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Archives spotlights logging history

Archives spotlights logging history

Not even Game 1 of the World Series could keep nearly 75 people from attending Thursday night’s logging history event at the State Archives in Olympia. The three-hour program, called “Logging in Washington: High Climbing and Tall Timber,” included a 1920s silent film on the old days of the Schafer Brothers Logging Company of Aberdeen. It also featured presentations by Schafer family member Peter Reid and two generations of Washington loggers, as well as a logging photo exhibit and a…

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Archives spotlights Washington’s logging history Oct. 27

Archives spotlights Washington’s logging history Oct. 27

Logging was one of the major industries that helped put Washington on the map and spurred our economy from its territorial days, into statehood and for many decades afterward. Many Washington communities, especially in the timber-laden western half of the state, owe their early existence to logging and related activities. As part of Washington Archives Month, the State Archives is hosting an event October 27 that looks back at logging in the 20th century. Called “Logging In Washington: High Climbing…

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