May 23, 2013

Re: Dark Roasted Blend: Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest: Bordeaux, Washington

Dark Roasted Blend: Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest: Bordeaux, Washington. I have an Google key word alert for the terms “Bordeaux Washington” and a link to the article above arrived in my email today. As I just wrote a post today about Blanch Philby’s untimely death in the town of Bordeaux, I thought this [...]

Railroad Service From Bordeaux To Seattle Connected With Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific Line

NPPL rail map

Washington State Railroads and Lumber Mills Today, I received an interesting vintage postcard from a new friend who had found it on Ebay.  Postmarked 10 May 1915, it was a confirmation from the Mumby Lumber and Shingle Company of Bordeaux, Washington sent to George F. Nilder (or Hilder), a representative of the Chicago, Milwaukee and [...]

Carnival of Genealogy – 57th Edition “I read it in the news!”

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Technically, I didn’t read this article in the news since it happened about nine years before I was born, but it was in the Daily Olympian newspaper in 1941. As the caretaker of the family documents and pictures, this article was one of a few about our family that made the news. Dad never “won” [...]

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