Do you know of a Pioneer Relic Cabin decaying or about to be destroyed? We’d love to hear about it if you do. Most will be gone from decay soon.
In 1827 Hudson’s Bay Co. Dr. McLoughlin ordered blades and gears for a sawmill, followed by many Puget Sound endeavors (Utsalady, Camano Island, the closest). NW residential construction quickly matched the large, beautiful houses on the East Coast, Vancouver’s Officers’ Row (Grant House 1850) attesting … especially in “towns” like Tacoma, Seattle, Snohomish, and Stanwood, all close by newly milled lumber sources. In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act giving 10% of US lands to those who would pay a small fee, improve and live-on (residency) their surveyed and claimed160 acres, giving rise to the creation of hand-hewn (not milled lumber) log cabins scattered about the County, many small and adze or axe-carved from Western Red-Cedar … some built without nails, some with planks like the Indigenous, all some distance from milled lumber and/or its cost.
Location Date
Shanahan Cabin Monroe Fair Grounds 1887
Woodshop Cabin Stanwood Fair Grounds 1882
Blacksmith Cabin Stanwood Fair Grounds 1868
Norse Cabin Pilchuck History Farm 1889
Swedish Cabin Pilchuck History Farm 1892
Danish Hauberg Pilchuck History Farm 1897 (above)
Pastor’s Cabin Pilchuck History Farm 1904
Scottish Cabin Pilchuck History Farm 1893
Gehl Cabin Jennings Park, Marysville 1884
Kikendall House Snohomish Pioneer Cemetery 1875
Ukrainian House Pilchuck History Farm (active) 1905
Irish Blacksmith’s Cabin Pilchuck History Farm (active) 1910
Fiddler’s Cabin Pilchuck History Farm perhaps 1906
but not including:
Monte Cristo (1st live mining town on west slopes of Cascades, buildings built with lumber imported from Everett via train, financed by the Rockefellers and other New Englanders).
To the State and the County Registry of Historic Places, small rural log structures are not of much interest – competing against larger and grander sawmill sourced city structures.
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=141229
https://www.marysvillehistory.org/?page_id=1234
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063699924125
http://www.skagitriverjournal.com/WA/Gen/PreState/Exploration1.html
https://snohomishcountywa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1673&ARC=2697
https://meyersign.com/2022/08/tales-of-the-magic-skagit-the-cabins-at-the-fair/
https://pnwadventuresisters.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/the-snohomish-pioneer-cemetery/
https://www.vintagecitymaps.com/product/grennan-cranneys-saw-mills-camano-island-wa/
https://www.heraldnet.com/life/a-long-hidden-cabin-emerges-from-the-mists-of-time-on-whidbey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Snohomish_County,_Washington
https://itsnewstoyou.me/2013/07/25/amazing-baby-shoes-under-the-mets-stairs/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=monte+cristo+washington&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image
Monte Cristo’s buildings lumber was most likely delivered by:
train
tractor trailers
automobile
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