DeLin Sawmill Nicholas Delin, builder -construction started in April 1852 -first shipment of lumber sent from what would become Tacoma in the fall of 1853, sent to San Francisco on the brig George W. Emery -first white child born in Tacoma was James Sales, born 10/28/1853 to mill-hand Wm. Sales, and his wife, Eliza -Nicholas DeLin married Gertrude Mueller on 11/25/1854, first marriage on the site of Tacoma -the Delin Family fled the mill to Fort Steilacoom in the fall of 1855, during the Puget Sound Indian War, of 1855-56, returning in the spring of 1857 -mill sold to John L. Perkins in 1861 -Perkins later sold the mill to Milas Galliher -last cargo of lumber shipped in 1865 -Frank Spinning operated the mill intermittently until 1869 -mill machinery sold by the Tacoma Land Co. in 1875 -address very approximate Pioneer & Democrat 10/30/1857 p.3 For sale
TNT 10/23/1925 Tells how Tacoma started as lumber capital (sketch) T.Times 1/1/1935 After many years
TNT 4/7/1953 p.C1,C5 Delin Mill was site of Tacoma's "birth" (il of painting of the mill)
TNT 10/18/1953 Pioneered lumber business here (sketch)
TNT 5/8/1962 Tacoma birthplace ...
TNT 6/24/1979 Meet Nicholas DeLin, pioneer Tacoma sawyer 325.24 F772S p.21-24 979.5 C18 Vol. II p.674-675 979.7 B51S p.124-126 979.7 B64 Vol. I p.123,124,148-152 979.7 C189S p.47-52 979.7 P76H3 Vol. II p.9 979.7 SN6 Vol. III p.158; Vol. IV p.350 979.7 W274T Vol. I p.151 979.7 W277 Vol. II p.219 979.72 H91 Vol. I p.9,97 979.72 M12P p.154-156 979.778 M823P p.76-82 979.778 M823S p.14,34,36,44,128 (il of mill painting by artist J.D.S. Conger, completed in 1878)