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Skagit River Journal

of History & Folklore
600 of 700 total Free Home Page Stories & Photos
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The most in-depth, comprehensive site about the Skagit
Covers from British Columbia to Puget Sound. Counties covered: Skagit, Whatcom, Island, San Juan, Snohomish & BC. An evolving history dedicated to committing random acts of historical kindness
Noel V. Bourasaw, editor (bullet) 810 Central Ave., Sedro-Woolley, Washington, 98284
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So They Called the Town "Concrete,"
By Charles Dwelley, 1980, reprinted

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The cover of the original Dwelley Concrete Book.
      A new reprinting of Charles M. "Chuck" Dwelley's fine book, So They Called the Town "Concrete," is now available from the Concrete Heritage Museum. Originally printed in 1980, the book is crammed with photos and anecdotes that date way back to the 1870s when Amasa Peg-Leg Everett and Frank Hamilton and other hearty pioneers settled the area thirty years before the cement companies gave the town its name. Everett did more than most two-legged folks, including discovering the limestone for cement. Dwelley took over the dying Concrete Herald in 1929, the year of the great stock market crash, and stayed at its helm for four decades.
See the extensive section on Charles M. "Chuck" Dwelley, which was created by Larry and Josef Kunzler as part of their program in August 2006 to honor Dwelley by installing a plaque on the Dalles Bridge, one of Dwelley's most important projects.
      You can buy the book at the Upriver Services Center on Main street on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday — phone 360 853-7009; or at Annie's Pizza Station on Hwy 20. You'll want to go to Annie's anyway, for the heavenly calzones any day but Monday. Or you can order the book for $15.00 plus $3.75 shipping by mailing a check to: Concrete Heritage Museum Association, Attn: SRJ-Dwelley, PO Box 571, Concrete, WA 98237. You can also see options for ordering the book at the Museum website. This is a book you will want for general upriver history. And see the links below for the Dwelleys.

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The Van Horn Hotel, photo from the Dwelley book

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