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The “Big Rock” at 48th Ave. S and S. Ferdinand St. was once the meeting place of Valley Residents. This Photo of the Big Rock, with an...

RVHS Photo 1993.001.0006 This photo of the Toby building was taken about 1930. It was built by Simeon T. Toby in 1903, on the Southeast...

Columbia City has had its share of manufacturing companies over the years. One of the more noteworthy was the Heater Glove Company,...

What put the car in the ditch? This photo depicts the Genesee Streetcar on a day when it was not going anywhere, at least not for a...

This was the sweetest place in Columbia City in the 1920’s and ‘30s. It was a regular stop for all the school kids on their way to and...

The location of the grading in progress was on Orcas Street in Hillman City, almost a block west of Rainier Avenue in front of St....

Bill Phalen was an organizer. He was also a professional baseball player, a politician (Columbia City's mayor), and he started Columbia...

The above photograph was one of four donated to the Historical Society last year that contained an image of the second Brighton...

The date was April 30, 1910 when a runaway coal car hit streetcar #102 on the "Seattle, Renton & Southern Ry." streetcar line.  Two...

Smith M. Wilson started in the dairy business on Beacon Hill in 1916. There were many small dairy farms throughout the sparsely settled...

Taylor's Mill shown in the photo was located on Lake Washington, one mile south of Rainier Beach near the present Seattle City limits. ...

In this early Rainier Valley photo, taken about 1905, car number 20 of the "Seattle & Renton RY" pauses at Rainier Beach Station which...

The members of the Modern Woodmen of America drill team are standing at attention, axes in hand, posing for the photographer. They are...

The female high school athletes are closing out basketball season and looking toward the track and softball teams gearing up for spring....

Dances, masquerades and a rose show were among its first-year events. The Mount Baker Clubhouse is 85 years old this year. (1999). The...

Charlie Fletcher was the last surviving motorman from the Rainier Valley Street car line. Before he passed away in October of 1994 at the...

This photograph shows Dugdale Baseball Park at Rainier Avenue and McClellan Street, home of the Seattle Indians of the Pacific Coast...

The holidays bring back many memories of family celebrations and the way things were when we were children. Neighborhoods also have...

The date is 1902. Car #20 of the Seattle, Renton & Southern RY., traveling southbound, has just crested the hill between Genesee and...

South Seattle has many schools with interesting histories. Our children attend newer, rebuilt schools, such as Muir and Whitworth, or...