ALPINE
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ALPINE |
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NAME: Alpine COUNTY: King ROADS: 4WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in winter, hot in summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer, early fall before snow |
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Near Skykomish REMAINS: Nothing. Alpine Advocates Website |
Alpine, Washington began as a depot location named Nippon on the Great Northern Railway in 1892. In 1910 a sawmill began to operate and the depot location became a town. The post office was named Alpine because the post office already had a Nippon post office in central Seattle. In 1914 the Great Northern Railway renamed the depot to Alpine to conform with the post office name. In 1920 the mill was renamed the Alpine Lumber Company. Thus the town is known to history as Alpine. The mill closed in 1929 and the town was abandoned. The family of Mary Daheim lived in Alpine. In 1991, just a year before the 100th anniversary of the first depot, Mary Daheim began to write a series of best-selling fictional mysteries that take place in an Alpine that continued to survive and grow after the mill closed. These books brought new attention to the town of Alpine 60 years after it was abandoned. Others, following the route of the Great Northern Railway, sought the location of the actual town and found it in 2008. Interest in Alpine continues to grow from these 2 different, but not mutually exclusive, points of view. This page includes old photos and new photos of Alpine, and recent photos of the revival that is going on in the town of Skykomish (6 miles from Alpine) and in the upper Skykomish River Valley. Submitted by: Tim Raetzloff |
 Alpine Banquest Courtesy Tim Raetzloff |
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