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- 1924-08-12
Part of Marvin Boland Photographs
On August 12, 1924, representatives from five families of Eastern Montana dry farmers were photographed at the Tacoma Municipal Dock. The families were relocating to farms purchased in Vaughn, on the eastern shore of the Case Inlet in Northern Pierce County. The men had arrived with a large boxcar filled with household goods, farm implements and even two cows. They were waiting to have the goods transferred to the steamer Burrows for the final leg of their journey. Pictured left to right are C. Blydorp, John W. Walniewicz, Johnny Vanlamen, Charles Vitol, Ed Vanlamen and Hank Vandervan. The men had purchased farms in Vaughn on the recommendation of one farmer who had visited the Puget Sound the Christmas before. Most of the party of 14 persons had never seen the Puget Sound or the land they would soon call home. (TNT 8/13/1924, pg. 15) G72.1-154
Colonists--Vaughn; Homesteading; Farms--Vaughn; Farming--Vaughn; Blydorp, C.; Walniewicz, John W.; Vanlamen, Johnny; Vitol, Charles; Vanlamen, Ed; Vandervan, Hank;