This cache is hidden in a neat little space between the Snoqualmie City Hall and the Old Snoqualmie Library. This library was founded in 1946 but jumped between a few locations. It stayed the official Snoqualmie Library until 2007 when the new one in Snoqualmie Ridge was constructed. From there, it was used as the Interim (temporary) Youth Activity Center (the iYAC) for Scouts BSA, Girl Scouts, a Venturing Crew, and more. The Snoqualmie Valley Youth Activity Center was built on 1450 Boalch Avenue in North Bend and is currently used for youth in the area to hold meetings and outdoor events! As no one is meeting here anymore, this building will be rebuilt and repurposed. In front of the building are a decorative little stream, plants, benches, rock formations, and a bridge.
The iYAC used to be the meeting place for my Scouts BSA Troop (Troop #115) but due to financial and management conflicts, we had to split off from our chartered organization and start a new troop. Troop 115 was amazing - we did tons of events such as going to summer camps every year, snowshoe hiking in Snoqualmie Pass, camping with the Cub Scouts, doing community service and fundraisers, and overall having fun with each other! We are now Troop 1776, in honor of our ‘revolution’ from the old chartered organization.
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Snoqualmie Library, King County Library System
The first library to serve the City of Snoqualmie and the nearby mill town of Snoqualmie Falls across the Snoqualmie River was opened in the 1920s by the Snoqualmie Falls Women's Club. In 1946, KCLS opened the first Snoqualmie Library in the city of Snoqualmie. The Snoqualmie Falls Library lasted into the 1970s, while the Snoqualmie Library, located on Snoqualmie Ridge since 2007, continues to serve the city of Snoqualmie and the surrounding area.
The City of Snoqualmie on the Snoqualmie River in the Cascade foothills of eastern King County traces its origins back to early pioneers in 1858. The adjoining mill town of Snoqualmie Falls across the river was created in June 1916 with the coming of the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company. In addition to housing for mill workers and their families, other amenities, including the first Community Hall, were constructed by 1918.
The first library in the area, which served the communities of both Snoqualmie and Snoqualmie Falls, was started in the 1920s by the Snoqualmie Falls Women's Club. By 1924 it was located in the second Community Hall built in Snoqualmie Falls. The library occupied a single large room and had its own book collection, with 209 books in the first year. In 1930, a fire destroyed the Community Hall building housing the library, but it was rebuilt and served for another four decades. Children were prominent among the patrons who borrowed books from the YMCA-hosted library.
On February 1, 1944, KCLS, which had been created little more than a year earlier as the King County Rural Library District, contracted with Snoqualmie Falls to provide support for this library. In the 1960s, the Snoqualmie Falls Library served the Snoqualmie Falls Grade School across the street from the Community Hall. The Snoqualmie Falls Library continued its operations with support from KCLS until the building was finally closed in 1971. After the decline of logging by local mill companies, many residents moved out of the town of Snoqualmie Falls, and many buildings were intentionally burned and destroyed.
Shortly after KCLS had begun supporting the Snoqualmie Falls Library, it also established another library in the older and more enduring city of Snoqualmie. In January 1946, Roy Anderson and S. M. McCowan from the local Commercial Club urged the Snoqualmie city council to contract for a KCLS library in that city. The proposal was approved by the mayor and the council members that March. On May 4, 1946, the Snoqualmie Library opened in the town hall building fronting Railroad Avenue downtown. It had an initial collection of 1,414 books and in the first year registered 253 borrowers. Snoqualmie's first librarian, Margaret "Nellie" Nein, recalled that the new library had a steep set of stairs to reach the mezzanine level where the books were stored. The stair banister, in particular, was tempting for young visitors: "I knew I couldn't keep the children from sliding down that banister, but I did make a rule that once a day was the limit!". In its decade of operation in the old town hall building, the Snoqualmie Library served 114,299 patrons, including 49,596 children.
In 1956, the Snoqualmie Library opened a location in a different building, shared with the new town hall and fire station (at the corner of Northwest 1st Street and 5th Avenue Northwest). This was due to a group of citizens creating a movement called the Snoqualmie Community Development Program to provide the city with a much-needed facelift. The Snoqualmie Library remained in the new town hall building for two decades, but the building had only a single room of book collections open to the public. County and city voters passed bonds to fund the construction of a new building, with an additional $8,000 donation from the Weyerhaeuser Company County.
On June 8, 1975, the Snoqualmie Library opened the doors at this building, its third location. The building is located here, at 218 River Street, and had space for 10,000 books in the stacks with another 1,000,000 volumes available through the KCLS interlibrary loan system. The new library featured a Children's Corner with books intended for young audiences; booklists for adults, teens and children; a reference service in the library and by phone; and magazines, records, and films in addition to books and research materials. The next 15 years of operations at the Snoqualmie Library continued to be successful, in spite of being prone to occasional flooding from the nearby Snoqualmie River.
In 2004, King County voters again approved a library bond measure, this time a $172 million capital bond to build new libraries, to replace many existing ones, and to renovate many more. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on December 8, 2005, at the site of the library's new home on Snoqualmie Ridge, where a major new development was then being constructed in several phases above the historic downtown, significantly enlarging and transforming the city. This new location represented a major change for the Snoqualmie Library, which had been located downtown for its entire six decades of existence. It also signified how Downtown Snoqualmie's people, businesses, and public institutions had been moving to Snoqualmie Ridge, despite retaining the city's tourist attractions and history. The new library increased book circulation by 171 percent and introduced a multipurpose room, private study rooms, computer stations, and an art display, in addition to shelves of books, DVDs and CDs, and magazines. In 2013, visitors checked out 195,666 items from the library's collections.
History from https://www.historylink.org/File/20234