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Railroad trestle bridge under construction near the top of Tiger Mountain, with blacksmith working at forge under canvas awning, Wood and Iverson Lumber Company, n.d.
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| Title | Railroad trestle bridge under construction near the top of Tiger Mountain, with blacksmith working at forge under canvas awning, Wood and Iverson Lumber Company, n.d. |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Wood & Iverson Lmbr Co. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. 95
PH Coll 516.5118 |
| Contextual Notes | The Wood & Iverson Lumber Company was started in 1898 by William W. Wood and Iver C. Iverson. The company's first shingle mill was located east of Snohomish in an area called French Creek. The company used horses for logging until 1903, when it purchased its first locomotive. In May 1912, after logging out the area around French Creek, the company was relocated to Hobart in King County, and a sawmill was built and logging railroad track laid. Operations at Hobart ceased in the 1940s.
Hobart was located in Maple Valley. Settlers began filing land claims in the area as far back as 1878. The Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad reached Hobart in 1898 with its Maple Valley branch. In 1903, the little community got a post office and was officially named Hobart, reportedly after President William McKinley's vice president, George A. Hobart. Sometime in 1915, Wood & Iverson acquired the Hobart Store. The company had also built a three-story boardinghouse that the locals called "The Hobart" along with a dining room, a cookhouse, a pool room, and a barber shop. It had also started building company houses along the west side of Hobart Road, building 36 over the years.
In later years, this bridge was nicknamed the "Horseshoe Trestle."
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)
Trestles--Washington (State)
Railroad construction workers--Washington (State)
Wood and Iverson Lumber Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
Wood and Iverson Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Logging railroads--Washington (State)--King County--Design and construction
Logging--Washington (State)--King County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--King County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK01037 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 5118
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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. |
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