Locke, Wa 1900 - 1954 Traditional Cache
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Micro - please replace carefully. I did start it out with a FTF prize, and a trackable - but it fits better - with only the log book in it. Please bring your own writing utensil. Another place we drive by - without noticing. Stop and ponder.
LOCKE – THE COMMUNITY SIX MILES LONG Source: Ann Chaney, 1988 Taken from: ‘HISTORIC SITE GUIDE OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY’ edited and compiled by June Hobbs The Post Office at Locke was named for Dave Locke, who came to the Pend Oreille Valley in 1893 in the company of W. C. Cusick and settled near what was to become the community of Locke. The community of Locke extended approximately from the Larl-Risley homestead two miles south of the Locke Store and Post office (established in 1898), four miles north to Jared (now Riverview Bible Camp). A community six miles long. The store and post office bordered the highway, and the railroad had a depot at Locke, east across the tracks, with a resident agent housed there. A daily passenger train went through carrying passengers, mail and some freight downriver until the mid-thirties. The station sign “Locke” can be seen at the County Museum in Newport. “Upon entering the store, which was open from near the turn of the century until the early 1950’s, you walked across a dark, oiled-wood floor in a large, high-ceilinged room. There were counters on two sides, and near the back of the store was a tiny post office with small boxes into which the mail was sorted. Behind the counter on the right was the grocery area, where a hand-operated cash register sat at a convenient spot for the owner to ring up your purchases. Behind the counter on the left was a dry goods and general store section. This was a real country store where local people stopped and visited for a while, whether or not they were buying anything. The store was owned and operated by the Gilgers in the 1930’s and in the 1940’s by the McKays, and by the Bordwells in the early fifties.” Direct quote from the aforementioned book. Because there was a school (built in 1911) at Locke, which drew the students from the Tacoma Creek homesteads, it was only natural for Stuart B. Bradley, after graduating from the Tacoma Creek School, to head for Locke to attend high school. In 1923 Stuart (he was the only senior), wrote and edited the Locke High School yearbook BIG SMOKE-1923, from which some of this information is garnered. Stuart went on to be an illustrious attorney and historian. With many thanks to the staff at the Cutter Museum and the Metalines Community Library in Metaline Falls for their help in discovering this tidbit of information! If you have other historical information on this town - please share! Happy Hunting!
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