Snoqualmie Valley Museum

Ten years ago Lucille Bonifas Smith was kind enough to answer some questions about her life in 1940 for Assistant Director Cristy Lake during a dinner visit to the Eagles in Snoqualmie when the Museum…

Fifteen Mile Crossing was the first fording over the Snoqualmie River after leaving North Bend going over Snoqualmie Pass. It is located about 15 miles east of North Bend. James Beard became one of the…

By Dave Battey Have you ever had a vision, a hope, or a plan, that you felt was important to your community?  One dream that has come to fruition after many years of work by…

Originally written by Dave Battey for the Valley Reporter Newspaper in 1992, updated in 2021. The building that Buckshot Honey now occupies is unique in that it was the first and one of the few…

The field between Two Rivers and North Bend Elementary School in North Bend is named for William Claggett, a local student who drowned in Derry Lake in 1922.  In the 1920s this field was the…

by David Battey (originally published in 2004) The plan was to build the second “all electric” mill in the nation.  The first such mill being an upgrade of Weyerhaeuser’s Everett Mill B, completed in 1916.…

Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co Where DirtFish is located in Snoqualmie was once part of the second all electric mill built in the United States. The Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co was formed in 1914 and began…

by David Battey My niece asked me how difficult it was for my mother and her parents and her siblings during the Great Depression. Here is my answer: The Ralph and Hazel Swenson family did…

One of the frequent types of research requests the Museum gets is for information about a house or property. But, the first thing we need to know is the full address of the property when…

One of the Museum’s research inquiries this month was for information on where the Meadowbrook Inn or Hotel was located. Built by the Hop Ranch Growers’ Association around 1884 to act as a summer hotel…