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| TRIBE | FILM # | PAGE # |
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| Clallam | T 623-1742 | 81A |
| Clallam--Dungeness Pct | T 623-1742 | 115A |
| Clallam--Eden Pct | T 623-1742 | 68B |
| Makah | T 623-1742 | 81A |
| Makah--LaPush Pct | T 623-1742 | 85A |
| Neah Bay | T 623-1742 | 68B; 115A |
| Ozette Pct | T 623-1742 | 90A |
| Pysht | T 623-1742 | 81A |
| Quillayute | T 623-1742 | 81A; 115A |
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"DREAMS OF UTOPIA |
PUGET SOUND COOPERATIVE COLONY SURNAMES |
1887 R L POLK and CO. PUGET SOUND DIRECTORY |
The following article was printed in Strait
History, the quarterly publication of the Clallam County Historical
Society and Museum, Vol 3 #2, Winter 1987 and includes some pictures of
the colony . Donna Cloud is the research librarian for the Society and
her article appears here with her consent. She gives her sources as: LeWarne's
Utopias on Puget Sound; The Story of Port Angeles; Port Angeles, A History;
We Grew Up Together, Jimmy Come Lately History of Clallam County, A History
of the North Olympic Peninsula and materials in The Museum and public libraries.
These publications are available at the Port Angles Public Library and/or
the Clallam County Genealogical Society. See
Libraries
"Dreams of Utopia on Puget Sound 100 Years Ago" |
In 1887, the first modern communitarian experiment in Washington state chose the crude frontier village of Port Angeles as its site. The Puget Sound Cooperative Colony's dream of a working class utopia never quite got off the ground, but the people it brought helped to establish Port Angeles as a strong, modern and permanent city.
Dreams of utopia were in the air. Among the dreamers were Peter Good and George Venable Smith, who had met in the 1880's. Both were attorneys with an idealistic philosophy in common. They believed people should receive for their efforts not money, but the necessities of life. If money as a means of exchange were outlawed, the employer would no longer be able to exploit the worker, they maintained.
George Venable Smith became involved in the Chinese "problem" while living in Seattle. Although Chinese numbered only a few more than 3,000 in Washington Territory, they were enough to upset white laborers, who believed their own wages and employment opportunities were jeopardized. Smith, who had won appointment as Seattle's acting city attorney, counseled caution, but he presided at mass meetings, and plans of attack against the Chinese were laid in his office. Because of his influence, Smith was acquitted of conspiracy in the trials that followed actions against the Chinese, and he escaped disbarment.
Several leaders of the anti-Chinese element were working to organize a utopian community. Peter Good, the instigator, had visited a co-operative colony at Guise, France, and was inspired to found a similar co-operative. With this in mind, he moved to Seattle, where Smith saw that Good was admitted to the bar. Good became involved in political and labor issues, including the Chinese "problem." Along with other agitators, he was imprisoned for 10 days, soon after became ill and died, but colony plans already were underway.
Organizational meetings were held in October 1885 to draw up plans. Good had shown Smith "illustrated maps of a city beautiful with co-operative homes. . . and all industry upon a co-operative system." Smith was determined to organize such a colony. Finally in May 1887, after much organizing and proselytizing across the country, a convention of delegates assembled to draft articles of incorporation and bylaws. The business community opposed its venture as radical socialism.
In early 1887, the colony claimed 500 members and had $15,000 cash. Members could purchase interest-bearing stock or interest which gave them the right to purchase lots. A secret location for the venture had been selected in 1886; colony directors now announced that location.
By January, 1887, twenty-two members already had arrived on the town site near Port Angeles, which at that time was a rough, crude collection of buildings clustered around a wharf at the west end of the harbor and lined up eastward along the beach. by June, the colony had erected several buildings at its site at the mouth of Ennis Creek (now occupied by the ITT Rayonier Mill * ), and by the 4th of July, 239 colonists had arrived. Later, 400 more came to try the experiment, sponsored by an organization that now had 1000 members. The colonists became known as the "east enders" in elation to the original Port Angeles population of "west enders."
Early arrivals who docked at Port Angeles stayed at the Central Hotel. Built in 1884 by Eben Gay Morse, it was located on the south side of Front Street between Laurel and Oak and was later known as the Globe Hotel.
The colony motto, "Let the many combine in cooperation as the few have done in corporation," was emphasized by its newspaper, the Model Commonwealth, the first newspaper published in Clallam County. The Model Commonwealth, which had begun publication in Seattle, was edited by Laura B Hall, a relative of Peter Good.
A sawmill shipped from Seattle soon was cutting 20,000 board feet a day. In the beginning, most of the lumber was used to construct colony buildings. The sawmill, located on the beach just west of the colony hotel, consisted of machinery and framework, never completely enclosed. At first, lumber came from trees on the site; later a logging camp was established and a tram road was construct to bring the logs down. Lumber was sold all the way to Seattle.
In the beginning, the colonists had only one skiff, which soon proved insufficient. There was a market for lumber, but the colony had difficulty arranging delivery. Members subscribed $4,200 for construction of a 60 ton steam schooner to be built in the colony shipyard, Christened Angeles, it was launched April 23, 1889. The Angeles traveled Puget Sound until the 1920's.
The colony, which constructed many buildings from the milled timber, in 1888 was awarded its first important outside contract to build a new school, Central, on the First Street site now occupied by the Post Office. In 1891, the colony completed the Opera House on Front Street, using $7,000 worth of lumber. It had the first plate glass windows, the highest flag pole and, later, the first flush toilet in Port Angeles. The Opera House was the center of community life for 30 years. Next door was the colony building, which had been constructed in 1889 at the corner of Front and Laurel, now the site of the SeaFirst Bank. this building served as the seat of city government for a few years.
In 1889, the colony built the First Congregational Church at First and Vine (now Carroll Realty) and later the Catholic Church at Second and Lincoln. The colony also built many homes for members.
The first months were hurry, hard work and poor living conditions. Promoters had oversold the idea; too many people came too soon. Within a year, internal problems began to surface. As business ventures quickly expanded, human nature conflicted with idealism and impractical ideals were abandoned for more realistic directions.
Colony affairs were managed by an 11-member board of trustees, headed by a president, who was allowed expenses and was exempt from labor. Each trustee oversaw an executive department, was required to do some labor, and received the same monthly wages as the "highest skilled mechanic." After the first election, trustees and the president were required to have lived one year at the colony site.
In 1888, when Smith went east seeking funds to construct a logging railroad, he and his associates were unseated by practical men who expanded colony enterprises into real estate and construction. The wage system changed; the ideal communal system sought by colony founders was no more.
Colony founders believed labor, not capital, should be the foundation of the economy. Each worker would do those tasks that he or she did best. Wages were based on outside costs and "quality," quantity and consumption of energy. Men were to work eight-hour days and women six-hour days, with equal pay for equal work.
Colony scrip was established as a means of exchange. The workers were paid with these promissory notes from the colony to be spent on merchandise at the company store. The system failed because the scrip was unacceptable outside the colony.
The colony had no established religion; it respected individual religious opinion. Colonists included Baptists, Methodists, Jews and Spiritualists, but no Catholics. Colony members founded many churches.
The Co-operative Colony's principles called for public education. The colony operated what is believed to be the first kindergarten in Washington, with 25 children taught by Miss Ione Tomlinson. The colony also conducted adult education classes.
Colony founders, in principle, held high moral standards: excesses were to be avoided; intoxication or sale of liquor could be cause for dismissal. Stories of "free love" were essentially untrue, although there were five or six divorces and remarriages.
The "west enders" and "east enders" began to merge; marriage, business, social and political issues brought them together. The colony's last full meeting was July 4, 1889; receivership followed sometime later. The first major communitarian experiment in Washington ended officially when its last assets were liquidated Dec 2, 1904.
The colony lived a short life and died a lingering death, but its strong, hard working people became the foundation of the City of Port Angeles and much of Clallam County.
* [ Which has since been torn down ]
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"An old ledger used to keep store accounts of the Puget Sound Cooperative
Colony and probably those of Robert Shields, who later operated the store,
shows names of many who were colonists, and others who came here a little
later."
| Adams
Albright Armburst Ayres Babcock Baker Bitterwolf Bohall Brandt Burns Chambers Chitwood Christopherson Church Clegg Cook Coolidge Cosser Coventon Culver Danz Derickson Dilling |
Eacrett
Edwards England Fend Fenn Ferguson Finch Fisher Forsberg Foss Goldwater Grant Gray Griswold Haines Hamilton Harlow Haynes Henson Howells Jacobs Jarvis Kelly |
Land
Lewis Liese Malony Martin Mason Mastick McConnachie McGeorge McGill McKay McLaughlin Meagher Merryfield Moore Nichols Nottage Pellerine Peters Phelps Pinyard Place Quinn |
Raymond
Reis Richter Ritchie Rushworth Russell Schieferstein Seevers Smith, J A Smith, N R Spears Stewart Thompson Town Voldo Wait Ware Westphal Williams Wood Yarnell Young |
[I have alphabetized the names but not changed the spelling as given in the paper]
See also Polk City Directory 1887
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Polk provides the following description of Port Angeles and incomplete list of residents for 1887. A full list was reportedly published in the Model Commonwealth in July 1887 but I have not located a copy of it. See also the list above of names appearing in the Colony Store Accounts.
Colony members are identifed by "P S Co-op Col."
"PORT ANGELES, a postoffice on the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Clallam County, 16 miles west of New Dungeness, the county seat, and 35 west of Port Townsend, the shipping and nearest banking point. Settled in 1859. Ships grain and produce. Population, now about 200, will be largely increased by the location here of the Puget Sound Cooperative Colony, founded by George Venable Smith. Mail semi-weekly. D W Morse, postmaster."
Anderson, G---P S Co-op Col.
Armbrust, Cyrus M---wagonmaker---P S Co-op Col.
Ashwell, W---P S Co-op Col.
Beck, W W---dept of manufactures---P S Co-op Col.
Bill, John---farmer
Bell, Wm---U S Signal Observer
Berry---asst lighthouse keeper
Bitterwolf, Bernhard B---brickmaker---P S Co-op Col.
Brumfield, Willard---observer U S Signal Service
Burke, Walter---farmer---P S Co-op Col.
Chambers, Frank---farmer---P S Co-op Col.
Christophersen, Edward---clk---P S Co-op Col.
Church, John F---surveyor---P S Co-op Col.
Church, Kendall---clk---D W Morse
Clark, J R---carpenter---P S Co-op Col.
Clegg, Wm M---tinner, P S Co-op Col.
Coville, Wilbur---farmer
Crawford, Lucius P---millman---P S Co-op Col.
Croake, J D---inspector of customs
Davis, J C---farmer
Davis, Thomas---restaurant---P S Co-op Col.
Dingman, Byron---laborer---P S Co-op Col.
Dodge, Warren R---logger
Dolan, Bernard---laborer---P S Co-op Col.
Draper, Miss---teacher
Dresser, Arthur W---shoemaker---P S Co-op Col.
Dumont, R K---carpenter---P S Co-op Col.
Dyke, John---blacksmith---P S Co-op Col.
Eacrett, Thomas---farmer
Evans---lighthouse keeper
Fisher, Elmer---P S Co-op Col.
Fisher, H---P S Co-op Col.
Fogarty, F G---farmer
Gallup, O W, carpenter---P S Co-op Col.
Gallup, P W---Dept of Public Safety---P S Co-op Col.
Gano, E H---millman---P S Co-op Col.
Gilmore, T G---P S Co-op Col.
Goodwin, Hartley---farmer---P S Co-op Col.
Goodwin, Mrs. Sarah---P S Co-op Col.
Goodwin, Silas---farmer---P S Co-op Col.
Gordon, Henry G C (Gordon & Gordon)---farmer
Gordon & Gordon (Henry G C and Mrs. Elizabeth W P)---grocers
Grant J M---Dept of Agriculture---P S Co-op Col.
Green, Wm H---P S Co-op Col.
Guptill, Capt---farmer
Hall, Mrs. Laura E---Dept of Education---P S Co-op Col.
Harlow, Henry---farmer
Haug, Paul R---stone cutter---P S Co-op Col.
Haynes, L T---brickmaker---P S Co-op Col.
Haynes, Raymond---tinner---P S Co-op Col.
Hinkley, Francis---Dept of Public Utility---P S Co-op Col.
Hoagh, Warren---tinner---P S Co-op Col.
Hoffman, A F---Dept of Commerce---P S Co-op Col.
Hulquist J---P S Co-op Col.
Hume, Thomas---logger
Hurd, James---newspaper correspondent
Jenkins---P S Co-op Col.
Johnson, G---P S Co-op Col.
Jones, Joseph---P S Co-op Col.
King---farmer---P S Co-op Col.
Kost, John J---carpenter---P S Co-op Col.
Land, Paul---iron molder---P S Co-op Col.
Lee, Alfred---farmer---P S Co-op Col.
Liese, F H---P S Co-op Col.
Looner, Alden---farmer
McCleese, Daniel---farmer
McConachie, Alexander---clerk---P S Co-op Col.
McGlynn, Owen---farmer---P S Co-op Col.
McGuire, Henry---farmer
McKinley, E D---Dept of Health---P S Co-op Col.
McLaughlin---millman---P S Co-op Col.
Maltby W W---carpenter---P S Co-op Col.
Martin, John---millwright---P S Co-op Col.
Mason, Alexander---bookkeeper---P S Co-op Col.
Mason, Horace---boilermaker---P S Co-op Col.
Mastick, E B jr---County Commissioner
Meagher, Bernard---farmer
Meagher, George---carpet-layer---P S Co-op Col.
Meagher, James---farmer
Meagher, Nicholas---farmer
Meagher, Philip---farmer
Morgan & Hastings, Proprietors Steamboat Line
Morse, Charles---carpenter---P S Co-op Col.
Morse, Davis W---general store and postmaster
Morse, E G---hotel
Morse, Samuel G---county sheriff
Patten, Frank B---millman---P S Co-op Col.
Pearson, Charles---barber---P S Co-op Col.
Peterson, Wm---roofer, P S Co-op Col.
Port Townsend, Dungeness Port Angeles & Neah Bay Route---Morgan
& Hastings, Props.
Puget Sound Cooperative Colony---Geo Venable Smith pres, A E Sanderson
sec. Mrs. Nellie Wood, treas.
Reynolds, Rufus K---shoemaker---P S Co-op Col.
Ribby, Thomas---farmer
Sanderson, Albert E---sec P S Co-op Col.
Shafer, John---tinsmith---P S Co-op Col.
Shipley, E A---merchant---P S Co-op Col.
Smith, B T---P S Co-op Col.
Smith, George Venable---pres P S Co-op Col.
Smith, Henry---blacksmith---P S Co-op Col.
Smith, L H---tinsmith---P S Co-op Col.
Spencer, John---farmer
Stewart A---P S Co-op Col.
Taylor, James---P S Co-op Col.
Taylor, W J---physician
The Model Commonwealth---organ of the P S Co-op Col.
Thomas, Adam---farmer
Tillman, Charles---farmer---P S Co-op Col.
Towns---printer---P S Co-op Col.
U S Signal Service Station---Wm Bell---observer
Vail, Eugene---printer---P S Co-op Col.
Vail, Herbert---P S Co-op Col.
Vail, Wm---painter
Wagner, John---farmer
Ware, Alfred---civil engineer---P S Co-op Col.
Waters, John---farmer
White, George---farmer
Williams, L---dept public works---P S Co-op Col.
Winters, George---farmer
Wood, Mrs. Nellie---treasurer---P S Co-op Col.
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| Name | Dates | Place |
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| Agnew ( Reeveton) | 1916 - 1918 | no information given |
| Beaver | 1905 - no data | no information given see also Beaver |
| Blyn | 1890's - unk | no information given |
| Carlsborg | 1916 - present | [ was on west side of Carlsborg Rd about 1/2 mi north of Highway 101 at Hooker Rd until the 1990's; new office is on east side at about the same distance ] |
| Cherburg (later Port Angeles) | 28 Feb 1861 - 6 Jun 1862 | Port Angeles |
| Clallam Bay | a 1909 - present | no information given see also Clallam Bay |
| DeFuca (previously McNeel) | 10 Oct 1894 - 1897 | East of Port Angeles |
| Dungeness | 9 Aug 1892 - [aft Nov 1953] | no information given see also Dungeness |
| Elwha (previously McDonald) | 18 Mar 1902 - 31 Oct 1928 | Herrick ranch on the west side of Elwaha River near Little River. |
| Exa (previously Forrest) | 16 Feb 1895 - 15 Dec 1905 | South of Carlsborg |
| Fairholm | 1 Oct 1891 - 15 May 1902 | West end of Lake Crescent see also Fairholm |
| Forks | Jan 1899 - no data | Succeeded Quilayute |
| Forrest (later Exa) | 27 Aug 1892 - 16 Feb 1895 | South of Carlsborg |
| Freshwater | 18 Jun 1916 - 11 Nov 1914 | no information given |
| Gettysburg | 1890's - 1920's | East of the mouth of the Lyre River |
| Joyce | 1914 - present | Succeeded Port Crescent; at the home of Alice Sutton until moved to the Joyce General Store |
| Kale | 5 May 1906 - 15 Apr 1907 | no information given |
| Lake Crescent (later Ovington) | 18 Jun 1913 - 16 Nov 1920 | no information given |
| LaPush | c 1903 - no data | no information given |
| McDonald (later Elwah) | 20 Jun 1892 - 18 Mar 1902 | East side of the Elwah River at the Little River. It was in a huge cedar treestump |
| McNeel (later DeFuca) | 27 Aug 1892 - 10 Oct 1894 | East of Port Angeles |
| Mora | c 1904 - c 1934 | Junction of the Dickey and Quillayute Rivers |
| Mt Pleasant | 8 May 1906 - 31 Jul 1911 | no information given |
| Myrtle | 15 Jul 1903 - 15 Jul 1913 | no information given |
| Neah Bay | c 1853 - present | no information given |
| New Dungeness (later Dungeness) | 19 Feb 1858 - Mar 1868
23 Dec 1869 - 9 May 1892 |
no information given |
| Ovington (previously Lake Crescent) | 16 Nov 1920 - 30 Mar 1942 | no information given |
| Ozette | 1890 - c 1913
1927 - no data |
Several locations on the north end of Lake Ozette, lastly on the Keller farm |
| Piedmont | 10 Jul 1894 - 28 Feb 1935 | no information given |
| Port Angeles (previously Cherburg) | 6 Jun 1862 - present | no information given |
| Port Crescent | 1890's - 1914 | replaced by Joyce |
| Port Williams | 16 Feb 1892 - 26 Aug 1896
later re-established but discontinued c 1918 |
Re-established north of original location with a landing on the Bugge Cannery dock. |
| Pysht | 15 Jan 1878 - 1 Apr 1899
20 Jun 1902 - 31 Aug 1905 16 Dec 1905 - 15 Mar 1944 |
no information given |
| Quilayute | 10 Oct 1895 - 1909 | Replaced by Forks |
| Ramapo | 1916 - 1918 | Near Joyce; only operated during the construction of theSpruce Division Railroad in World War I |
| Reeveton (Agnew) | 1916 - 1918 | no information given |
| Rena | 1901 - 31 Dec 1902 | On the Hooker homesead near Carlsborg |
| Royal | 1910 - 1927 | no information given |
| Sappho | Aug 1928 - no data | Originally in the Bloedell-Donovan Store, in the Rayonier Store in
Nov 1953
see also Sapho |
| Seguin (later Sequim) | 13 Aug 1878 - 21 Sep 1907 | no information given |
| Sekiu | 1890's under Clallam Bay | no information given |
| Selmscary | During WWI - close of WWI | Named for the contractors who built the Spruce Railroad |
| Sequim (previously Seguin) | 21 Sep 1907 - present | no information given |
| Sol Duc | 12 Dec 1911 - 31 Aug 1916 | no information given |
| Swan | 1880's - only a few years | on Swan Bay on Lake Ozette |
| Tatoosh | 1890's - 1945 | no information given |
| Twin | c 1916 - c 1926 | no information given |
| Vining | 20 Mar 1914 - 31 Oct 1914 | no information given |
| Wanomah | 10 Apr 1890 - 19 Jul 1894 | Probably at the home of Lucy and Stella Bradshaw near Eden Valley |
| Wineton | 29 Jun 1892 - 22Aug 1898 | no information given |
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BEAVER
The Heart of the Solduck Valley. Timber unsurpassed by any in the State. Quarter sections cruising twenty-eight million feet and section cruising over one hundred million feet. Two hundred acres fertile prairie land, quite a quantity of river bottom land easily cleared. Ideal fishing and hunting. Two lakes and rivers at our door. Post office, hotels, store and public school, RFD mail. The Lacy Timber Company's headquarters for the county are located here. BLUE MOUNTAIN
BLYN
Blyn is a small town at the head of Sequim bay, in the northeast corner of Clallam County.The bay is four miles long by one mile wide, bounded on the east, south and west by extensive farming and timber lands; and on the north by a long sand spit with a channel 1,000 feet wide and from 40 to 50 feet deep, sufficient to admit any size vessel. It is a perfect harbor in itself, having every natural advantage it is sure to come to the front and be one of the most distinguished points on the Sound.
A post office on Seguin [thus] Bay 25 miles SE of Port Angeles, the the county seat and banking point and 5.5 miles S of Port Williams, its nearest steamboat landing. Mail tri-weekly. J T Whitaker PM BOSTON
A post office at the mouth of the Bogachiel river near the Pacific Ocean 60 miles (air line) SW of Port Angeles. Mail tri-weekly. BUCYRUS
A post office on Dickey Creek and Lake Dickey in Clallam County 72 miles by water and stage W of Port Angeles, 17 miles SW of Clallam, its steamboat landing. Mail semi-weekly. L T Sands, PM CAPE FLATTERY
The extreme NW point in the county, on the Pacific Ocean. Tatoosh is the nearest post office. CLALLAM
Formerly Clallam Bay. A post office and steamboat landing on the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Clallam County 55 miles W of Port Angeles, the county seat and banking point. First settled in 1890. A large amount of timber is tributary to this place. Farming and stock rising is the principal industry. Mail steamer tri-weekly. Pop 35. Mrs F A Miller PM. CLALLAM BAY
Pop 100. A post office first settled in 1890 formerly called East Clallam, on Clallam River and bay. Straits of Fuca (18 miles from Cape Flattery" the shipping point, and 50 miles from Port Angeles, the banking town. Sustains a Methodist Church. Boat connections tri-weekly with Seattle. Alston Fairservice PM. CEDAR RIDGESee Van Kuren CRESCENT BAY
Changed to Port Crescent. DUNGENESS
Former seat of Clallam County and formerly called New Dungeness, it is situated at the mouth of the Dungeness River on the Strait of Juan de Fuca 18 miles # of Port Angeles, the county seat and banking point. 2 churches, Methodist and Episcopal, a hotel, 3 creameries, and 1 shingle mill. Shipments are grain, live stock and dairy products. Steamers with mail daily. Pop 150. W L Church, PM. EDEN VALLEY
Eden Valley is located just west of the Elwha River between Port Angeles and Port Crescent. It is pretty well settled and fertile land. There are a few thousand acres of logged-off land that would make fine farms. The land is well situated and as good as the best in the State. There are a number of shingle mills that give employment to men. The Sturdevant & Pellerin Shingle Company and The Clallam County Shingle Company work night and day and have a capacity of 80 thousand per day each. The Acme Shingle Company, a new firs, will soon be ready to work. The Eden Lumber and Shingle Company, a double block, has a capacity of 130 thousand shingles per day. This mill has a saw mill combined with the shingle mill, where you can get all kinds of rough lumber. EAST CLALLAM
A post office on the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the mouth of the Clallam river in Clallam County 53 miles by steamer W of Port Angeles, the county seat and banking point. Sustains a hotel and a weekly newspaper, the Clallam Bay Record. Mail tri-weekly. ELWHA
Pop 30. A Post office formerly called McDonald, on the Elwha river, first settled in 1889, 10 miles SW of Port Angeles, the county seat, banking, express, telegraph and shipping point. Dairying is the principal industry. H Coventon PM EXA
A post office on the Dungeness River 16 miles SE of Port Angeles and 10 SW of Port Williams, the nearest boat landing. Mail semi-weekly. FAIRHOLME
A post office on Lake Crescent, Clallam County 34 miles by water and stage SW of Port Angeles and 16 SW of Port Crescent. Mail tri-weekly. J H Jones, PM FORKS
A post office on the Clower [thus] river in Clallam County 60 miles SW of Port Angeles and 32 S of East Clallam, its nearest boat landing. Mail tri-weekly. FRESHWATER
A post office established 1914 and discontinued in 1915. Mail to Port Angeles. GETTYSBURG
A post office on the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Clallam County 24 miles W of Port Angeles. Port Crescent 5 miles E is nearest steamboat landing. Pop 50. Mail tri-weekly. Robert N Getty, PM JAMESTOWN
Fishing settlement 1.5 miles S of Dungeness, its shipping point and post office. JOYCE
Previously Port Crescent. KALESee Blue Mountain LAKE CRESCENT
Name changed to Ovington. Pop 24. A post office and summer resort formerly Lake Crescent. On the Lake Crescent and Port Angeles Western Ry 100 miles NW Seattle, 33 miles SW Port Angeles. Anna E Ovington PM LAKE OZETTE
Is about eight miles long, parallel with the Ocean, and about four miles wide, and in some places only one and a quarter miles from the Ocean, and has two islands in it --Tivoli Island near the south end, a beautiful island of about two acres, and Gordon Island near the east side of about seven acres. It is a very deep lake and in summer there is a cool breeze blowing across it from the Ocean which accounts for no sickness here. It this Lake was [thus] in King County it would have been a perfect beehive years ago. It is surrounded by some the finest timber in the State. Its outlets are Big River, Umbrella River and Crooked River, while the Ozette gives outlet to the Pacific. Soil ten feet deep cannot be beat. Gold mining on the Ocean beach has been going on for years with profit. There are good indications of coal. The Lake and all streams are full of trout, and game in the woods is plentiful. Owing to the outlet at Clallam being twenty two miles distant by trail, her beauties are not known even at home, but some day Lake Ozette will be the greatest health resort in the State. LA PUSH
A post office in Clallam County on the Pacific Ocean 70 miles SW of Port Angeles. Mail tri-weekly. LOST MOUNTAIN VALLEY
MC DONALD
Name change to Elwha MAKAH INDIAN RESERVATION
In the extreme NW part of Clallam County. Includes Cape Flattery at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and contains 25-30 square miles. Agency at Neah Bay on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. MORA
Pop 25. A village post office formerly known as Boston, on the Quillayute river, first settled in 1884, 55 miles (air line) SW of Port Angeles, the county seat and banking point, and 347 SW of East Clallam on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, its shipping point by water. It contains a Congregational church and general store. Stage to East Clallam tri-weekly. K O Erickson PM MOUNT PLEASANT
First settled in 1906. A country post office on Morse creek, 6.25 mils NW of Port Angeles, the shipping and banking point. Angeles Tel & Tel Co's service. Mail, semi-weekly. Laura Burns PM
Mount Pleasant is a district will adapted to dairying and general farming on account of the fertility of its soil. It is well irrigated from the mountains back of it, which is a positive assurance against drouth and which gives rise to an abundant growth of forage for pasture of cattle and hogs, both of which do well here. Diseases of cattle and hogs or other stock is unknown. The grazing season lasts from April first to November 30th and sometimes linger. The many springs of the purest of soft water all overt this community affords an abundance of water for butter, butter fat, beef, pork and other products is always at its zenith and past demonstrations have proved that dairying and hog raising is one of the most remunerative kinds of farming, if not the highest here. There are about twenty good farms in the distdrict and new settlers constantly coming in. MYRTLE
A post office 6 miles W of Port Angeles, its county seat, express, telegraph and shipping point. Mail, special supply NEAH BAY
The post office on the Indian Reservation in the extreme NW part of Clallam County 70 miles NW of Port Angeles on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a landing for steamers from Port Angeles and Port Townsend. Tri-weekly mail. NEW DUNGENESS
See Dungeness OZETTE
A discontinued post office in Clallam County 24 miles SW of Clallam to which place is sent mail. PIEDMONT
Pop 25. A post office and summer resort, settled in 1891, on Lake Crescent, 80 miles NW of Seattle, 25 W of Port Angeles, the county seat and banking point, and 6 S of Port Crescent, the boat landing for steamers from Seattle and Tacoma. Stage to Port Crescent and Port Angeles, fare $1. Mail, tri-weekly. John Skinner PM PORT CRESCENT
A post office and steamboat landing settled in 1884 on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Clallam County 18 miles W Port Angeles. Mail tri-weekly. Pop 275. C L Jennings PM PORT WILLIAMS
A post office on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Clallam County 58 miles NW Seattle, 15 miles W Port Townsend and 21 miles E of Port Angeles. 2 saw mills, the product of which and farm produce are shipped. Stage with mail to Seguin daily, to Blyn tri-weekly fair .25 to each. Hans J Bugge PM PYSHT
A discontinued post office on Strait of Juan de Fuca, Clallam County 35 miles W of Port Angeles. Mail to East Clallam. QUILLAYUTE
A country post office, settled in 1870, 1 mile from the river of the same name, 56 miles (air line) SW of Port Angeles, the county seat and banking point, and 40 S of East Clallam, its steamboat landing. It has a Congregational church. Mail, tri-weekly. Jesse S Maxfield PM QUILLAYUTE PRAIRIE
RAMAPO
A discontinued post office. Mail to Joyce. RENA
A country post office in Clallam County 15 miles SE of Port Angeles and 25 miles by steamer and stage SW of Port Townsend, its most convenient commercial point. Mail semi-weekly. ROYAL
A country post office on Big Creek in Clallam County 70 miles by steamer and stage W of Port Angeles and 15 miles SW of Clallam, its boat landing on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Mail tri-weekly. SAPHO / SAPPHO
The new townsite recently established in the Quillayute [Valley] A post office on Beaver Creek in Clallam County 70 miles by steamer and stage W of Port Angeles and 17 miles S of Clallam, its steamer landing. Mail tri-weekly. SEGUIN
A post office in Clallam County 20 miles SE of Port Angeles. Port Williams, 4 miles NE is the nearest landing for Seattle and Port Townsend steamers. Contains 2 churches, 4 saw mills, and a shingle mill. Pop 250. Mail daily. Edgar T Huff PM SEIMSCAREY
A discontinued post office. Mail to Beaver. SEKIU
Pop 40. A post office 45 miles W of Port Angeles, 125 miles NW Sequim. Stage to Port Angeles $6. Beaver $2, Mora $4.
Pop 25. Post office 55 miles W of Port Angeles. Stage 2 times daily to Port Angeles $3.75; Pysht $1.25; Clallam Bay $ .25 E V Clark PM. SEQUIM
Pop 400. A village 19 m SE of Port Angeles, the county seat and banking point. Port Williams, 3.5 miles NE, is the nearest landing for Seattle and Port Townsend steamers. Contains 2 churches (Methodist and Episcopal), saw mill and 3 shingle mills. Long distance telephone connections. Mail daily. Tel, Postal and WU. Jens S Bugge PM SHILLIBAH
A post office on Beaver creek, 65 miles by steamer and stage W of Port Angeles and 12 S of East Clallam its steamboat landings on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Mail tri-weekly. Kate E Weir PM SHUWAH
A post office on the Soleduck river in Clallam County 80 miles by steamer and stage SW of Port Angeles and 28 miles S of East Clallam, its steamboat landing. Mail tri-weekly; banking Port Angeles. SOLDUC
A summer resort at Solduc Hot Springs on the Solduc River 46 miles as traveled SW of Port Angeles, 31 SW to Joyce, its shipping point. Stage daily to Joyce and Port Angeles. Mail to Lake Crescent.
Mail to Ovington. SUEZ (SUYES)
A discontinued post office in the W part of the county SWAN
A post office on Ozette Lake, Clallam County near the Pacific Ocean 82 miles by steamer and stage W of Port Angeles and 28 miles SW Clallam. Mail semi-weekly. P A Petersen, PM. TATOOSH
A post office on an island in the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the extreme NW part of the state 80 miles NW Port Angeles. This is the location of a US light house and is sometimes called Cape Flattery Light Station. Mail semi-weekly. TEXAS VALLEYSee Lost Mountain Valley TWIN
A post office on the Strait of Juan de Fuca 30 miles NW of Port Angeles and 8 W of Gettysburg, its steamboat landing. Grain, fruit and farm produced are raised. Silver and copper have been found in the area. Mail semi-weekly. TYEE
A post office on the Solduck river, Clallam County, settled in 1883 76 miles by steamer and stage W of Port Angeles and 23 S of E Clallam, its steamboat landing. Mail tri-weekly. James E Higgins PM. VAN KUREN
WASHINGTON HARBOR
A steamer landing 1.3 miles SW Port Williams WEAVER
Situated about five miles east of Port Angeles, a piece of land about five miles in width and extending from the waters of Juan de Fuca to the Olympic Mountains on the south and containing about 20,000 acres and valuation of $57,725. This magnificent tract of land is covered with timber, some of a heavy growth but mostly small and easily cleared. There are about 500 acres of land under cultivation in this precinct while at least 15,000 more can be used for stock raising, dairying, general farming. WENOMAH
A discontinued post office on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, 5 miles NW of Port Angeles, the county seat and nearest post office. |
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| Belleview (part) | 2 |
| Blyn | 3 |
| Carlsborg | 4 |
| Clallam | 5 |
| Clallam Bay | 6 |
| De Fuca | 7 |
| Dungeness | 8 |
| Eden | 9 |
| Edgewood | 10 |
| Elwha (part) | 11 |
| Enright | 12 |
| Forks (part) | 13 |
| Freshwater | 14 |
| Geraghty | 15 |
| Happy Valley | 16 |
| Hoko Falls (part) | 17 |
| Joyce | 18 |
| LaPush Village | 20 |
| Lost Mountain | 19 |
| Makah Indian Reservation | 37 |
| Mora | 20 |
| Neah Bay (excluding Makah Reservation) | 21 |
| Ozette Indian Reservation | 17 |
| Piedmont (part) | 22 |
| Port Angeles Ward 1 | 23 |
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| Port Angeles Ward 2 | 24 |
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| Port Angeles Ward 3 | 25 |
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| Port Angeles Ward 4 | 26 |
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| Port Angeles Ward 5 | 27 |
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| Port Angeles Ward 6 | 28 |
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| Port Williams | 29 |
| Prairie | 30 |
| Pysht | 31 |
| Quillayute | 32 |
| Quillayute Indian Reservation | 20 |
| Sequim | 33 |
| Twin (may be included in ED 5-18) | 34 |
| Van Kuren | 35 |
| Weaver | 36 |
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