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Snoqualmie Falls
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Muhammad Shaukat (shaukatmi)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2004-06 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-07-05 8:53 |
| Viewed: 224 |
| Points: 8 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
A brief history of Snoqualmie Falls is in order since this is one of the star attractions of our state of Washington.
Several thousand years ago, when the glaciers receded, they left a fertile plain near Snoqualmie Falls. When Native Americans arrived, they found a bounty of edible bulbs, roots and berries on the prairie. Deer and mountain goats were plentiful.
Though there were no salmon above the falls, the upper Snoqualmie River became a seasonal rendezvous and meeting place as trade among native peoples increased. The Snoqualmie Tribe (a subgroup of the Coast Salish) established a camp at the base of Mount Si. They also established villages at Fall City and Tolt (Carnation).
Snoqualmie is the English pronunciation of "sah-KOH-koh" or "Sdob-dwahibbluh," a Salish word meaning moon. As a spiritual place, it gave birth to many legends. One tells of "S'Beow" (the beaver), who climbed into the sky to bring trees and fire down to earth. The Native Americans who roamed the valley were known as people of the moon.
White settlers began to arrive in the valley by the early 1850s. Long before, the falls became a tourist destination; pioneer women would edge as close to the falls as they could while friends held on to their dresses to keep them from falling. Jeremiah Borst was the first permanent white settler in the Snoqualmie Valley and is known to some as "the father of the Snoqualmie Valley."
Josiah Merrit ("Uncle Si") built a cabin at the base of a local peak in 1862 (the peak became known as Uncle Si's mountain -- now Mount Si). He raised vegetables and hogs and kept an orchard. According to local historians, he was a rugged man who sometimes hauled bacon to the large settlements.
To do so necessitated hauling the load on a sled to the river, canoeing downstream, strapping the load to his back and climbing down the 268-foot falls, hiking several miles, and then canoeing the rest of the way to Everett or Seattle.
By 1877, there were several logging operations in the region. In early days, logs were floated over the falls and down the river to Everett and Puget Sound. By 1889, entrepreneurs funded and built a railroad (the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern) into the valley, opening up timber resources to the world market.
In 1889, the town of Snoqualmie was platted by Charles Baker, a civil engineer. He also constructed an underground power plant at the falls in the 1890s (those original generators are still functioning today). The power plant resulted in electricity and jobs for locals, and soon a small company town was established at the falls. In 1911, a second powerhouse was constructed.
I retrieved this photo from my archives and lost most the photographic data. Used my old Minolta camera and used my archaic scanner to digitalize it. Thanks for visiting. |
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- kross1
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Hi Muhammad,
Nice shot of this scenic landscape. The composition is good and the detail and colors are very nice. Good work.
Regards,
Kevin
Beautiful place, Excellent capture. Superb landscape.
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- trekks
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Good pov and vertical composition to capture the essence of waterfall cascade and the surrounding, especially the large space of water as FG. People having fun is featured nicely here.
tfs, bill
Hi Muhammad,
Nice capture of the falls. Really color and detail and the note is great.
Jason.
