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Dawson Map 1897-1900. Click on map to see a larger version that shows the river and streams that were home to thousands over three years in the country's last major gold rush |
Grandfather helped Albert run the [survey] lines. It was virgin forest and they were walking on a large tree felled during a storm, which was about ten feet off the ground. When they came to the place to jump off, Uncle Albert jumped feet first through the thick huckleberry brush and lit on a sleeping cougar. The cougar jumped, throwing Albert. Grandfather used to tease him, saying he thought that the cougar was running not quite as fast as Albert was, but in the opposite direction.Harry Duncan recalls family memories of Lenore moving out to Sedro in 1892 to join Harry in Sedro following Agnes's birth. They came to Seattle by train, then took an overnight boat to Whatcom and caught the Fairhaven & Southern train from Fairhaven to Sedro. Sometime after that, Harry began construction of their home at the southeast corner of Warner and Fourth streets. That is the home that longtime Sedro-Woolley resident Mark Chatt has fully restored in 2004. It rose across the alley from C.E. Bingham's cottage and would be joined within a few years by a three-story home to the west across Fourth street, that of his friend Ben Vanderveer, who spent years in the Klondike as did Harry and Albert. When new-Sedro incorporated in March 1891, Devin was appointed town clerk. In September 1892 he took over as postmaster of Sedro from Mayor George Hopp and kept that office until it was consolidated with the post office at Sedro-Woolley in July 1899. He held both offices continually except for a period of a year or two when he was prospecting in Alaska.
The Devin House, Warner at 4th in Sedro in 1976. It was built in the mid-1890s and lovingly restored in 2003-04 by Mark Chatt and family |
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This photo was taken sometime after the turn of the century inside the office of the Sedro Land Company in Woolley. Most of the lots in our town and much of the acreage in the upriver area were bought and sold in this location. There is some confusion about the identity of the principals of the company. In a Courier-Times of 1953, they were identified as (from l to r): H.L. Devin, J.B. Alexander (standing), C.J. Wicker. But the gentleman on the right closely resembles Harry Devin and we think the caption confused Wicker with Devin. We hope that a Wicker or Devin family member can clear this up for us. Please email if you know. Thank you. |
This is a photo of the east side of the 800 block of Metcalf in September 1909. The little white house at the left was originally an office of the Skagit Realty and is now part of a house on the 800 Block of Reed street. To the immediate right is the office of Skagit Realty when the photo was taken. Further to the right is the Livermore Harness Company, which would soon become Livermore Ford Agency. Len Livermore tore down the Skagit Realty office and the house was moved when he erected his new auto building in 1915. That new building is now Oliver Hammer Clothes Shop (you can see a photo of Livermore's garage on the Oliver Hammer Clothes Shop webpage). |
Grandmother said she approved of the style and reached down and raised the hem of her skirt from ankle-length to knee level and stated that, for an old gal [age 78], she thought her legs were pretty good. There was a quick intake of breath on the part of the two uncles. Both of them stood up and departed without saying a word. Grandfather just kept on reading and the girls kept on darning. The next morning, grandfather took us out for a trip up Chuckanut drive. He and I climbed up to a shale cut near by the road and he showed me the fossils in the rocks he was fond of. We did not disturb anything.The last day before Duncan left, his 80-year-old grandfather got his last chance to bond by sharing a hunting experience. His good friend Otto Pressentin phoned and said that he had a bear raiding his plum trees. Did Harry want to come up and shoot it? Devin leaped at the chance. They dressed warmly and motored up on the recently paved highway along the north shore of the Skagit to the old village of Birdsview, which then consisted of a few mainly deserted buildings. A little east of town, they stopped at Pressentin's Landing, where a ferry crossed to the old Pressentin homestead, which was still home to Otto, his brother Hans von Pressentin, and his mother, the widow Minnie von Pressentin:
We crossed the river on a current-powered ferry. There was a cable across the river about 30 feet above the water, hung between two trees. There was a small skyhook-car on the cable, with two lines descending, one to each end of the ferry. Each was secured to a wince so that you could change the angle of the ferry and the current would then take it across.
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