Clayton Page 4

This particular Album is dedicated to memories. Not only Deer Park, Loon Lake and Clayton but mostly the people in and around and some memorable occasions. On the light side.

This Certificate shows the successful completion of a several month process. Bill Sebright, Juan Thompson, and Mark Wagner completed the application for the Governor's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Don and Lorraine Ball along with Bill Sebright gave testimony before this council. On June 27, 2003 they testified as to the qualifications of Clayton School to be placed on the State and National Historic Registers. The Hisory and Signifance sections of the application can be seen under the heading "Old Clayton School" at the beginning of the Web Site. The plaque presented to the Deer Park School District by the Clayton Histoical Society showing Nationional Historical Register status can be seen at the north entrance to the Clayton School.

The Clayton School, totally restored with a rededication by the Deer Park School District..

Larry Lewis along with one of his sisters attended the Clayton School rededication. Most if not all of the Lewis family attended this school over a period of years. The children of Hayes and Elva Lewis are as follows Kenny,* Bob,*Betty,* Juanita, Virginia, Tommy,* Jack & Jean,* ( twins), Dale,* Shirley, Dorothy Joe,* Larry,* & Louise (twins), and Jimmy. Fourteen in all,. .* Denotes deceased

Loon Lake is the playground of North Spokane County and Southern Stevens County. In the early years there were several resorts. With Morgan Park and Cedar Beau Bay converted to private ownership the one remaining major resort is Granite Point.

Here are but a few of the active members of the Clayton Deer Park Historical Society. At this point we as a group are running full speed ahead. Wally Parker, 2nd from right, is the Managing Editor. He is a prolific, skilled, articulate writer. He single handedly writes and produces a booklet called "Reports to the Clayton Deer Park Historical Society. He has three editions published with another in the hopper. In addition our President Bill Sebright (Far left) instigated a Website. Bob Clouse (2nd from right) was selected as Webmaster. So now our Website with the total cooperation of this team is a work in progress and we hope will be for years to come. Another concept that keeps appearing from time to time is a Clayton Museum. Though a number of donations and memorabilia have been collected over time, we truly have need for a building to hold meetings and show our now hidden treasures. All we need are a few younger energetic folks to give us a hand and an Angel wouldn't hurt matters either.

There were top notch moulders at the Clayton Terra Cotta Works, Leno Prestini. Frank Frey, Mr. Sater, Mr. Hansen and Tony Marconi. It was Tony Marconi who took Leno under his wing and was Leno's mentor.

Here is truely a historic class, known as the 49ers. I thought this was the first Class pictures in color. But the 1940 and 41 Class was in color.

Jacob and Nellie Gibson raised all his family on one little Homestead. L to R. George and Margarete Gibson, Jake and Jenevive Gibson, Emil and Jenny Gibson. Bert and Selma (Gibson) Erickson, Catherine (Gibson) and Ed Garvey and Paul and Ella Gibson.

This painting hangs on the wall of the main floor of Deer Park's City Hall. It depicts the railroad station That use to beone block south of Crawford on Main. It was moved to just south of Rosauers.

Originally the Wild Rose School now the Wild Rose Community Center

Grandmother Baker and Carol out for a buggy ride.

Gladys Clouse doing dishes about 1916. Youngest sister of Royal M. Clouse, still living at 97 years of age.

A welcoming by the driveway to the Estate of Warren and Rainy Nord. The story of This couple can be seen in a Clayton Album 5, the Nord family story.

Mr. Ben (Pinky) Renner was Straw Boss over the entire crew of the Brick plant.

The Treasurer of our CDPHS, Mr. Mark Wagner accepts a more than generous donation from Taffy Long of the Clayton Drive In. The $1008 were the proceeds from the breakfast put on by the Clayton Drive In on Clayton Brickyard Day, August 4, 2007. Chuck and Rita French, Clayton citizens, made a more than generous donation of $500.

Warren Nord escorts Robert Clouse to the old Clayton Grange Dinning Hall. It's been 60 years.

The Zimmerer farm, a wonderful example of farms in the area.

A Dairy Herd on Wildrose Prairie south of Deer Park.

This spike buck needs fattening before hunting season.

Elva Kendig Clouse with her little Sister in North Dakota around the time our Vetrans were returning from WW1. She latter settled on a farm near Clayton with her family untill the death of her husband in 1971. This torn and tattered photo was restored by Dennis Ottmar.

This is the Big Foot Valley Homestead Map. From the files of the United States Bureau of land management by Peter Coffin whose Parents and Grandparents were very early Settlers in Big Foot Valley. The Coffin family still occupies the same farm their ancestors owned so many years ago.

The one student I know for sure that survives to this day is Eddie Olson, far upper left. A current picture of Eddie is directly above a few pictures. He's front and center and sharp as a tack.

The year by year History of Clayton WA.

Emil and Margarett Tobeck converted their home into a very small grocery store directly accross the street from the Clouse house. They managed to keep the doors open for several years. Then rented the store out to Larry Clouse but it was to little to late. The patrons were few and far between. The store closed and that was the last store in Clayton since the eary 60s.

The begining of the the end of Claytons heyday. The Day the Merc burned to cinders in 1957. This photo taken by Larry Clouse.

OLD MEMORIES JUST WON'T DIE

This reveals a great deal prior to the 1908 fire. The land has yet to be cleared where the Clayton Burger Inn now stands. At the far end of an ungraveled muddy quagmire main street stands the Wind pottery plant. Cord wood is stacked high to fire the kilns. This is perhaps the very best photo available showing the town layout from the water tower.

Two members of the Clayton Bloomer girls baseball team were Wanda Joyce and Faril Fay Parker, older Sisters of Editor Wallace Parker. Taken in 1950 or 51 along side their Williams Valley log home.

At the risk of mere conjector, In the picure directly above in the upper right hand corner is a two story white building that could be the Hotel managed by Olga Westby. This photo is of Olgas Hotel with she, fellow employees and any number of patrons. Many laborers stayed at Hotels with room and board untill they could build suitable living quarters

Clyde and Pal fiddled while Clayton Burned