Birds eye view of North Broadway at W. 11th St. — circa 1913 — #6179_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
This view to the southeast shows newly built homes and streets, including the serpentine switchbacks in the middle foreground. In the center of the photograph is St. Joseph's Hospital, in the background is downtown Aberdeen, with the banks of the Chehalis River outlined by the tall burners of four mills. Thanks to William Smay for adding information.
Thanks to Terri Middleton, who notes: "Broadway, one of Aberdeen's widest streets, was built specifically to ferry workers to the Weatherwax lumber mill at the foot of the street on the Chehalis River and back home again. Market Street, Aberdeen's other wide street, was built for the same reason but for American Mill further up the river. Both mills were in operation in the late 1880's when most of the area was still covered in timber and Aberdeen's population was fewer than 1500."
