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WHEN COAL WAS KING: Hawk-Lake Sawyer, 1983Â : VOICE of the Valley (opens the original)
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Last weekâs column detailed how Jim Hawk dredged, filled, and sculpted the south end of Lake Sawyer, converting swampland into a potential lakefront residential plat with 31 building sites. After obtaining Hydraulic Project Approval from the Department of Game & Fisheries, the project took Hawk five years to complete, from 1967 to 1971. The finished project lacked sewers, so Jim shelved his development ideas and pursued other projects, chief among them his familyâs Black River Quarry, a mini
WHEN COAL WAS KING: 1914 Black Diamond Logging Crew : VOICE of the Valley (opens the original)
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During the coal mining boom of the early 1900s, some implied that as many men worked outside as underground miners within. While not literally true, the fact remains that underground coal mining operations depended heavily on surface workers, many of whom worked in the woods. A striking testament is this 1914 photograph of a local logging crew deep in the woods near Black Diamond. These loggers provided an underground mine its literal structural backbone. Unlike the generally flat coal fields of
WHEN COAL WAS KING: Kummer School 1939 : VOICE of the Valley (opens the original)
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As students return to school, this column returns to the Kummer Schoolhouse. By the time of this November 6, 1939, King County Assessor photo, it was no longer a school. Domenico and Rose Callero acquired the former schoolhouse and moved it to their property on S.E. Green Valley Road, where it still stands today. Kummer (rhymes with drummer) was a small coal and clay mining town located south of Black Diamond, about halfway between Flaming Geyser and the bridge that carries S.R. 169 over the Gre
WHEN COAL WAS KING: William Hart & Claude Vealey, June 1971 : VOICE of the Valley (opens the original)
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Eric Hoffer, the American writer widely known as the ‘Longshoreman Philosopher,’ once claimed that “every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” The grisly event that led to this June 23, 1971, photo of attorney William Hart and his handcuffed client Claude Vealey is a cautionary tale of how a once-great union was led astray. John L. Lewis was a towering figure in the American labor movement, president of the United Mine Workers of Americ
WHEN COAL WAS KING: Black Diamond History Museum : VOICE of the Valley (opens the original)
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It all started with a train depot. Black Diamond’s oldest structure is also its most historic – literally. Completed in 1886, a little over a year after the first train load of coal was shipped to Seattle, the Black Diamond Depot was destined to play a continuing role through the rise, fall, and resurgence of what is today King County’s fastest-growing city. Through its first 90 years of history, the depot hosted a rail station, post office, telegraph station, county library, restaurant, and the
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