Northwest Profiles: Apples and Orchards
Pete Coffin is interviewed about the Arcadia Orchards on Northwest Profiles
Arcadia Orchards Film
The 1911 promotional film created to spur interest in investing in Deer Park Apple Orchards.
Lawrence and Mary Zimmerer Interview
In March of 2001, Dan Huffman and his video production team interviewed longtime Deer Park, WA residents Lawrence and Mary Zimmerer. Listen as they go through their historical photo album and give us great detail on the history of Deer Park and the surrounding areas!
Ken Fisher Theater Dedication
The program linked below is a Presentation of the Deer Park High School Broadcast Production Department.
High School Gymnasium / Civic Center:
Time-Lapse Demolition
Video Credit: Deer Park Stag TV
Brief History of the High School Gymnasium & Deer Park Civic Center
After years of planning, ground was broken for a new High School gymnasium in November of 1923. The school district had just built the grade school on north Main Street and had no funds for such a project. However, a group of businessmen formed the Deer Park Athletic Association, raised $7500 to buy a tract of land across Crawford Street from the High School as a site for an athletic field and to build a gymnasium. This association held title to the building and leased it to the school district. At the end of the ten-year lease the title was signed over to the school district. Deer Park Lumber and other merchants gave the project special low prices for lumber and other construction materials. William Burgenhagen was construction superintendent supervising construction labor donated by both the students and citizens. The lack of school district bond money and the donation of building materials explains why the high school gymnasium was constructed of wood and not brick. This building was then used as a Community Center up until 2016. The 93-year-old building was demolished in 2016 to make room for the new Fire Station.
(Reference issue #44 - Mortarboard - December 2011)
After years of planning, ground was broken for a new High School gymnasium in November of 1923. The school district had just built the grade school on north Main Street and had no funds for such a project. However, a group of businessmen formed the Deer Park Athletic Association, raised $7500 to buy a tract of land across Crawford Street from the High School as a site for an athletic field and to build a gymnasium. This association held title to the building and leased it to the school district. At the end of the ten-year lease the title was signed over to the school district. Deer Park Lumber and other merchants gave the project special low prices for lumber and other construction materials. William Burgenhagen was construction superintendent supervising construction labor donated by both the students and citizens. The lack of school district bond money and the donation of building materials explains why the high school gymnasium was constructed of wood and not brick. This building was then used as a Community Center up until 2016. The 93-year-old building was demolished in 2016 to make room for the new Fire Station.
(Reference issue #44 - Mortarboard - December 2011)
In Search of the Gwen
Urban legend says it's the 1910 tour boat the "Gwen" that we see below the surface of Loon Lake. The Historical Society goes on a dive to check it out.