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| Title | Railroad camp, Ostrander Railway and Timber Company, ca. 1930 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1930 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Ostrander Railway & Timber Co. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 68
PH Coll 516.2556 |
| Contextual Notes | The sawmill at Ostrander was incorporated in 1893 as the Ostrander Railroad Company. It specialized in sawing long timbers (up to 140 feet long), using a carriage with trailers on a long track. Many of the timbers used in the construction of the Panama Canal came from there. Over 35,000 acres of timberland was purchased around this mill. In the mid-1890s a two-story building was built with a store and post office on the first floor and company offices on the second floor. A hotel was built on the hill above this building and a Methodist church and parsonage were constructed on the hillside. In the latter part of this decade a school was built on a knoll beside a large Maple tree. In 1903 a flume was constructed to carry water from Ostrander Creek to a hydraulic ram that pumped it uphill to a tank, from which the water was piped to employees' houses. The lands around Ostrander were sold to Weyerhauser in 1945.
Ostrander is a community on the Cowlitz River three miles northeast of Longview at the mouth of Ostrander Creek in central Cowlitz County. It was once a thriving sawmill town. In 1898, the name was given by the Northern Pacific Railway for Dr. Nathaniel and Mrs. Eliza Jane Yantis Ostrander who filed for a Donation Land Claim in 1852. Dr. Ostrander who was the first medical doctor in Southwest Washington died in Olympia on February 7, 1902 and Mrs. Ostrander died February 22, 1899.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Lumber camps--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Tree stumps--Washington (State)
Ostrander Railway and Timber Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Logging--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0451 |
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| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 2556
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b/w ; 11 x 14 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
