News Files
COMPILED BY CAROL SCHMIDT
EARLY HISTORY
1890, Nicolai Bernhard Thomle and wife Emilie arrived in Stanwood from Norway; he was born in 1843 and graduated from agriculture school in Lilehammer before coming to America, where he bought the homestead of James Kathbert two miles southeast of town.
100 YEARS AGO (1910)
Hannah (Vognild) who was born in Opal, Norway in 1887, migrated to America, married Knut and came to Silvana where they lived for the next 50 years.
90 YEARS AGO (1920)
Wes Gray and Forrest Johnson of Seattle brought their plane here and offered $5 rides from Andrew Leckness’ farm field. Walter Walker came home to Conway after serving as radio operator with the U.S. Navy in WWI.
80 YEARS AGO (1930)
First National Bank chose the Andrew Simonson property corner of Main/Center streets to build the new bank. Clifford and Minnie Turk moved to Silvana last year; he was born in Minnesota in 1902, had eight brothers and a sister; they later moved to East Stanwood.
70 YEARS AGO (1940)
Lein Brothers Packing, and Bozeman Canning Co. of East Stanwood started pea growers on their first spring planting of 600 acres of beets, cabbage and carrots.
60 YEARS AGO (1950)
Both mayors of the Stanwoods agreed that there would be no change to daylight saving time in the Twin Cities. Mrs. Hilda Hanson resigned as JSH matron; Mr. and Mrs. K.N. Letmolle of Seattle took over.
50 YEARS AGO (1960)
The Pioneer Historical Society reorganized. D. Carl Pearson, the first white child born in this area, spoke to the morning coffee hour at Irvin Library. Rainfall for 1959 in the Triangle Bay area was 32.5 inches.
40 YEARS AGO (1970)
An area manufacturer of the “honey-comb” structural materials used in Apollo moonships, spoke to the Kiwanis Club. Les’s Auto Repair had open house for the new building (above Triangle Park). Green Wood Garden Club planted new shrubs at Greenwood Grange.
30 YEARS AGO (1980)
No more can travelers view the stationary pea viners along SR 532, nor smell the peas all over town, as the viners were dismantled. Stanwood wrestlers qualified for the State AA tourney.
20 YEARS AGO (1990)
Myrtle Stensaa, Stanwood’s “one-woman chamber of commerce,” urged a cleanup of town on Earth Rally ’90.
10 YEARS AGO (2000)
Stanwood Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, and Rotary Club members planted flowering plum tress all along Main Street. Camano Island Soaps is a new at-home business on the island.
