News Files
COMPILED BY CAROL SCHMIDT
EARLY HISTORY
The Konnerups from Denmark arrived in Stanwood with children Lena and Nels. Marie and F.C. Satra were married in Stanwood after her arrival from Minnesota.
100 YEARS AGO (1910)
The Lien brothers used their steamboat and barge to tow shingles and logs from Camano in conjunction with the Great Northern Railroad. John Layman, an employee at Stanwood Lumber Company, was termed “a faithful worker”; he and wife Mary Jane had seven children.
90 YEARS AGO (1920)
C.J. Young and wife Helen moved to Birmingham (Warm Beach), where he is carving their home out of the woods.
80 YEARS AGO (1930)
The State Bank of East Stanwood was nationalized and became a member of the Federal Reserve System. Rev. Christian Jorgenson passed away on Christmas Day; he came here in 1868 to serve a parish that stretched from Oregon to the Canadian border, including Idaho. He and his family of wife and nine children lived at Florence, thus establishing the first Lutheran parsonage in the Pacific Northwest. While stranded for 30 hours in their two-story house during a terrible flood in the 1870s, the family endured a severe earthquake which shook the whole coastal area, broke the dike, and let the flood water out to the sound. The much-admired pastor, who spoke five languages, suffered much in pioneer days but was instrumental in getting many Stanwood businesses started.
70 YEARS AGO (1940)
Twin Cities Rifle Club closed their indoor rifle range in Camano Island Hall, to move practice to the Logan Brothers rifle range at East Stanwood. Moving cattle to Camano was subject to close regulation by the State Dept. of Agriculture.
60 YEARS AGO (1950)
Eleanor and Clarence Monson built Monson’s Park ‘N Shop (Willow’s Café) in Silvana while she was postmaster there. An installation of a second circuit between Stanwood and Arlington was approved by commissioners.
50 YEARS AGO (1960)
Ole Nelson sold his bicycle and repair shop to Jim’s Sporting Goods (Butler Law Offices) and Carl Lee barbershop, retiring after 25 years. Local farmers and others interested in flooding met with Gov. Rosellini and flood control officials.
40 YEARS AGO (1970)
Stanwood FFA Chapter took small animals to the primary grades for visitation. The old red cedar stump (a car could drive through its hollowed base) out on Old 99 Highway, was moved to the rest stop on the west side of I-5. VFW sponsored a safety program putting reflective tape on bicycles at Stanwood Middle School.
30 YEARS AGO (1980)
A breathalyzer machine was on the Camano sheriff’s team order. Pacific Denkmann Co. donated 60 acres to Victoria Ranch, a rural center for the trainable handicapped.
20 YEARS AGO (1990)
Ian Greer of Stanwood won the state title in the National Geographic Society’s contest. Dist. 14 Fire Station was equipped with defibrillators. John Dean and Mary Lu Conley were Man and Woman of the Year. Camano Island Quilters made quilts for AIDS babies.
10 YEARS AGO (2000)
The school board trimmed the high school building project back to basics. A Camano lawyer accused of fraud may be disbarred. Two survived, one died in a helicopter crash at Norman, southwest of Stanwood. The waterfront in west Stanwood is to remain industrial.
