A Continuing Collected Newsletters of the Clayton & Deer Park Historical Society....
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| Issue #10: Letters & Brickbats - Dec. 4th, 2024 |
Subjects within Issue #10: The locations of and various techniques useful when searching free online sources of historical data. This newsletter includes active links to said sources.
| Issue #9: Letters & Brickbats - Oct. 1st, 2024 |
Subjects within Issue #9: This issue discusses Phillip Leliefeld's donation to the society of a ceramic Christmas card dated 1930 - possibly, in ceramic tile historian Ron Endlich's opinion, the work of Leno Prestini. There's also a piece suggesting the current location of the first terracotta object molded by Leno Prestini after he was hired at Clayton's factory - that back in 1925. And lastly just a short piece on the somewhat more vigorous Halloween pranks of years gone by.
| Issue #8: Letters & Brickbats - Sept. 8th, 2024 |
Subjects within Issue #8: Tracing the donation of a vintage postal scale - beginning with Clayton's first rural mail carrier: The "who" in Allen's Siding: Research into Clayton's first post office - the second that took and the first that didn't.
| lssue #7: Letters & Brickbats - July 19, 2024 |
Subjects within Issue #7: Ken Westby says, "Mom and dad were newlyweds at the classic Olson Hotel." The Spokane Public Library's Northwest Room - a treasure trove of historic data, changes its name: How to access Floyd Daggett's historic photos of the Arcadia: A 1905 Spokane County map donated by the family of Guy Knapp, and some background of said family: And a few notes in remembrance of Deer Park High School graduate Trudy Bishop.
| Issue #6: Letters & Brickbats - June 7th, 2024 |
Subjects within Issue #6: Susan Rumble donates several Prestini art tiles to Society: A newspaper ad suggesting Sleepless in Deer Park is looking for love as of 1894 - and finds it: Luminous image of Old Deer Park created by Leno Prestini's brush.
| Issue #5: Letters & Brickbats - April 27th, 2024 |
Subjects within Issue #5: Revealing some of the people associated with the early years of the Elk Mercantile Company: Recounting how a young Elk resident was kidnaped on his wedding night: Reporting that Professor Zentner of Ellensburg's Central Washington University says evidence suggests the entire Little Spokane River Basin was covered by glaciers some 150,000 years ago.
| Issue #4: Letters & Brickbats - April 15th, 2024 |
Subjects within Issue #4: George Emerson Crawford and his Eastern Washington and Southern Minnesota Families.
| Issue #3: Letters & Brickbats - Jan. 26th, 2024 |
Subjects within Issue #3: Beginning set of articles detailing longtime Clayton resident Eddie Olsen's recollections of working at Clayton's Brick Plant.
| Issue #2: Letters & Brickbats - Nov. 27th, 2023 |
Subjects within Issue #2: Progress in indexing the Mortarboards, searching for Elk’s first postmaster – Louis Thiesmeyer – and along the way tapping into the National Archives for data on pioneer post offices and Washington State’s digital archives for vintage birth and death certificates.
| Issue #1: Letters & Brickbats - Nov. 8th, 2023 |
Subjects within Issue #1: Loon Lake, Bass Fishing, D. C. Corbin, the naphtha launch Witch, Evan Morgan, Morgan’s Park, and Spokane Falls & Northern Railway