Morton
This 60 mile side trip follows a scenic byway out along highway 508 along north fork of Tilton River through several small communities.
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A company town once owned by the Carlisle Lumber Company, and the former location of the Carlisle Lumber Plant, once the largest lumber mill in Lewis County, with an output at full capacity of 150,000 board feet a day. By the 1940s, rows of uniform, drab houses, owned by the company, were separated from the mill by a high board fence topped by barbed wire. As usual in such one-industry...
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It has been called Shoestring, Tilton and Alpha Prairie. The name chosen by Postmaster James Vickery was the Greek letter meaning first. The post office operated until July 15, 1954.
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Cinebar is a community between the Tilton River and Cinnabar Creek east of Chehalis at the head of Shoestring Valley. It was named for extensive cinnabar ore deposits, containing sulphide of mercury, which were mined in the vicinity for a number of years.
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Bremer is on the Tilton River west of Morton. In 1884, a post office was established as Tilton. When it closed in 1897, local residents changed the name to honor George Bremer, an early settler.
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Located at the foot of Cutler Mountain, a high, forested, loaf-shaped bluff, sprawls along the highway and the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad at the edge of the Tilton River Valley. It was an enterprising town, named after Benjamin Harrison’s Vice President, Levi P. Morton and by the 1940s earned most of its income from logging operations in the adjacent forests and the milling of...
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