Monroe High School - Hayu Saghalie Yearbook (Monroe, WA)

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3n jHeimuiam With due reverence and respect for the greater things of life, we pause a moment to pay just trib- ute to the indomitable courage of the pioneers, the men who sought not the fountain of youth nor the river of gold, but life, peace and happiness for themselves and their pos- terity.

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M U H 1 T Y E DEDICATION Mr. Henry C. Frohning. for years a faithful servant of his community, has en- tered a new kingdom, a realm of wisdom far higher than ours. It is he to whom we dedicate this volume, perpetuating by our memory of him the dauntless courage of his fathers—the pioneers— with the hope in mind that we may more fully appreciate the legacy they have left us—the bequest of liberty, justice and op- portunity forever. Three

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MUHI T Y E HISTORICAL FLICKERS To the hurrying traveler, to the casual passerby, and in many cases to the resident, seldom comes the thought of the various stages of devel- opment and the periods of transforma- tion through which the City of Monroe has passed in reaching the present high state of utility, wealth and beauty among the cities of Snohomish County. One of the most interesting facts per- taining to the history surrounding the present City of Monroe is the evolution of names through which it has passed in attaining the title it now holds. It has held at one time or another the names of Park Place, Monroe, Wales, Tye, and again Monroe, as will be seen in the following history. It was in 1870 when a certain Salem Woods, after trekking into this valley of wonderful beauty and fertility, at- tempted to start a settlement at the forks of the Skykomish and Snoqual- mie rivers. He called it Park Place, and the name still holds today. How- ever. he was not to be called the ‘ father’ of Monroe, for it was not until October, 1889, when J. A. Va- nasdlen had started the first store at Park Place that the spot was known to the outside world. The first postoffice was given the name Monroe with Mr. Vanasdlen as postmaster. During the years 1889 to 1891 Monroe, or Park Place as it was then called, business firms consisted of the Ladd Eliot Hotel, the blacksmith shop of George Beton, the grocery store of J. W. Hal vert, the Shannahan 8c Chitwood Butcher Shop and the John Johnson Hotel. First to actually locate Monroe, J. A. Vanasdlen was also the first to re- locate in the new site. Here he and John Stretch platted the new town which was called Wales by the Great Northern authorities, but which was changed to Tye City, for the man who, he says, was the real locating engi- neer of the Great Northern Railway. This town, platted on the homestead of John Stretch, thrived steadily until the depression of 1893 when the gen- eral development was halted for a few years. About 1891 a fire destroyed the en- tire business block of Monroe at an ap- proximate loss of $36,700; the build- ings were restored at once. Then in 1902 the town was incorporated in the name of Monroe. Within the next I 5 years its population grew to about 1,500, five times the population at the time of its incorporation. Monroe is the natural gateway to the majestic Cascades from the west and a gateway to Puget Sound and the Pacific from the east; it has within a radius of a few miles a variety of scen- ery, natural resources and natural transportation facilities as can scarcely be found elsewhere. Five