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The Company Town

FP-0002-SL-S05-085 · slide

Date: 1961-07-01 Probable
Film: Kodachrome
Lab: Kodak
Place: Skagit River hydroelectric project, North Cascades, WA (Diablo/Newhalem area) Confirmed
Tags: company town Skagit 1960s

Rows of identical white-roofed company houses and a water tower fill a tidy planned town in the mountains — a hydro-project village.

On the photoDiablo Dam Officers Row

Research

Planned town + water tower matches Diablo/Newhalem, Seattle City Light's Skagit towns.

Open question

Is this Diablo or Newhalem, WA?

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