The first mill on Big Lake was established in 1898. In 1900 Joseph Day bought the mill and began the Day Lumber Company. The town of Big Lake was owned by the company and had a train depot, hotel, company store, post office, hospital, boarding house, town hall, church, school and even it’s own baseball team. The Day Lumber Company even had its own money called tin money that was used to pay workers and make purchases at the company store. The town of Big Lake was destroyed by two fires, the first one in 1923 and the second one was in 1925. The mill continued to operate until 1927. Today you will still see remnants of the old mill and the property here where the park is was once stood a boarding house. While Big Lake is no longer the bustling town it was in the early 1900s we are still a close community. Towns like Big Lake shaped Skagit County the way it is today.
Cache is placed with owner permission.