Aberdeen’s Shipbuilding Boom
The S. E. Slade Lumber Company announces plans to build two new vessels in Aberdeen, signaling a surge in local industry.
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Information has been received that the S. E. Slade Lumber Company, of San Francisco, will construct two vessels for their own use at Aberdeen as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. The site on which they will be built and launched is adjacent to A. J. West's saw mill. This means steady employment for a large force of men for several months to come. The two vessels will be modeled after the Roy Sommers, and will be used in the growing lumber traffic between Aberdeen and San Francisco. This, and the other industries that are being established here, will go far toward making 1892 Aberdeen's most prosperous year. We understand that Captain McDonald of this city has the contract for the construction of the two vessels.
“This, and the other industries that are being established here, will go far toward making 1892 Aberdeen's most prosperous year.”
In the 1890s, Aberdeen was defining itself through the maritime lumber trade. Today, the waterfront has shifted from mill-based industrial production to a different economic landscape, but the city remains tethered to the geographic reality of its port.
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