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asahel 1906

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mon cri 12 lodge

non cri 54 1902 excursion

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ca. 1920 Monte Cristo viewed from the Sauk River

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2010-06-26. Red cabin visible is ca. 1950

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1895 View from the concentrator switchback railroad line.

Concentrator at left center partially obscured by smudge or smoke.

Water tower at right of center, and possibly the railroad shed to the right of it.

Large rock visible at left of center, rail line goes behind it.

Dumas Street goes up the hill to the right of concentrator.

http://www.skagitriverjournal.com/SCounty/Shows/Meetings2.html

Lumbermill (later railroad depot) is to left of boxcar.

http://www.stumpranchonline.com/skagitjournal/Washington/Snohomish/Monte/MonteCristo2-IntroPics.html

from Everett and Monte Cristo Railway, by Phil Woodhouse, Daryl Jacobson and Bill Petersen

1893 or 1894. View of rail cars and Dumas Street. Note the people walking in the street, on the trail line.

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1895 from left: Concentrator, Dumas Street, big rock in foreground, locomotive engine, water tower, rail shed (?). View is to right (south) of Wilman's Peak.

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(no date) Big rock, concentrator office (?), Concentrator. View is to left (north) of Wilman's Peak (up Glacier Creek?)

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1912 Monte Cristo townsite, Boston American cookhouse. Cookhouse is right of center, behind telegraph poles, with upper-story windows over a wide shallow roof.

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1930s Boston American cookhouse is in the foreground, Riddle house and Monte Cristo Inn in the background. On verso of image: Monte Cristo. Lodge, Royal Hotel, Addison House, 1930's

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1960 Parking lot at Monte Cristo. After World War 2, the railroad yard was paved. Red cabins were built, and the Boston-American cookhouse became the Monte Cristo Lodge (visible, right of center).

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1964 Lodge and cabin area

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2010-06-26 Modern view of the Railyard, Parking Lot, field, cabins. Boston-American Cookhouse (later Monte Cristo Lodge) would have been behind the people reading the sign at left of center.

2011 Foundation of the Boston-American cookhouse. Burned in 1983 (when it was the Monte Cristo Lodge)

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(no date) Looking north. Central building is lumbermill, which later became the railroad depot (or, perhaps was the depot at the time of this picture, since the rail line is here.) Water tower, two passenger cars and perhaps the locomotive (to right of lumbermill) are also visible.

2011-07-09