Bryant Lake Traditional Cache
strapt4cache: Container has been muggled and the blackberries are a big hassle.
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The cache is a camo airborne container along the Centennial Trail. Parking is available at the Bryant Trailhead.
One can see Bryant Lake to the southeast of the cache site. It is only a couple hundred feet away. On a clear day Mt. Pilchuck and Mt. Three Fingers are visible as well. Bryant was a logging community in the beginning and one hundred years ago the J. V. Larson Shingle Mill stood near this location. When Samuel Ehrdahl arrived in this area on foot in 1885 to claim a homestead at the north end of the lake, there were only five other white settlers in what was then a wilderness. Just six years later in 1891 the Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad laid tracks where the Centennial Trail now exists and built a depot northwest of the lake. From then on the community became accessible. The station was named after John H. Bryant, one of the railroad executives. The S.L.S.&E.R owners were Thomas Burke and Daniel Gilman. If the names ring a bell, they should. They are famous for more than just the names of two parallel streets in Arlington. The bike trail along the shores of Lake Washington established on the S.L.S.&E.R. right of way in Seattle is called the Burke – Gilman Trail. Hopefully, cyclists of tomorrow can ride from Bryant to Ballard on paved trails. Meanwhile back in Bryant, locals Charles Verd and Thomas Sanders set up a shake mill near the train depot in 1892 and a post office was established the following year. The makings of an unincorporated town were underway. In about 1905 the Stimson Mill Company bought out Verd and Sanders establishing Bryant as a rail hub for its logging operations east of town and north of the Grandview Road. When Stimson ceased operation in the area the little community did not die out but maintained its own identity and has a population today that is roughly the same as it was in 1910.
Source material: Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society Library. 135 N. Olympic, Arlington. Bryant binder, WA-SNOHO-ARLI-025.
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