mime-version: 1.0 content-location: file:///C:/ED819A71/WillapaHarborLine-TacomaSub21.htm content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable content-type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Willapa Harbor Line, Subdivision 21, Tacoma Division

Northern Pacific Railway, Tacoma Division

Willapa Harbor Line, Subdi= vision 21

Willapa Harbor Line consisted of Chehalis Junction, Littell, Adna, Milburn, Ceres, Meskill, Dryad, Dryad Junction, Doty, Pe Ell, McCormick= , Walville, Mullenix Spur,= Pluvius, Frances, Globe, Leba= m, Nallpee, Holcomb, Menlo, = Willapa, Raymond and South Bend, in 1949.

Chehalis Junction

Chehalis Junction was established here in 1892 when the Yakima and Pacific Coast Railroad Comp= any, The United Railroads of Washington branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company was constructed.  It is named Chehalis Junction on account of being near Chehalis (the Friendly City).  Lewis=   (T14N, R2W)  Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction

Littell

Littell was once a sawmill and shingle mill town.  The= town was named in 1903 by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in honor of Cur= tis R Littell, a sawmill operator.  The town is located just three miles southwest of Chehalis (the Friendly City) in west central Lewis County, between Chehalis Junction and Adna.  Note= s show that the post office serving Littell was estab= lished as Davis Prairie on May 10, 1858, became Claquato in September 1858 and was named Littell in Februa= ry 1903.  Lewis  (S3, T13N, R3W)  <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 3.4

Adna

Adna, six miles west of Chehalis (the Friendly City), was named w= hen a post office was established.  A pioneer named Browning suggested the = name Willoway for his wife's favorite quotation, "Wh= ere there's a will there's a way."  Postal authorities objected beca= use of there was too much resemblance to Willapa.&= nbsp; They accepted an alternative suggestion of Pomona, which was used for several years.  When The United Railroads of Washington built through here in 1892, the locating engineer, W C Marion, called the station Edna, in honor= of Mrs Edna Browning.  Postal authorities changed = the name to Adna, as there already was a post offi= ce called Edna in the state, but apparently not concerned about the resemblance.  Interestingly, Marion's wife's name was Adna.  Another thought is= that it was named in honor of General Adna Anderson= (July 25, 1827 - May 15, 1889), the Northern Pacific Railroad Company chief engineer.  Lewis  (S9, T13N, R3E)&nbs= p; Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction

Milburn

Milburn= came into existence in 1934 when the Chicago, = Milwaukee and St = Paul Railway Company abandoned their line and used the Northern Pacific Railroad Company jointly.  The abandoned line was taken over by the Chehalis Western Railroad Company on May 7, 1936.  The first part of the name Milburn is derived from the name Milwaukee, the latter part being used for the reason that it was euphonious and a good telegraphing word easy to telegraph.  AFE 282-36.  <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Lewis  Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 6.3 *str

Bunker

Bunker = is a settlement on the Chehalis River three miles west of Adna in northwest Lewis County.  It w= as named in 1913 by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in honor of John El= ijah Bunker who owned a land claim.  The spur was built from Milburn to se= rvice the Hill Logging Company, later the Bunker Creek Logging Company.  The settlement grew up around a large saw and shingle mill at the mouth of Bun= ker Creek.  A post office was established on June 25, 1890 near the Bunker home, was named Eagleton.  Mr. Bunker was postmaster.  The post office was discontinued on June 15, 1920. = The Bunker post office operated from May 29, 1913 to July 30, 1921.  When= the sawmill and shingle mill shut down, Bunker was abandoned.  Bunker Creek crosses the South Bend Branch, the Willapa Harbor Line near Mile Post 14.  Lewis  (S7, T13N, R3W)  <= st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction

Ceres

Ceres w= as named in 1892 by William C Albee, superintendent of = the South Bend Branch, the Willapa Harbor Line, of= the Northern Pacific Railroad Company or Edwin Harrison McHenry, chief survey engineer, when The United Railroads of Washington branch was built.  = This name, in Roman mythology, denotes the Goddess of Grains and Agriculture.&n= bsp; Evidently, Albee was quite impressed with the valley's fertile soil.  The town is located in the Chehalis River Valley, 11 miles west of Chehalis (the Friendly City) in west central Lewis County, between Milburn and Meskill.  Lewis  (S14, T13N, R4W)  = Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction, 10.1

Meskill Pit

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Meskill

Meskill was originally Donahue Spur.  The spur was named in 1902 by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in honor of W J, Francis and Thomas Donahue, from= whom a right-of-way was acquired.  Some years later the Northern Pacific Railroad Company renamed their station Meskill= in honor of D W Meskill, president of Meskill and McNaughton L= umber Company.  Later, the president of the Meskill and Columbia River Railway Company and then = the Meskill Lumber Company.  The town is loc= ated on the Chehalis River, 14 miles west of Chehalis (the Friendly City).  Meskill also served as one of the gravel pits for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.  The town is between Ceres and Dryad.  Lewis  (S10, T13N, R4W)  Meski= ll Pit Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 12.2 and Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 2= 1 WA Chehalis Junction 12.5

Dryad

Dryad (= Dryad Junction) was originally two miles south of the present location, and was called Salal.  Salah= was for the very abundant growths of salal bru= sh, some references show it as Sallal.  The town m= oved when the Leudinghaus Brothers (F W and G F Leudinghaus) of Chehalis (the Friendly City) built a sawmill at the present site.  It l= ies in the magnificent valley of the North Fork of the Chehalis River.  The town name applied in 1890 by the Yakima and Pacific Coast Railroad Company at the suggestion of William C Albee, superintendent of the South Bend Branch, the = Willapa Harbor Line, of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company or Edwin Harrison McHenry, chief survey engineer, is mythological.  It is for the wood nymph or dryad, "The Goddess o= f the Forest", who lived in oak trees.&n= bsp; Albee figured that the dryad might get used to livin= g in the fir trees in this region.  The recorded plat is dated June 15, 1892.  The ghost town is located 18 miles west of Chehalis (the Friendly City), between Meskill and Doty.  Lewis  (S1, T13N, R5W)&nbs= p; Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 16.3

Dryad Junction

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Doty

Doty wa= s a busy sawmill town on the Cheh= alis River, but has been inactive since the largest sawmill moved out in 1929.  The town was n= amed in honor of Chauncey Albert Doty, owner of the Doty and Stoddard Lumber Company, who built a logging railroad, sawmill and shingle mill here in the late 1890s.  The United Railroads of Washington accepted the name whe= n it built through her.  The town is located between Dryad and Pe Ell.  The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company of Washington Doty Bridge spanning the Chehalis River was added to the National Registry of Historic = Places in 1990.  Lewis  (S2, T13N, R5W) = ; Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 17.6

Pe Ell

Pe Ell was surveyed in 1890 and was named by John William Kendrick, chief enginee= r of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for the Yakima and Pacific Coast Railroad Company.  Pe Ell is on the Chehalis River two dozen miles south of Chehalis (the Friendly City) in southwest Lewis County on Pe Ell Prairie.  One version says the = name being after Pe Ell, the chief of the local tri= be of Indians.  Another is that the name is a distortion of the first name = of a one-eyed French half-breed Pierre Charles, who acquired a Donation Land Cl= aim in the 1850s south of Boisfort.  He used = to pasture horses on the prairie nearby.  Indians, unable to pronounce t= he name Pierre, called this pioneer Pe Ell, and the name became attached to the nearby prairie and community.  The real Indian name of this place is Tsachwasin.  Lewis  (S34, T13N, R5W)  = Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 22.3

McCormick

McCormi= ck was named in 1898 in honor of Henry McCormick, owner of the Henry McCormick Lu= mber Company.  The town is located 26 miles southwest of Chehalis (the Friendly City), on Rock Creek.  McCor= mick became postmaster on May 31, 1899 and the post office continued in operati= on until July 15, 1929.  The town was serviced by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and is between Pe Ell and Walville.  Lewis  (S5, T12N, R5W)  Tacoma<= /st1:PlaceName> Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 24.3

Walville

Walville is an abandoned sawmill town on Highway 6 at the Pacific / Lewis County border.  Prior to 1903, the name had been Rock Creek.  In 1899, = the Northern Pacific Railroad Company built a spur here to serve the Rock Creek Lumber Company.  Walville was a border town sawmill straddling the county line, 1902-1931.  So= me years it was counted in the Pacific County census and other years it was counted i= n Lewis County.  The mill was operated by Walworth and Neville Manufacturing Company, lumber mill and general merchandise.  The post office was established June 3, 1903, in the company store.  Postal officials combined the names of t= he store owners to produce the name of the town.  In the 1910s and 20s t= he mill employed over 100 men.  The town which grew up around the mill a= nd store had a separate population of Japanese mill-hands and their families.  "Jap Town" was north of the mill, "Dago Town" was south of the mill, "Cow Town" was west of the mill, and &quo= t;Big Bug Town" (where all the rich people lived) w= as on the Lewis County side of the mill.  Th= e mill burned to the ground in 1930, the post office closed February 29, 1936, an= d Walville disappeared thereafter.  The town was = between McCormick and Mullenix Spur.  Lewis/Pacif= ic  (S6, T12N, R5W)  <= st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 26.1

Mullenix Spur

Mullenix Spur was between Walville and The United Railr= oads of Washington station at Pluvius.  Pacific  Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction *str

Pluvius

Pluvius was chosen in 1892 by William C Albee, then su= perintendent and Edwin Harrison McHenry, an engineer of the South Bend Branch on the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for The United Railroads of Washington.&= nbsp; A railroad survey and construction crew camp was established near this summit.  They devised this name because of the extremely heavy rainfall.  It is an alteration of the Latin word Pluviosus or Jupiter Pluvius which has the significance = of heavy rains or precipitation.  The Romans used the name for Jupiter as "God of Rain, Wind and Dark Storm Clouds".  It rained incessantly during construction.  When the camp moved toward South Bend, so d= id the population.  Today, the sharp turn on Highway 6 is still called Pluvius Hill.  This place is the highest point = between Chehalis (the Friendly City) and South Bend and was between Mulleni= x Spur and Frances.  Pacific  (S3, T12N, R6W)  Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 28.9

Frances

Frances was named in 1892 The United Rail= roads of Washington, by Edwin Harrison McHenry, a Northern Pacific Railroad Comp= any chief survey engineer, after his wife's middle name.  He was also a l= ogger in the area and founded the town.  The North Western Lumber Company platted the town.  The town is located 14 miles southeast of Raymond, between Pluvius and Globe.  The Wallace C= ampbell family homesteaded Elk Prairie, south of the townsite= , in the early 1880s.  The plat of the town was recorded in February 1893.  Several Swiss / German families followed in 1886 and have been= a dominant group in the community for over 100 years.  Descendants hold= a variety of ethnic celebrations at the Swiss Picnic Grounds on Elk Prairie Road each year.  A post office was established May 26, 1894 and continued = in operation until November 23, 1973.  Pacific = (S2, T12N, R7W)  Tacoma<= /st1:PlaceName> Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 35.3

Globe

Globe w= as a lumber mill community that existed from 1901 to 1934, between Lebam and Frances in Pacific County.  The sawmill operation was owned and operated by Frank Gougar (or Cougar) in 1901.  It was purchased by W C Miles in 1902.  A = post office was established on April 19, 1904 when the name Globe was selected = and continued in operation until November 30, 1929.  The reason for this = name has been lost.  Oren Armstrong was postmaster from 1908 to 1928.  Armstrong also logged in the area under the name Armstrong and Leonard Log= ging Company from 1905 on.  He and Miles owned and operated the Globe Lumb= er Company from June 9, 1922 until February 14, 1934.  The town had been serviced by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and was still shown on i= ts station list in 1947.  Pacific  (S8, = T12N, R7W)  Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 36.7

Lebam

Lebam is a community on Half Moon Prairie, 11 miles southeast of Raymond in central= Pacific County.  The original name w= as Half Moon.  When a post office was established, postal officials objected = to the two-word name.  The railroad accepted the present name, offered b= y the town's founder, Joseph W Goodell, which was his daughter Mabel's name spelled backward.  The United Railroads of Washington station was established in 1892 when they acquired the right-of= -way from Goodell.  It is between Globe and Nallpee.  Pacific  (S4, T12N, R7W)  Tacoma<= /st1:PlaceName> Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 38.0

Nallpee

Nallpee is an abandoned Northern Pacific Railroad Company station on Highway 6. = Nallpee was located in August 1905 on the Northern P= acific Railroad Company track at a junction for a spur to the Kalb - Gilbert Lumb= er Company logging camp on Trap Creek.  Mill office workers suggested the names Hartwood, Podger, Nallpee and Darnrich.&nb= sp; Nallpee was chosen.  It is a combination of the initials "N P" (Northern Pacific Railroad Company) and "Albee" (William C Albee was a division superintendent).  The place was classed as a commercial sp= ur until about 1919 when a station was built.  A post office was establi= shed at the station August 15, 1918 and was discontinued June 30, 1934.  T= he town is between Lebam and Holcomb.  Pacif= ic  (S1, T12N, R8W)  <= st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 41.2

Holcomb

Holcomb= is a scattered community of farms and homes on Highway 6.  The former rail= road stop on the Yakima and Pacific Coast Railroad Company was named in 1891 in honor of Judge Geo= rge U Holcomb, who was general manager of the South Bend Land Company.  The= town is located southeast of Raymond, on the Willapa River, between Nallpee and Menlo.  A post office was established at Holcomb on May 1912 and discontinued April 30, 1943.  Pacific  (S36, T13N, R8W)  Tacoma<= /st1:PlaceName> Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 42.3

Menlo

Menlo w= as established in 1892 when the United Railroads of Washington built through = the Willapa Valley, southeast of Raymond, on the Willapa= River.  Aroun= d 1851, Captain Herman Croker had a claim on the Willapa= River near the fut= ure site of Menlo.  For several years after he left, the boat landing on = his property was called "Crocker's Landing".  The Bullard broth= ers (Job, Mark, and Seth) arrived around 1853 and filed Donation Land Claims i= n the vicinity.  In November 1855, members of the Keil= Colony arrived in the valley and filed Donation Land claims throughout the valley.  Van Marion Bullard (son of Job) and Jo= hn Brophy (of Menlo Park, California) subdivided their properties around 1893 into lots and blocks.  Both m= en anticipated the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company that had surveyed a grade near their properties and planned to establish a railroad station.  The railroad intended to call the station "Preston" in honor of Lindley Preston who live= d in a farmhouse near the tracks and distributed mail to neighbors.  The nam= e was rejected by the post office department because there was already a station using the name.  When the post office was established on September 5, 1894, the department decided on the name "Menlo".  The name= was taken from the sign John Brophy had erected to advertise his real estate development.  The sign originally read &quo= t;Menlo Park"= but had been moved around the valley so much only "Menlo" remained when = the post office adopted the name.  The community is in the heart of the <= span class=3DSpellE>Willapa Valley agricultural district and has been th= e home of the Pacific County Fair each August since 1938 (the first county fair w= as held in South Bend in 1896, the first community fair in Menlo was held in 1919).  It is between Holcomb and Willapa= .  Pacific  (S10, T13N, R8W)  Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 46.5

Willapa

Willapa was first applied to the Indians, then to the river on the banks of which they lived.  The true Indian name is Ah-whil-a= -pan, but was also written Whil-a-pah and Willopah.  The first name was Woodard's Landing= , for Samuel Lowell Woodard, the first settler, who arrived in 1852.  When postal service was established, the present name became official.  It= is for the Whilapah Indian tribe, now extinct.&nb= sp; Writing in 1853, James G Swan recorded: "The Indians of Shoalwater Bay had no distinct language of their own= , but used the Chinook or Chehalis promiscuously, with the exception of the trib= e on the Whilla-pah River, who spoke a language som= ewhat resembling the Cowlitz.  There are= two or three of the Whil-a-pah Indians still living a= t Shoalwater Bay, but the rest = of the tribe is all extinct."  (The Northwest Coast)  The town of Willapa was platted in 1883 and is three miles southeast of Raymond, between Menlo= and Raymond.  The United Railroads of Washington station was built in 1892.  Pacific  (S28, T14N, R8W) = ; Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction 50.5

East Raymond

East Ra= ymond is a rural residential area on the Willapa River between Raymond and the t= own of Willapa in Pacific County.  In early 1892 The United Railroads of Washington surveyed a route through = the area and bypassed Willapa and that community m= ore or less moved to the railroad line.  In 1912 the C= hicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company of = Washington surv= eyed for a route and Henry Nihart filed a subdivision w= hich he called East Raymond.  The post office was then moved from Willapa to East Raymond although it actually didn't = move, only the name was changed.  This post offi= ce closed in April of 1954. Pacific (S28, T14N, R8W) = ; Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Junction

Raymond

Raymond= is on the estuary of the Willapa= River, one mile east and south = of South Bend, between Willapa and South Bend. = The town was developed on lumber and shingle manufacturing.  Leslie V Raymond platted the town and was the first postmaster when the post office was established February 23, 1904.  The United Railroads of Washington st= ation was established in July 1893.  Pacific  (T14N, R8 and 9W)  Tacoma<= /st1:PlaceName> Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 53.1

South Bend

South Bend is three miles from the mouth of the Willapa = River into Willapa Harbor in north central Pacific County.  The town serves as = the terminus of the Willapa Harbor Line.  The= Willapa River makes a bend to the south in what is now= the city of South Bend, hence the name.  A sawmill was constructed here in 1869 by Valentine = and John Riddel, brothers, both from the state of = Maine.  Th= e post office was established in 1875 in the mill office.  John B Wood was t= he first postmaster.  Mail was brought in once a week from Oysterville.  The United Railroads of Washington station was established in August 1893.  This was the terminus of the South Bend Branch, the Willapa Harbor Line.&nb= sp; The South Bend Land Company boomed the town and it developed rapidly in the 1890s.  South Bend is now the county= seat of Pacific County and is known for its oyster industry.  Pacific  (Ss.27 and 28, T1= 4N, R9W)  Tacoma Willapa Harbor Line 21 WA Chehalis Juncti= on 56.5