Pixler Family

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1881-1967

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Alice Pixler and Milton Moriarty got married in Iowa in 1881 and moved to Washington Territory in 1883 [1]. The family became involved in the lumber industry. Alice’s nephew and his wife, King Pixler and Dorothy Gardner, moved to Kosmos, Washington in 1947. King Pixler worked for the Kosmos Timber Company. The creation of the Mossyrock Dam for the Tacoma City Light Cowlitz River Hydropower Project caused the (around 500) residents of Kosmos to sell their land and receive settlements from the City of Tacoma. With the approval of the 605 foot dam in 1964, the small town, located 16 miles upstream from the dam, would become inundated by water. [2] The Pixlers were one of the land owners that sold their property. Residents of Kosmos had to move out by June 1967, and the town was then demolished. [3] The location of Kosmos is now the Riffe Lake Reservoir, which is utilized for recreation and described by Lewis Talk as, “offer[ing] a chance to float above the once-proud lumber towns. As we fish, swim and boat around the waters, few of us take the time to remember what use[d] to be located along the now flooded riverbed below” [4]

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Written by Lauren Moseman, 2023.

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[1] Rebecca Pixler, “Migration and Myth in one Iowa Family,” March 18, 1993 (Revised 2017), Pixler Family Collection, Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room
[2] Kosmos Doomed: FPC Allows Higher Dam” The Daily Chronicle (Centralia, Washington) · Wed, Nov 18, 1964 · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/25410300
[3] “Mossyrock Dam Work Speeds But, Kosmos Residents Wonder: Where do we go from Here?” The Tacoma News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington) · Sun, Feb 19, 1967 · Page 32, https://www.newspapers.com/image/734908875
[4] Scott, Douglas. “Remembering the Forgotten Town of Kosmos” January 27, 2017, Lewis Talk

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