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Former communities, mill towns, and rail stations in Lewis County, Washington are composed of once existing neighborhoods, railroad stops, and company towns, especially for mining or timber production.

Former communities

Agate

Ainslie

Ajlune

Algernon

Alta Vista

Banyan

Baugh

Bramley

Bremer

Brim

Buckeye

Bunker

Burnt Ridge

Burnt Ridge was a small community approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Onalaska. [1] [2]

History

Telephone lines were connected to the community at a local store in 1909. [3] [4] The town had a dance hall under the Burnt Ridge Community Club [5] and another hall for the Burnt Ridge American Legion. [6] A church known as the Full Gospel Church burned down in 1935. [7] The area became known, starting in the late-20th century, for a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) privately owned parcel with a large horse trail system that would sometimes be open to the public. An annual event known as "Fun Ride" took place and riders traversed over a 12-mile (19 km) loop trail. [8] [9]

Education

The Burnt Ridge school began in a log cabin structure, built out of one tree, [10] in the late 1880s. [11] It was replaced with a new building in 1905. [12] The school was the sight of a disagreement that escalated to the county attorney general and a judge when a dance, deemed by some residents to be inappropriate, was held in the building during the Christmas season in 1913. [13] The enrollment of Burnt Ridge District No. 40 was never large, with 11 students counted in 1914. [14] That same year, the school adopted a "home credit" system which included credits for such tasks as cleaning one's teeth, feeding livestock, going to bed at a certain time, making or preparing food, or completing other various household chores. [15]

A new two-room schoolhouse, made of hollow tile and containing a bell, was built in the 1920s. [12] [16] The students were visited by Governor Roland H. Hartley in 1929 [17] and the schoolhouse underwent extensive renovations, including plumbing and the repair of the veranda, in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). [2] Due to a consolidation of the district with Onalaska, the school ceased being used in 1945. The school building was sold in September 1962 after earlier attempts were hindered for legal reasons, and the grounds, listed at 2.65 acres (1.07 ha), were put up for auction a month later; the land sale was completed for $75. [11] [12]

Carlson

Cispus

Clay

Cowlitz

Also known as Cowlitz Corner, it was connected to Winlock by a paved road, Washington State Route 505, in 1921. [18]

Crego

Eadonia

Eagleton

Fayette

Ferry

Fulton

The Fulton post office was located in the home of the namesake of the town, the Fulton family. The office, which was also the site of the local ferry crossing, was destroyed during a flood of the Cowlitz River in 1891 but rebuilt near Rainey Creek. The post office was moved to Kosmos. [19]

Glenavon

Gleneden

Grand Prairie

Greenwood

Near Wildwood

Guerrier

Hopewell

Hurn

Klaus

Klaus, Washington 2024

Former community located at Washington State Route 508 and Jackson Highway.

Knab

Also known as Layton's Prairie.

Knox

Lacamas

Ladd

Ladew

Lake Creek

Near Bositfort

Lindbergh

Lone Trail

Lost Valley

A neighborhood west of Bositfort. [20]

Meadow Brook

Menefee

Montgreen

Murnen

Old Salkum

Osborn

Also known as Osburn. Post office discontinued in April 1896. [21]

Oxley

Phillips

Rankin

Reynolds

Riley

Rhine

Roosevelt

Salal

Sharon

Shoestring

Siler

Silver Brook

Skookumchuck

Spruce

Staverbrook

Sterling

Stillwater

Tildon

Vance

Veness

Verndale

Wabash

Webster

Windom

Woodland

Company towns or settlements

Camp McDonald

Murnan

Rail stations

Blakeslee Junction

Millburn

Nulls Crossing

Ruth, Washington

Ruth, also known as Ruth Station, was a loading station on the Milwaukee line of the Northern Pacific Railway that ran parallel to the Ocean Beach Highway between Chehalis and South Bend, Washington. Timber from nearby sawmills and logging communities would be shipped from Ruth to Pacific coast ports or to the Puget Sound region. [22] [23] [24] The rail station no longer exists. [25]

Ruth, Washington
Ruth is located in Washington (state)
Ruth
Ruth
Ruth is located in the United States
Ruth
Ruth
Coordinates: 46°36′28″N 123°07′11″W / 46.60766535060344°N 123.1198140174591°W / 46.60766535060344; -123.1198140174591
CountryUnited States
State Washington
County Lewis
Elevation
276 ft (84 m)
Time zone UTC-8 ( Pacific (PST))
 • Summer ( DST) UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code
98532
Area code 360
GNIS feature ID1511281 [26]


Ruth, Washington (also known as Ruth Station, Washington) is an extinct town and was a loading station on the Milwaukee line [27] of the Northern Pacific Railway that ran parallel to the Ocean Beach Highway. It was 10 miles west ot Chehalis in west central Lewis County at an elevation of 264 feet on the Chehalis River. [28] Timber from nearby sawmills and logging communities would be shipped from Ruth to Pacific coast ports or to the Puget Sound region. [29] [30]

Ruth, and surrounding communities, saw infrastructure improvements in the mid-1920s and in the 1930s. A steel bridge on the highway, with new pavement, was competed in 1926 [31] [32] and a new spur, using old railroad ties, were added in 1930. [33] Weyerhauser planned a new rail line connecting the timber areas near Ryderwood to Ruth in 1935. [34] The following year, the tracks at Ruth were sold to Chehalis Western Railroad. [35]

A swim party in the Chehalis River with fatalities was reported as happening near Ruth in 1930. [36]

The rail station no longer exists. [37]

Sources

  • "Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids". digicoll.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved July 14, 2023.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Burnt Ridge
  2. ^ a b "More WPA Work Being Planned For Lewis County". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. February 19, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  3. ^ "Salkum". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. February 19, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  4. ^ "Benefit For The Library". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. September 17, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  5. ^ "Suburban News". The Centralia Daily Chronicle. October 17, 1946. p. 4. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  6. ^ Duprey, Maxine (November 19, 1951). "Onalaska". The Daily Chronicle. p. 8. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  7. ^ "High School Commencement". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. June 14, 1935. p. 3. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  8. ^ "Horsemen Fun Ride". The Chronicle. June 10, 1994. p. A8. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  9. ^ Decker, Sharyn L. (May 15, 2006). "Trail ride attracts more than 100 horses, riders". The Chronicle. p. A3. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  10. ^ "Hard Work Said Key to Long Life". The Daily Chronicle. July 11, 1961. p. 4. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Burnt Ridge Site Sold". The Daily Chronicle. October 9, 1962. p. 4. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  12. ^ a b c "Old School Bell Sought". The Daily Chronicle. March 14, 1962. p. 1. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  13. ^ "Dance Leads To Much Trouble". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. January 16, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  14. ^ "The Report for Burnt Ridge School, District No. 40". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. January 20, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  15. ^ "More Home Work Credits". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. March 13, 1914. p. 3. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  16. ^ "Mossyrock Board Sets Second Try At Selling Old Burnt Ridge School". The Daily Chronicle. September 7, 1962. p. 5. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  17. ^ "Governor At Burnt Ridge". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. November 1, 1929. p. 8. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  18. ^ Roland, Mitchell (June 12, 2024). "Winlock Egg Days Festival gets cracking Friday through Sunday". The Chronicle.
  19. ^ "PO at Fulton Washed Away". The Daily Chronicle. June 6, 1953. p. 10D. Retrieved July 16, 2024.
  20. ^ "A Sad Accident". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. October 24, 1902. p. 17. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  21. ^ "Washington Postoffices". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. April 27, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  22. ^ "Wildwood Notes". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. Vol. 34, no. 50. May 18, 1917. p. 6. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
  23. ^ "State Bridge To Replace Wye". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. Vol. 43, no. 1. June 5, 1925. p. 15. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
  24. ^ "Plenty of Sawmills". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. Vol. 40, no. 50. May 18, 1923. p. 16. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
  25. ^ Nicholls, Julia (January 14, 2006). "Exhibit tracks rail history". The Daily Chronicle. p. D5. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
  26. ^ "Ruth". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  27. ^ "H.A. Wilson Starts Logging At Wildwood". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. April 11, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  28. ^ Landes, Henry (1919). Bulletin 17. A Geographic Dictionary of Washington (PDF). Frank M. Lamborn ~ Public Printer, Olympia, Washington. p. 264.
  29. ^ "Wildwood Notes". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. Vol. 34, no. 50. May 18, 1917. p. 6. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
  30. ^ "Plenty of Sawmills". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. Vol. 40, no. 50. May 18, 1923. p. 16. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
  31. ^ "Onalaska Road Bid Is Called". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. April 2, 1926. p. 1. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  32. ^ "Onalaska Job Is Let Friday". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. April 30, 1926. p. 1. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  33. ^ "Milwaukee Ships Several Cars Of Ties This Week". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. December 19, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  34. ^ "Weyerhauser Is Planning Railroad, Says Rumor". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. October 11, 1935. p. 3. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  35. ^ "New Railroad Is Incorporated By Tacoma Interests". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. March 6, 1936. p. 1. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  36. ^ "Double Drowning Near Ruth Tuesday Evening". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. August 8, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  37. ^ Nicholls, Julia (January 14, 2006). "Exhibit tracks rail history". The Daily Chronicle. p. D5. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
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