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Flashback: Main Street, 1900

This photo, looking east from Lewis Street, was taken the year before the fire of Sept. 16, 1901, which wiped out all the buildings visible on the right. This was…

Flashback: Monroe National Bank

Monroe National Bank was located at 107 W. Main St. G.F. Elwell, President, at center, is marked on the photo. Also shown are Olga Dorcas at left and Whit H.…

Flashback: Haying in the Woods Creek Valley

This photo was taken at the Taylor Place in 1910. Standing at left is I. E. Taylor, and standing at right is Charles Taylor. The Taylor Place later became the…

Flashback: Commercial House

Fred and George A. Hagedorn, originally from Minnesota by way of Walla Walla, opened Commercial House Nov. 1, 1906, on the northeast corner of Main and Blakeley Streets, at 123…

Flashback: Employees of Bozeman Canning Plant, July 30, 1939

Manager George Butler is standing at the top center in a white straw hat. The Bozeman Canning Plant was located west of Monroe on what is now the southwest corner…

Flashback: Stephens-Bird Lumber & Logging Company railroad operations, June 1912

Stephens-Bird Lumber Company was established sometime around 1908 on the east bank of the Snoqualmie River near High Bridge. E. Milton Stephens was the president, his brother Elmer was vice-president,…

Flashback: Frank W. Wagner

The younger son of George Wagner by Anna Mabel Wagner, Frank W. Wagner was born April 9, 1878. He lost his sight while in college. He never married. Frank Wagner…

Flashback: Residential Main Street

This photo was taken around 1924 in the vicinity of Sams Street. It looks southwest toward Madison (extreme left). Sams Street is the cross street in the middle. Monroe Historical…

Flashback: Monroe High School 1914 baseball team

This photo was taken on the front steps of the Reformatory Administration Building on Decoration Day, 1914. The photo was used in the 1915 Sahalie, the high school yearbook, which…

Flashback: Dinnertime!

This is a typical scene when the bell rang at Wagner and Wilson Mill in Monroe. The sign over the door reads “Boarding House; For Regular Boarders Only; Others Keep…

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