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D155600-362C
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- 1969-07-01 (Creation)
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1969 Richards stock footage. Nearly lost in a sea of trees is Camp Six. The Camp Six Logging Museum was established in 1964 by logging engineers. Located on a 14-acre site within the Point Defiance Park, Camp Six's mission was to educate the public about the logging era with photographs, paintings, railroad and equipment displays showing how people lived and worked in the logging camps of old. A prime feature is still the Old Number 7 Shay locomotive; it had been retired May of 1964 from the Klickitat Line, the last all-steam logging railroad on the west coast. The Shay was given to Camp Six by the St. Regis Paper Co. The last section of the circular track was completed on June 2, 1969, and the train was to offer rides as soon as volunteer engineers were obtained. Tracks, ties & fittings were donated as well as money to lay rails. The Camp Six museum is staffed by volunteers and admission to the outdoor exhibits is the same in 2005 as in 1964, free. (www.camp-6-museum.org; TNT 6-2-69, p. 25)
Camp Six Logging Museum (Tacoma); Point Defiance Park (Tacoma);