine       Here are some stories that originated in our Subscribers Edition, which features our in-depth research, original exclusive stories, and transcriptions of rare materials — and is the source for 70 percent of our features. Most recently shared from Subscribers Edition Hammer mansion being razed Profiles of the Emerson Hammer mansion, which was razed in Sedro-Woolley in 1966, and of Isabel Hammer, Kansas and Skagit pioneer — the Blue Lady. Updated transcription of an account of Otto Pressentin and his 10 years in outback BC, 1911-21, by Ray Jordan, third in a series. E.R. Million, Mount Vernon attorney and capitalist from 1889 to 1906, associate of timberman Ed English and friend of the high and mighty. The Skagit County Courthouse Fight of 1909, when Burlington tried to wrest the courthouse from Mount Vernon. The history of the S'Klallam and Chemakum tribes of the Olympic Peninsula. Blanket Bill Jarman lived with them and met his wife, Alice, and Chief Sehome there. Bessemer, Birdsview and the Elliott Hotel, owned by Blanket Bill Jarman's daughter, Alice, and her husband, James Elliott. Frank Wilkeson's 1884 Sun River (Montana) Sun column of Sept. 18, 1884, about a frontier trader and his dog. Frank Wilkeson's 1885 New York Sun story about poker on the Wenatchee River and the scamp, Butch the Butcher. Kitsap County (originally Slaughter County) and the myth debunked that Blanket Bill Jarman was the first settler there. Genealogy special: history of old Ireland, by Alice Stopford Green Older stories shared from Subscribers Edition Part One — we explain the mystery of the Allen and Roray, dueling names for the town and the mill the two men opened there, plus a profile of Joy Busha. The story of the Hammer, Green and Parker families who made such an impact on Sedro-Woolley and Lincoln, Kansas, and inspired the new Hammer Heritage Square, Sedro-Woolley's beautiful downtown park. As we watch the magnificent McIntyre Hall in Mount Vernon host a varied entertainment venue, readers often inquire about where the endowment came from that paid for the building. The seed money came after the death of an old friend and a truly generous man, Jack McIntyre. Read about his family and the Skagit Steel business at this introduction site, with a timeline for the business from 1902 and links to other stories about the business and the family of David G. McIntyre, Sedro-Woolley's visionary from Michigan and truly a giant of Washington industry. Read our Subscribers Magazine story about how local businessmen took the ball into their own hands and raised the money to pay for the land and homes north of the original plant in 1953, actions that convinced Skagit Steel not to move away from Sedro. Woolley. First marriage licenses in Skagit county, 1884-86. Complete growing list of all the Mollie Dowdle stories in the Journal, and the 1966 introduction that the Skagit Valley Herald wrote about her. Read the full review of this fine book, Samish Island, a History, by Sue and Fred Miller, which all Skagit history-lovers will want to read, along with those who want to learn about the geology of the Puget Sound area and the "pre-history" of the Indians of the archipelago before the white settlers arrived. Sam Strom, the young Count of Monte Cristo, Norwegian immigrant of 1893, who worked the mines, later became a lawman and shared this memoir.

Oldies but Goodies Features that originated in the early years of our project, from 2000-05 The four British bachelors who staked out homesteads from future-Sedro to Sterling, starting in 1878, Batey, Hart, Dunlop and Woods. Read our exclusive two-part story on Birdsey Minkler, his mill, his family and the upper Skagit river that results from ten years of research and correspondence with his descendents.. P.A. Woolley, profile of his family and his company town. Introduction to and biography of Mortimer Cook, founder of Bug/Sedro. See 6 rare old photos about the 3 trains in the famous 1890s Sedro-Woolley triangle Samuel Simpson Tingley, Washington Territory pioneer of 1859, who settled on the north fork of the Skagit in 1867 and then Day Creek in 1880. Amasa Peg-Leg Everett, the 1870s settler who discovered coal, lost a leg and then discovered the limestone that led to the cement companies and Baker City/Concrete. See the Cement City street fair above re: July 26. Who was The Duke of Duke's Hill? The real story versus the many myths. And read about Bottomless Lake, where he lived, and see a photo essay about the lake, where many pioneer kids learned to swim. James B. Hamilton, 1900 clerk for Bingham's Woolley bank. And his Baker Lake-pioneer parents, Frank and Adelaide Hamilton Frank Wilkeson, mining engineer, civil war veteran and author and boomer who lived in Hamilton, Fairhaven and Chelan from the 1880s to 1900 and whose New York Times columns put Skagit County on the national map. Closing Northern State Hospital: we reprint articles from the 1968-78 time period when the hospital was being closed and then reborn as a different facility. And the introduction to the Northern State portal, one of the three most popular sections. Gertrude Sawyer, nurse and matron at the old Memorial Hospital in Sedro-Woolley. See the extensive list of all Sedro-Woolley-related stories in our Check out Sedro-Woolley First section. We are updating our Hamilton History section this winter. Here is the link to the Introduction site. We hope that readers will help us as we update the present stories and add new chapters about historic Hamilton families. Humor on the frontier Three readers' favorites of Skagit County humor features — Otto Klement: Hogtied! Good ole boys in 1882 Lyman — devil rum, hijinks and cooking a pig . . . Frank Wilkeson — Two hobos of old Bug/Sedro, from the Dec. 14, 1890, New York Times. From Whatcom County and Fairhaven. Our own research about the apocryphal Consolidated Black Cat Co. Ltd., the most famous story about Mr. Wardner while he lived in Fairhaven. He fooled a gullible reporter and several subsequent historians and story-tellers by referring to Sam Weller, a fictional character from The Pickwick Papers. Floods and snow stories, timely for the season The Mother of all Skagit Floods, 1815 through the twin floods of 1896-97 and the two November 1990 floods that may have been the worst in tandem. Larry Kunzler and Dan Berentson launch a new website that explores Skagit river floods in depth — past, present and future. See the links to the huge collection of documents that they have posted that include hundreds of newspaper articles from throughout the 20th century. In 1958, Otto Pressentin recalled the 1897 Skagit River flood that wiped out several downriver towns and how he helped save the books and bell from the Marblemount School where he was teaching. Part 4 of the Otto B.C. Series, 1911-21. Plus, we have now found the complete article that started the series, from April 24, 1958.

More new features The real and the unreal story of Sedro and Woolley's merger in December 1898; myth debunked. And did you know that the towns almost merged as early as 1891? Deanna Ammons discovered the story. Read about Skagit City, where settlement of the Skagit River region began, and about the annual July picnic at the 1902 Skagit City School on Fir Island. Would you like to help preserve the school? R.I.P. Fred Slipper, 1917-2007. With links to the full history of the Slipper and Sprinkle families of Hamilton Charles Woodworth, long-lost but now-found namesake for Sedro-Woolley's street. And a Tacoma promoter. Amariah Kalloch III, namesake of Kalloch Road, Prairie pioneer and his famous family, which included the late Glenn Hall. Read about how the Froggy Orchestra entertained settlers around the swamp that became P.A. Woolley's original company town in 1890, and how that area north of the railroad tracks is changing today, becoming almost chic. Charles Wicker at 60 Charles J. Wicker arrives in Sedro in 1884, on the way to becoming county's most powerful real estate agent. Rebuilding downtown Woolley post-July 1911 devastating fire. The birth of our brick downtown. Now that the beautiful new Burlington Library has opened, we direct readers to our growing collection of features about Burlington pioneers and the town itself. This library is a dream come true and it also includes an expanded Skagit Valley Genealogical Society library, the best resource available for historians, students and genealogists. A review of a wonderful book that illustrates the spirit, perseverance and consternation and challenges of the pioneer woman: Bold Spirit, by Linda Lawrence Hunt. The story of Helga Estby, Norwegian immigrant and mother of nine, who accepted a challenge to walk across America from Spokane in 1896, and collect a wager that would save her family home. This is the newest addition to our updated section about Frontier Women. See the extensive list of all Sedro-Woolley-related stories in our Check out Sedro-Woolley First section. Introduction portal to the Goodell family, which had a marked impact on all of Washington Territory from the year it was formed in 1853, with special emphasis on Lewis, Thurston, Skagit and Whatcom counties. Capsule profiles of the major characters of the family and their biographers, especially Phoebe Goodell Judson, the mother of Lynden, and Edward Goodell, namesake of Goodell's Landing, founded in 1879 near future Newhalem during the gold rush. Updated 2007 with photos of the family. Who wrote "Go West, Young Man"? Horace Greeley or John B. Soule? Sedro-Woolley Fire Truck 2, dating from 1938, has been found in Whatcom County. Read about how you can help the Fire-fighters Association purchase and restore the truck. Introduction to Darius Kinsey, Sedro-Woolley's most famous photographer; he lived here from 1897-1906. Also includes information about the complete Kinsey collection at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art and links to other Journal Kinsey stories and other background sources. Washington Territory Attorney General James Metcalfe, namesake of Metcalf street in old Woolley and the man who pulled the strings to pave the way for P.A. Woolley's company town. Return to top for newest posted features See this page for more recent-2007 postings, sorted by geographic area and category.

Calendar June 27, 2-5 p.m., Burlington Library meeting room, seminar with descendants of family of Blanket Bill Jarman, no charge, open to public, many authors appear July 11, all day in Lyman, Centennial of Lyman town celebration, games for kids, entertainment, tours of Minkler Mansion. First Thursday in August annually: 105th Pioneer Picnic, 2009, hosted by Skagit County Pioneers Association at Pioneer Park just south of town of LaConner. Opens 10:30 a.m., salmon BBQ provided by LaConner Civic Garden Club. Contact John Summers (360) 466-4703 for more details or see map and schedule. Aug. 8 (second Saturday annually), noon, Lyman all-school reunion, plus tours of Minkler Mansion/new city hall The Sedro-Woolley High School Alumni Association will hold its annual "All Class Picnic" the second Saturday in July at Riverfront Memorial Park on the site of Mortimer Cook's original town of Bug/Sedro-Woolley. Schedule is from noon to 4 p.m., including a fully catered BBQ Salmon/Chicken dinner starting at 1 p.m. Tickets on sale at the picnic area registration tables to benefit the Association's Vocational Scholarship Program. Details: call Barbara Thompson at (360) 855-0293 or Ed Hoyt at 856-1705. Return to Newest Features . . Return to home page

Thanks and acknowledgments:     Thank you very much to Dr. Jesse Kennedy and Dr. Linda Newman-Kennedy, Ron and Pastor Wendy, Tingley, the late Reno Odlin, Dan and Maureen Royal, Peni Ramsey and Larry and Josef Kunzler for contributing computer items to the Journal. You made our Christmas very merry. And special thanks to Berniece Hoyt Leaf, who inspired us to launch this project long ago and has been our most ardent supporter. Meanwhile, our old, tired computers and accessories are getting sick. If you are trading up and would like to find a home for your old equipment, please let us know.     (In photo at right) June Burn, one of the finest Northwest writers, circa 1940s. See the Frontier Women section for the links to her biography, her book, Living High and her 1930s columns about the 1858 Fraser River gold rush.

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After we complete our CD project, we would like to launch our satellite site, the Washington and British Columbia Travel Advisor. Do any of you remember the International Loop Magazine. We edited it back in the 1990s and described that wonderful 400-mile trip across the North Cascades on Highway 20 from Sedro-Woolley to the Columbia River, via Winthrop and Pateros, then up through Okanogan County to Osoyoos and British Columbia, and west on Canada One through Princeton and Hope and Chilliwack, and back down Highway 9 or I-5 to Skagit County, and all the little historic towns along the way in both countries, all with their own stories? Readers have requested a reprise, so watch for it. Do you have any information or photos to add, or do you have a town you want to learn more about? We would also like to spawn soon a section on the history of wine and vineyards of Washington, contrasted with the exploding number of wineries from less than 40 to well more than 100, in just 30 years. Our plans will be influenced by your interest in either or both ideas. Please email if you would like to see them and if there are particular subjects that would interest you in either spinoff site.

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