![]() ![]() Cedar Mountain was mined as late as 1947. The mine never produced as much coal as did other mines in the area, but it averaged 90,000 tons per year and employed hundreds of men. Cedar Mountain, located just north of town, was mined starting in 1884. Along with all this, the City of Seattle had chosen the Cedar river as its watershed, and much work was needed there.īlack Diamond was the hub of local coal mining activity to the south, but Maple Valley also had a stake in coal. More residents meant more lumber milling, which provided more jobs. ![]() The Northern Pacific Railroad, to the south, also had a need for rail workers. As the tracks were laid westward, workers moved into the area. In 1907, the Milwaukee Road pushed through the Cascades to a point just east of the town. ![]() In 1885, trains began to haul coal over a narrow gauge track from the nearby mining town of Black Diamond. The communities of Hobart and Taylor sprang up nearby, but the railroad helped solidify Maple Valley as the centerpiece. In 1887, Russell laid out the town, now called Maple Valley, but it wasn't platted until 1890. Over time, the mill burned down twice, and though it was rebuilt, Ames eventually gave up and moved to Pacific City, near Auburn. Around 1882, Ames and Russell built a sawmill to process the lumber needed to build homes. In the early 1880s, settlers' cabins sparsely dotted land surrounding the creeks that fed the Cedar River. ![]() Later, Arthur Russell was born, providing the name Arthur to the precinct and the first post office, located originally in the Russell home. They also decided to name the voting precinct after the first child born in the new community. Vine Maple Valley received two out of the three votes, so they made it unanimous. They placed their choices on slips of paper, and placed them in a hat. Ames proposed Vine Maple Valley, but Russell thought Maple Ridge to be a better name. One of them suggested that they name the future community. The three were improving a trail before they brought their families in. The first settlers in what is now Maple Valley were George Ames, Henry Sidebotham, and C.O. Originally a hodgepodge of homesteader cabins, its growth can be attributed to the lumber industry, coal mining, railroads, watersheds, and highway development. All rights reserved.Maple Valley, a King County community nestled 10 miles southeast of Renton within the sheer-cliffed Cedar River valley, grew from its outskirts inward toward its center. We need your help to improve it :)Ĭopyright© 2008-2023 Bandisoft International Inc. This page has not been translated yet or has been machine-translated. File integrity check test to ensure whether an archive is damaged or not.Availability of ZIP & RAR format archive comment.Supported formats: 7Z, ACE, AES, ALZ, ARJ, BH, BIN, BR, BZ, BZ2, CAB, Compound(MSI), DAA(1.0), DEB, EGG, GZ, IMG, ISO, ISZ, LHA, LZ, LZH, LZMA, PMA, RAR, RAR5, SFX(EXE), TAR, TBZ/TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WIM, XPI, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, ZPAQ, PEA, UU, UUE, XXE, ASAR, ZSTD, and NSIS.Multi-volume archive creation of ZIP/7z format.Unicode or MBCS filename for ZIP format.Supports compression of 4GB+ size files.Up to 6 times faster compression using multi-core.ZIP file modification (add/delete/rename).Supported formats: ZIP, 7Z(lzma2), ZIPX(xz), EXE(sfx), TAR, TGZ, LZH(lh7), ISO(joliet), GZ, and XZ.Detect malware in an archive by safe and accurate antimalware scan ![]()
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