A former CCC camp, here towering trees shade Tolmie Creek, a crystal stream which plunges over great boulders on its way down the abrupt mountainside into the Carbon River. Under the supervision of the United States Forestry Department, logging by private companies was carried on in this forest, and occasionally the road provided views of logging operations on the timbered hillsides.

It was named by Puget Sound Power & Light Company to describe the site of their hydroelectric power plant in 1904. A post office was established November 25, 1903 by August Neubauer and operated until April 30, 1943.