A LOGGING LOCOMOTIVE steams through a cut near Sol Simpson's Camp 5 around the turn of the 20th Century. The camp, founded in 1900, was west of Matlock near the Frisken Y. Simpson Logging Company started in 1895.

BOOKS ABOUT MASON COUNTY

All sold by Mason County Historical Society at its museum at Fifth and Railroad in Shelton (426-1020):

Beast-Man, historical account of John Tornow, by Mike Fredson, 2002.

Big Trees and Steam Lokies, by David James, 1997.

Conversations with Esther, A Personal History of Harstine Island, by Esther Goetsch as told to John Erickson, 1998.

Early Settlement of Lake Cushman, by Larry Overland, 1974.

Family Trees, Story of Simpson Timber Company, by Robert Spector, 1990.

Fifty Years in Sherwood Creek Valley, Allyn, by Dorothy Gornick, 1999.

Grapeview, the Detroit of the West, A Narrative History of the Early Years, 1872-1923, by Mary Sagerson and Duane Robinson, 1992.

Grisdale, Last of the Logging Camps, by David James, 1986.

Guilty by Circumstance, saga of John Tornow, by Ron Fowler, 1998.

Hoodsport, Ida's Story, Gateway to the Olympics, by Jean Bearden, 1987.

How, When & Where on Hood Canal, by Helen McReavy Andersen, 1960.

History of Belfair and the Tahuya Peninsula, by Irene Davis, 2001.

I'd Still be a Logger, by Marvin Cartwright, 1999.

The Island Remembers, A History of Harstine Island and Its People, by Beulah Hitchcock and Helen Wingert, 1979.

Log Camp Adventures of Marvin & Tommy, Volumes I and II, by Marvin Cartwright, 1995, 1998.

Log Towns, by Michael Fredson, 1993.

Logging to the Saltchuck, by Peter Replinger and John Labbe, 1990.

Mason County Trees, by J.W. Duffield, 1998.

Mining the North Fork, Skokomish, by Robert Keatts, 1982.

Oakland to Shelton, the Sawdust Trail, by Michael Fredson, 1976.

Old Growth, The Human Side of Logging in the Pacific Northwest, by Newt Townsend, 1997.

Shelton's Boom, the Classic Years, 1910-1933, by Michael Fredson, 1982.

Shelton, the First Century, Plus Ten, by Berwyn Thomas and Fredi Perry, 1996.

Tales from a Tahuya Log, by Effie Knowlton, 1992.

Tales from a Tahuya Log, Second Growth, by Helen Huson Olson, 2000.

Tales of Hood Canal, by Valerie Abrams Johnson, 2000.

Where the Huckleberries Grow, by Agnes Rands, 2000.

OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS ON MASON COUNTY

Available to read at the Mason County Historical Society Museum for research purposes:

Green Commonwealth, by James Stevens, 1945.

Green Power, The Story of Public Law 273, by James Stevens, 1958.

Hood Canal, Splendor at Risk, by Jeff Brody & staff of The Bremerton Sun, 1991.

History of Mason County, Revised Edition, by Dr. Harry Deegan, 1960.

An Ice Axe, A Camera & Jar of Peanut Butter, by Ira Spring, 1998.

Little Man & The Little Oyster, by Humphrey Nelson, 1989.

Long, Long Ago in Skokomish Valley, by Emma B. Richert, 1964.

Lumber and Politics, the Career of Mark E. Reed, by Robert E. Ficken, 1979.

Mason County, Washington, An Illustrated History, by Susan Olsen & Mary Randlett, 1978.

The Oyster Was Our World, Life on Oyster Bay 1898 to 1914, by Cora G. Chase, 1976.

Solemn Silence, Complete Guide to Hood Canal, by William Schweizer, 1992.

100 Years in Shelton, A Short History of Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 11 , F and M , 1964.

LANDMARKS ON SHELTON'S HISTORIC REGISTER

Structure, address, building style and year built, in order of addition to the register:

Old State Bank of Shelton, 203 West Railroad, Commercial Vernacular, 1915.

Old town hall and library, 427 West Railroad, Georgian Revival, 1914.

W.H. Snelgrove House, 611 West Birch, Craftsman Bungalow, 1927.

Tollie locomotive and caboose, 230 West Railroad, 1924 for Tollie and the 1920s for caboose.

Old Masonic lodge, 218 North Third, Cruciform-shaped Vernacular, 1926.

Grant Angle House, 629 West Cota, Queen Anne, 1890.

J.F. Brokaw House, 628 North Sixth, Tudor Revival, 1929.

W.M. Dunbar and G.B. Gunderson House, 529 North Fifth, Colonial Revival, 1888.

Govey House, 321 North Second, Craftsman, 1907.

Saint David's Episcopal Church, 324 West Cedar, Tudor Revival, 1948.

Edward Hillier House, 514 North Third, Vernacular, 1935.

Ravenna Way Trail, head at the Highland Drive-Angleside Road intersection, Historic Roadway, 1909.

Richard Saeger House, 1028 Buena Vista, Tudor/Vernacular, 1928.

Old Heckman-Schick Building, 121 and 123 West Railroad, Mission Revival, 1915.

E.H. Needham House, 626 West Pine, Craftsman, 1925.

Cyrus Gilbert Building, 909 South Seventh, Craftsman, 1911.

Emil Paulson Building, 109 South Second, Commercial Vernacular, 1915.

Fred Short House, 728 West Birch, Craftsman, 1924.

Govey Building, 331 West Railroad, Brick and Mortar, 1924.

H.A. Ahlskog House, 624 West Birch, Residential Vernacular, 1941.

Colonial House, 222 West Pine, Colonial Revival, 1920.

Old Shelton Hotel, First and Railroad, Mission Revival, 1908.

Allan Bell House, 621 West Laurel Street, Residential Vernacular, 1898.

J.C. Penney Building, 205 West Cota Street, Commercial Vernacular, 1924.

LANDMARKS ON NATIONAL HISTORIC REGISTER

Goldsborough Creek Bridge, on First Street between Park and Kneeland streets, Concrete Arch Bridge, construction date unknown.

Old town hall and library, 427 West Railroad, Georgian Revival, 1914.

Tollie locomotive and caboose, 230 West Railroad, 1924 for Tollie and the 1920s for caboose.

North and south Hamma Hamma River bridges south of Eldon on Highway 101.

Hamma Hamma Guard Station northwest of Eldon in Olympic National Forest.

Harstine Island Community Hall at North Island Drive and Harstine Island Drive.

Big Creek archaeological site, City of Tacoma's Lake Cushman Reservoir.

Cushman hydroelectric plants 1 and 2 on North Fork Skokomish River.

Steel Bridge spanning South Fork Skokomish River.

Oakland site, three miles northeast of Shelton on Highway 3.

Vance Creek Bridge northwest of Shelton.

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