near modern Winthrop, Washington: Belcher Camp: Ferry County: c. 1897 Bishop: Blewett: Bodie: Bolster: Bonita: Bordeaux Thurston County 1890s 1941 Logging town that had a post office by 1909. THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WESTERN WASHINGTON LOGGING CAMPS: ST. PAUL AND TACOMA LUMBER COMPANY’S CAMP #5 ca. Camp Grisdale was the first Simpson Logging Camp that was planned and constructed on a flat, bulldozed area. Grisdale or Camp Grisdale, was a logging town in Grays Harbor County, Washington. The St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company (SPTLC) harvested the Kapowsin Timberlands from the early 1900s to the late 1950s. Bossburg: Brief: Camp 1 Canyon: Cedarville: Clay City Towering above, looking directly down on the camp was Grisdale Lookout, often called Camp 3 Lookout. The establishment of logging camps and saw mills brought in migrants from around the country, particularly from West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, and other eastern states. I have not pegged down when the name changed. The loggers ate enormous quantities of food, an average of 8,000 calories a day, in order to have the stamina for th… The access then and now for this fire lookout begins at old Camp 3. Donkey engine at Olson's logging camp, Deep River, Washington (3329042829).jpg 2,722 × 3,860; 4.7 MB. While logging with oxen and horses continued well into the 1890s, that period marked the rapid introduction of steam donkeys into the western logging camps. Initial logging enterprises in mid-1800s Washington existed to supply timber to California’s Gold Rush and the population growth it precipitated. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, 431st Squad Spruce Division members at retreat ceremony, camp no 6, Saginaw Timber Company, ca 1918 (KINSEY 542).jpeg, Anderson and Middleton Lumber Company camp at North River, Grays Harbor County, ca 1918 (KINSEY 31).jpeg, Asian crew members, Goodyear Logging Company, ca 1919 (KINSEY 131).jpeg, Blacksmith crew, Lester Logging Company, ca 1915 (KINSEY 198).jpeg, Bordeaux Brothers Logging Co camp, Mason County, Washington, ca 1895 (INDOCC 569).jpg, Bunkhouse interior, unidentified logging camp, Washington, 1892 (INDOCC 55).jpg, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company railroad logging camp no 3, ca 1917 (KINSEY 65).jpeg, Construction crew preparing raised wood foundations for railroad logging camp buildings, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near (KINSEY 1891).jpeg, Crew at camp, Twin Falls Logging Company, Yacolt, ca 1916 (KINSEY 2601).jpeg, Crew at camp, with locomotive and cars, ca 1918 (KINSEY 775).jpeg, Crew at camps 3 and 5, with mess hall crew standing on steps of mess hall with saw blade dinner gong, Saginaw Timber Company (KINSEY 543).jpeg, Crew at logging camp no 3, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, 1922 (KINSEY 944).jpeg, Eufaula Company railroad logging camp, ca 1921 (KINSEY 87).jpeg, Falling crew and railroad logging camp, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, ca 1917 (KINSEY 64).jpeg, Family Buick Six railroad logging camp Washington state circa 1924.jpg, Independence Logging Company's railroad logging camp 5, ca 1924 (KINSEY 1951).jpg, Loggers and camp crew at National Lumber and Manufacturing Company camp 7, probably in Cedarville, ca 1923 (KINSEY 1111).jpeg, Loggers and mess hall crew at railroad logging camp, Copalis Lumber Company, near Carlisle, ca 1918 (KINSEY 2071).jpeg, Loggers and mess hall crew with locomotive and log train,Camp 6, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca 1920 (KINSEY 1904).jpeg, Loggers at camp 1, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca 1920 (KINSEY 1910).jpeg, Loggers at camp 4, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca 1920 (KINSEY 1896).jpeg, Loggers at camp 7, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca 1920 (KINSEY 1884).jpeg, Loggers at railroad logging camp 6, Puget Sound Mill and Timber Company, possibly at Majestic, ca 1922 (KINSEY 1275).jpeg, Loggers at railroad logging camp, National Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Cedarville, ca 1923 (KINSEY 1120).jpeg, Logging and mess hall crew at railroad logging camp, Waite Mill and Timber Company, ca 1920 (KINSEY 734).jpeg, Logging and mess hall crews at camp, Copalis Lumber Company, ca 1917 (KINSEY 68).jpeg, Logging camp 1, Simpson Logging Company, Mason County, ca 1924 (KINSEY 1644).jpg, Logging camp, Wynooche Timber Company, near Montesano, ca 1921 (KINSEY 1609).jpeg, Logging camp, Wynooche Timber Company, probably in Grays Harbor County, ca 1921 (KINSEY 1503).jpeg, Logging crew and cook at Coal Creek Lumber Company camp, ca 1921 (KINSEY 42).jpeg, Logging crew at camp, Bordeaux Lumber Company, ca 1919 (KINSEY 1).jpeg, Logging crew at camp, Ebey Logging Company, ca 1917 (KINSEY 156).jpeg, Logging crew at camp, train engine in background, Danaher Lumber Company, ca 1916 (KINSEY 140).jpeg, Logging crew at railroad car mess hall, with Clark Kinsey photographs piled to one side, Vance Lumber Company, Malone, ca 1916 (KINSEY 727).jpeg, Logging crew at Wynooche Timber Company's camp no 1, ca 1921 (KINSEY 979).jpeg, Logging crew with caboose, Yeoman Lumber Company, Pe Ell, ca 1920 (KINSEY 984).jpeg, Lumber mill crew, Copalis Lumber Company, ca 1917 (KINSEY 67).jpeg, Mead and Miley logging camp, Mukilteo, Washington, 1905 (INDOCC 40).jpg, Members of the Spruce Division 431st Squad at camp no 6, Saginaw Timber Company, ca 1918 (KINSEY 541).jpeg, Mess hall crew at camp, Puget Sound Mill and Timber Company, Twin, ca 1921 (KINSEY 556).jpeg, Mess hall crew at Coats-Fordney Lumber Company camp no 1, ca, 1917 (KINSEY 62).jpeg, Mess hall crew in dining room, Wynooche Timber Company, probably in Grays Harbor County, ca 1921 (KINSEY 1518).jpeg, Mess hall crew, Hamilton Logging Company, ca 1912 (KINSEY 247).jpeg, Mess hall crew, Lewis Mills and Timber Company camp no 4, ca 1922 (KINSEY 242).jpeg, Mess hall crew, Lincoln Creek Lumber Company, ca 1920 (KINSEY 226).jpeg, Mess hall crew, National Lumber and Manufacturing Company, ca 1920 (KINSEY 294).jpeg, Mess hall crew, National Lumber and Manufacturing Company, ca 1920 (KINSEY 295).jpeg, Mess hall interior and crew, Copalis Lumber Company, ca 1917 (KINSEY 69).jpeg, Mess hall interior, Bordeaux Logging Company, ca 1919 (KINSEY 6).jpeg, Mess hall interior, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company camp no 4, ca 1918 (KINSEY 767).jpeg, Mess hall interior, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, Camp 1, ca 1917 (KINSEY 50).jpeg, Mess hall with view into galley, Wynooche Timber Company, near Montesano, ca 1921 (KINSEY 1606).jpeg, National Lumber and Manufacturing Company's railroad logging camp 7, possibly in Cedarville, ca 1923 (KINSEY 1115).jpeg, Phoenix Logging Company's camp no 1, near Price Lake, ca 1919 (KINSEY 408).jpeg, Railroad camp no 1 with banner welcoming the Pacific Logging Congress, 1922 (KINSEY 926).jpeg, Railroad camp with Shay locomotive in distance, Lincoln Creek Lumber Company, ca 1920 (KINSEY 231).jpeg, Railroad logging camp 1, Simpson Logging Company, Mason County, ca 1924 (KINSEY 1653).jpg, Railroad logging camp 4, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca 1920 (KINSEY 1885).jpeg, Railroad logging camp and trestle bridge, Wynooche Timber Company, ca 1921 (KINSEY 969).jpeg, Railroad logging camp, Coal Creek Lumber Company, ca 1921 (KINSEY 43).jpeg, Railroad logging camp, National Lumber and Manufacturing Company, probably in Grays Harbor County, ca 1923 (KINSEY 1134).jpeg, Railroad logging camp, showing bunkhouse cars in foreground and kitchen and mess hall cars in distance, Northern Coast Timber (KINSEY 354).jpeg, Railroad logging camp, Stetson and Post Lumber Company, Maple Valley, ca 1924 (KINSEY 883).jpg, Railroad logging camp, Wynooche Timber Company, probably in Grays Harbor County, ca 1921 (KINSEY 1508).jpeg, Railroad logging camp, Yeoman Lumber Company, Pe Ell, ca 1920 (KINSEY 983).jpeg, Railroad tracks and camp, Eufaula Company, ca 1921 (KINSEY 88).jpeg, Schafer Brothers Logging Company foremen with hats off, probably in Grays Harbor County, ca 1920 (KINSEY 1150).jpeg, Schafer Brothers Logging Company foremen with hats on, probably in Grays Harbor County, ca 1920 (KINSEY 1186).jpeg, Two men and a woman at logging camp, with speeder on railroad tracks, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca 1920 (KINSEY 1893).jpeg, "The Fleming and Ayerst Company's logging camp" "Photo by La Roche" before 1894 detail, from- Washington,the evergreen state, and Seattle its chief city; a souvenir for 1893-94- (IA washingtontheeve00pros) (page 13 crop).jpg, Woman and children at a railroad logging camp, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, ca 1917 (KINSEY 57).jpeg, Wynooche Timber Company's camp no 2, showing water tower, bunkhouses, saw filer shack and trestle and donkey engines in distance (KINSEY 972).jpeg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Logging_camps_in_Washington_(state)&oldid=391064416, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Zoom closer using the google tools. 1986 - - Major additions completed on the buildings and grounds at Camp 18 Logging Museum near Seaside, Oregon- one of my favorite spots. They set up a camp, consisting of rudimentary bunkhouses and mess halls. In Washington, the loggers had the place to themselves for many years, and the area gained its reputation as a den of vice and lawlessness. Click the pins to see pictures and learn about projects. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the. I went as far as the train went; to the most remote of the logging camps - that of Jacques Freneau in the very heart of the woods. There was a reunion on August 14, 2005 for everyone who resided and worked at Grisdale or Camp Govey. Photo courtesy of Polson Museum, Hoquiam, Washington. Town site purchased by Courtney Love in the 2000s; some concrete foundations and a smokestack remain. Dumping logs into the water from railroad cars, Aberdeen, Washington, ca 1920 (WASTATE 88).jpeg 768 × 471; 91 KB. View CCC Camps in a larger map. Sep 28, 2019 - Explore Gayla Thompson's board "Logging in the Pacific Northwest" on Pinterest. The following 73 files are in this category, out of 73 total. Green Timber: On the flood tide to fortune in the great northwest. Document 34: Inside a Bunkhouse at a Logging Camp, circa 1900 UW negative 9282, Industries and Occupations Photo Collection, SC-UW. The reason English operated so many camps at once was that logging had advanced so fast that a camp could handle only two sides, each composed of one loader and one yarder. The majority of parks are open year round. 47 of 63 "In the early 1890s, about a third of Washington's population worked in logging camps, sawmills, shingle mills, and in factories making wooden doors and … To provide adequate time for cleaning and sanitizing to COVID-19 standards, the check-in time for roofed accommodations (such as cabins, yurts and vacation houses) has changed from 2:30 to 4 p.m. State Parks is not taking new reservations for cabins and yurts through June 30, 2020. Logging camps were known to start forest fires. Today nothing remains of the town except some old things left behind, some foundations, and a rusted out truck. Smaller logs are brought back to a logging camp by a team of six mules, pulling them along a skid-road of logs placed across the path. Palo Alto: American West PC, 1968 A first-person account of life in the booming lumber town of Tacoma, WA in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s. Other workers lived in transitory and fairly primitive logging camps. 1 of 68 "In the early 1890s, about a third of Washington's population worked in logging camps, sawmills, shingle mills, and in factories making wooden doors and … Rayonier operated Hoko Camp as a logging base and fueling station for logging railroad locomotives from the late 1920s – late 1960s. 1934-1947 Kayley Marie Bass August 2017 Despite the importance of logging to Washington State’s heritage, there is little information on the life in the logging industry and the lumbermen who helped shape western Washington. See more ideas about logging industry, pacific northwest, old photos. After a timber cruiser surveyed an area and found a good logging location, the boss logger—the manager or owner—obtained a title to cut the trees and moved to the locale with his crew. Follow the Great Depression Project/ Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project on Facebook. Despite the importance of logging to Washington State’s heritage, there is little information on the life in the logging industry and the lumbermen who helped shape western Washington. Mineral originally began as a mining town. Grisdale was the last company owned logging camp in the lower 48 states. Logging camps can provide historical context about the people who inhabited these camps. They also formed Lumbermen’s Mercantile, the principal supplier of logging equipment and logging camp supplies. Though the mines failed early in Mineral's history the town found new life as the site of a logging camp and sawmill, both of with are no longer in operation. 1985 - - Simpson Timber closes 'Camp Grisdale', the last and largest logging camp in Washington State, the end of an era and a sad day indeed. This interactive map shows the location of a selection of most of the Civilian Conservation Corps camps established in Washington State between 1933 and 1939. Aug 10, 2015 - Today's picture was taken in 1908, and shows a Logging Train in Washington State. Photo courtesy: Mason County Historical Society. While most national park campgrounds are first-come, first served, Washington state parks usually accept reservations. Camp Grisdale was envisioned by George Lincoln Drake, chief forester and vice president of Simpson’s logging division. Over 1000 images by commercial photographer Clark Kinsey and photographer Darius Kinsey documenting the logging and milling camps and other forest related activities in Washington State… Drake planned a neat town with houses designed to attract housewives: “To keep a good man, you’ve got to please his … A cook who could provide good, hearty meals to loggers kept the crews happy and contributed to the success of the company. In Washington State, clearcutting was once a necessary step in taming the land for habitation and jump-starting a local economy that would pave the way for development of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Libraries: Digital Collections: Clark Kinsey Photographs Over 1000 images by commercial photographer Clark and his brother Darius Kinsey documenting the logging and milling camps and other forest related activities in Washington State, ca. The great state of Washington once wowed explorers Lewis and Clark and it still impresses today with snow-capped mountains, misty forests, and rocky beaches. Within a month of the repeal of the speaking ban, Grays Harbor workers had formed three Wobbly locals, which hosted nightly street meetings and weekly hall lectures. The key source for this map was Edwin G. Hill, In the Shadow of the Mountain: The Spirit of the CCC (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1990) Brian Harris helped with research. Pacific Northwest “Logging Camp Life” 1850-1940 A Collection of Annotated Bibliographies Ripley, Thomas Emerson. It is located at the … Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium, Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium | University of Washington. The Hoko Logging Camp site is located approximately 15 miles south of Sekiu on Hoko Ozette Road. He joined up with Sol Simpson (1844-1906) to organize the Simpson Logging Company. The rules in this book are effective October 2017. Discover and compare 435 Summer Camps in Washington. Few outsiders dared venture into some of the towns. Model railroad ponds model railroad logging camp. Additionally, State Parks is not taking new reservations for vacation houses, day use facilities, group camps and retreat centers u… The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported in 1898 that the four largest logging companies in the state operated in Mason County. It appears that this logging camp also was home to a small sawmill, as stacked lumber can be seen behind the team. Logging camps had an outstanding reputation for serving wonderful meals from which no man ever left hungry. Most notorious were the cities around Grays Harbor, such as Aberdeen and Hoquiam. Patrick Kelly designed the google map. This category has only the following subcategory. Led by the IWW, the strike spread from Grays Harbor to mills and logging camps in Pacific County and the Puget Sound. In 1925 English formed Camp 11 as the base for logging on Frailey and Stimson mountains, west of Bryant, and it continued until 1935, according to Bill Mason. The trees are 12 foot diameter fir trees. Edmonds Historical Museum - logging implements.jpg 4,288 × 2,848; 4.66 MB. Prospecters searching the area for gold instead found coal and arsenic. Early in the '90s, advertising of steam donkey commenced to appear in the Puget Sound Lumberman , a well known lumber magazine of that era and later succeeded by the West Coast Lumberman . Rayonier dismantled the site buildings, foundations, and rail lines after the camp was closed in the late 1960s. 1910-1945. Most campsites in 30 Washington state parks are now open and available for reservations. The logging industry has played a significant role in Lewis County's economy since the late 1800s. Log cabin hunting camp hunting cabin interior. Patrick Kelly designed the google map. Media in category "Logging camps in Washington (state)" The following 73 files are in this category, out of 73 total. One of the largest in Mason County was Camp 3, run by the Simpson Logging Company. This map is based on. Washington State Logging Old Logging Washington St Bridge Washington State Logging History. This page was last edited on 30 January 2020, at 16:30. Included with the lunch was a piece of cake or fruit for dessert. Log cabin in the mountains log cabins lakes. The camps at Oak Point, Ostrander and Ryderwood employed hundreds of men, and the city of Longview was a direct result of the success of the Long-Bell Company. Cooks in logging camps were extremely important to the success of the operation. Prefab homes log cabin ranch 1 story log cabin kits. More than 2 million parents every year book their perfect camp on MySummerCamps. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Think yurts, cabins, backcountry sites, and even kayak and bike-in sites. A bad cook could cause discontent among the men and cause them to quit and move on to a better run camp. Lunch consisted of three full sandwiches, two of which contained meat and the other perhaps butter and jam. The key source for this map was Edwin G. Hill, In the Shadow of the Mountain: The Spirit of the CCC (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1990) Brian Harris helped with research. Safety Standards for Logging Operations _____ Chapter 296-54 WAC Safety Standards for Logging Operations (Form Number F414-016-000) This book contains rules for safety standards for logging operations, as adopted under the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act of 1973 (Chapter 49.17 RCW). I hope to use this page to document known logging camps, saw mills, and other logging-related industries in Cowlitz Co., and provide links to resources where researchers can learn more. Historical logging camps represent an important period in the resource extraction history of the United States. Mineral is a small town in Lewis County, Washington just off State Route 7 near the Pierce/Lewis county line. Every type of camping you can imagine can be found in Washington. The camp was in a clearing beside the tracks. The caption on the reverse side of this print indicates that it was probably taken in the Bordeaux Brothers Logging Company camp near Shelton, Washington. 431st Squad Spruce Division members at retreat ceremony, camp no 6, Saginaw Timber Company, ca 1918 (KINSEY 542).jpeg 491 × 600; 50 KB.