G. A. Meigs
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- Sep 14, 1860Six Hours, Sixteen Thousand Feet: Puget Sound's Lumber BoomA correspondent touring the Sound in 1860 marvels at new sawmills at Utsalady and Port Gamble, where wild country is being turned into lumber camps and the Territory is already boasting of a manufacturing future to rival the older states.Utsalady, WA
- Mar 21, 1861The Boiler Bursts at Five TwentyA mill boiler at Port Madison exploded before the morning shift was fully at work, killing five men and scalding a sixth. A witness wrote that ten minutes later would have killed more.Bainbridge Island, WA
- Feb 17, 1877The Wooden Walls of Puget SoundA survey of the booming fleet of vessels built in Washington Territory in 1877, and why the local economy was missing out on the profits of its own timber.Seattle, WA
- Apr 29, 1882The Lumber Barons Who Built the SoundA 1882 reflection on the pioneers of the Puget Sound lumber industry, mapping the rise of the men who transformed Washington’s forests into fortunes.Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island