Church in Cosmopolis — circa 1900 — #L360018_3
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Cosmopolis
Thanks to Sam Talley, who notes: "The First Methodist Church was built in 1886 by Rev. McDermoth Booth, a 'circuit preacher'. He rowed a boat up the Chehalis River and adjacent sloughs to find and salvage logs which he'd tow back near the church site. A sawmill owner contributed one days' use of his mill and the employees donated one days' labor to mill the lumber for the church construction. The total out of pocket cost was $1,500. My grandmother Mila Jane Halverson Bowen who lived at 611 F St. (see image #4691_1) attended this church most of her life until it was razed in 1963. She passed in 1968. Her brother Ed Halverson (once the mayor of Cosmopolis, see image #11091_1) also attended this church. In the years just before the church was razed I was the youth counselor and borrowed a Santa Claus suit from Sears to be Santa for the annual children's Christmas party."
