This was the Clayton School until 1915 when the beautiful brick building opened.
The interior of the Westby Mercantile in about 1915. Kap Westby is on the left. .
The lifelong home of Elmer Anderson and his two sisters, Hazel and Teckla. From the Farm to Market to the Williams Valley road. Photographed by Bill Sebright June 2010.
The Wind House in Clayton. Neat as a pin. With a classic outhouse to boot.
Prior to the devestating fires, Clayton was quite the little metropolis. The fire took every business, the train depot and the brick plant. The terracotta and the residetial area was spared due to a change in the wind direction. Also left standing was the Protestant Church in the upper left which still stands today.
Mrs. Lena Michels attends her 80th Birthday party as guest at the Ray Carr family home. The Michels lived on the east end of Clayton most all their lives and built the tiny barn as pictured below.
This is Hazel Schonfeld in Grand Forks, British Columbia, 1930. She is standing in front of the World War I Veterans' Memorial. It is thought that she was there to watch the Clayton town baseball team. The photo on the right is the same Memorial 70 years later.
Rose and Fred Schonfeld at their 50th Wedding Anniversary party.
This is a new log house being built by Jimmy Lee Hatfield, summer of 2010. Jimmy Lee was Superintendent of Burton Construction and in charge of the remodeling of the Clayton School.
Now under the proud ownership of Sharon (Jarrett) Olson, located in the very eastern part of Clayton. Originaly built by the Michel's family in 1926 as a chicken coup. A Bob Clouse photo.
Mae Huffman Fischbach (Clayton High School Class of 1932) in her Spokane home. Her father was the rural mail carrier for many years. There is a picture of her father in his mail buggy on Clayton Page 2. Her brother Bob built the roman brick house north of the railroad tracks west of the old brick plant. Leno Prestini laid the bricks. He put an "H" in the fireplace on the west side of the house. The Loren Hubbard family now live there so the "H" still works! A Bill Sebright photograph.
Mr. and Mrs. Scrivens, Clarence and Wilda Nord circa 1950s. Thanks to Warren and Rainy Nord for the picture. Clarence Nord was the janitor at Clayton Grade School for many years. He pampered all of us little rug rats tirelessly. Mr. and Mrs. Scrivens had a son named Ray. He and Carl Lindh ran the gas station for a few years. When Ray left it became Carl and Don's for many years.
Teresia Calene found Carl & Don's. They moved out to Highway 395 and started out fresh. See below.
Miss Calene ran Carl & Don's down again, now owned by Jim Calicoat, and called Chief Petroleum.
After Miss Calene snapped one of Taffy (Calicoat) & Randy Long's famous Clayton Burger Drive In she and her Clayton escort meandered back downtown. Being the professinal that she is, recognized a colorful scene snapped the picture, and here's the results. Old is simply beautiful. CLAYTON IS OLD.
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This is the old school as a private home. This building is the present Brickyard Tavern?
From the archives of Jack & Ellen Lewis comes this image from circa 1918 of the three year old Clayton School.
A long sought after photo of the Terra Cotta Moose sculpture on the west side of the Clayton Moose Hall (now the Grange Hall). It might have been taken professionally the day the Lodge was dedicated. See another Vera Spaulding photo in Clayton 1 showing the dedication of the Moose Hall.
Bill Sebright as an early teenager with the biggest brook trout his family took out of Beaver Creek. He still lives on the banks of Beaver Creek. His father bought the old Macklin place in 1947.
Monte Carr mounted on his Dad Ray's prize draft horse in the mid 1940s. This, the photo of Lena Michael to the left as well as the picture of Grandmother Christina Cowan were secured by Peter Coffin through none other than Monte Carr and his Mother Evelyn Carr. We are extremely grateful.
This is Hazel Renner by the Veterans' Memorial in 2000. The Memorial has Veterans from 2 more wars now.
From a 1908 postcard this view of Clayton probably taken from a smoke stack. As you can see from the piles of cord wood the brick plant was once fueled by wood from the surrounding area. Many people like Eddie Oslen made a living cutting cord wood. The building with the "X" on it was the store owned by Joe Huffman, Mae Huffman Fischbach's uncle.
Fred and Rosina Catherine (Schmidt) Schonfeld on their wedding day.
A few of our Clayton Deer Park Historical Society group. L. to R. Wallace Parker, Editor of our publicatons, Duane Costa, (who along with his Cousin Bruno donated an original Leno Prestini painting to the CDPHS. It was delivered to us by Mr. Bruno Costa.), Warren Nord, along with his wife Rainy are the proud owners of the farm depicted in Clayton Page 6, and Bob Gibson, (He and his wife Lily Mae Lowery Gibson were born and raised in the area. He was a walking historian.)
The AB Pit of Washington Brick and Lime Company in 1939.
This is the graduating class of 1932 from Clayton High School. Front row left to right: Mae Huffman (Fischbach), Francis Wind, Marie Loomis, Ruth Hanson, Back row: Forrest Biddle, Glen Herr, Milton Carr, Bob Sater. Arnold Johnson was in the class but is not in the picture.
WE LOVE A MYSTERY: And here is one! It has been suggested by Karen Renner Meyer that this is the original Clayton Grange on the old Farm to Market road a half mile west of Highway 395 and Clayton. We are working on this all new development. Because Karen can Identify her Grandfather Schonfeld in the picture, she thinks it's a building in the Clayton area.
A photograph of the AB clay pit northeast of Clayton in1940. Is that Ben or Richard Renner on the loader? Peter Coffin remembers that Guy Davis had the frame of the loader at the corner of his farm in Big Foot Valley for years in the late 1950's.
A well deserved plaque was presnted to Dave Franklin Chairman of the Deer Park School Board by CDPHS President, Bill Sebright. It is believed that one is just as proud and deserving as the other. This was no mean feat.
1925- Walt King Sr. and Wife Clara with their seven children on the Beaver Brook farm located 1/2 mile south of the Clayton School. Back Row- L-R Mother Clara, Walt Jr. On the far right Walt Sr. holding baby Miles. Front Row- far right Arlene, mother of Edward, who we thank for the vast family history he has furnished the CDPHS.
Thank you Teresia Calene for being part of our community even for a little while. Your Home town of Wenatchee will be proud of you.
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