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| Title | Row of mill company houses in Port Blakely showing wooden tracks along road, ca. 1900 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1900 |
| Caption | Captain William Renton founded the Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. In the 1880's the mill became the largest sawmill on the Pacific Coast and was a major employer on Bainbridge Island. In 1879 Hall Brothers Shipyard moved its operations to Port Blakely and during this period Renton built houses for the families of mill workers, as well as a bachelor's dormitory and the Blakely Hotel. Henry Ziegler is known to have lived in the mill company housing with his wife M. Augusta Meins Ziegler. The train tracks running alongside the houses carried lumber from the mill to the shipyard. |
| Notes | Caption information source:
Price, Andrew Jr. Port Blakely: The Community Captain Renton Built. Seattle: Port Blakely Books, 1989
Yockey, Ross and L. Beth Yocky, Responsible to the Earth: The Remarkable History of the Port Blakely Companies. Seattle: Abecedary Press, 2007 |
| Subjects | Labor housing--Washington (State)--Port Blakely (Wash.); Dwellings--Washington (State)--Port Blakely (Wash.); Railroad tracks--Washington (State)--Port Blakely (Wash.); |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Port Blakely (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1977.6486.68 |
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| Credit Line | Ziegler and Rankin Families Photographs and Papers, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Ziegler and Rankin Families Photographs and Papers |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 3.5 x 4.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original photograph as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS2. |
