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A cut-paper diorama of a large sawmill with a log pond, a flume on trestles and a small locomotive, with forest and a mountain behind. — An illustration of the White River Lumber Company's sawmill and flume as the Seattle Times described them in 1925. Illustration: Enumclaw.com.

The mill that built Enumclaw burned twice, changed hands twice, and closed in the spring of 2003

Elijah Goss started Enumclaw's mill in 1889. The Hansons rebuilt it after two fires, Weyerhaeuser bought it in 1949 and closed it in 2003. What is there now.

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Things to Do

Hometown Harvest 2026 Osceola Country Gardens Event

Saturday

The Hungry Housewives 12th Annual Craft and Vendor Show

October 10th

Pumpkin Succulent Workshop #1

October 11th

Pumpkin Succulent Workshop #2

October 11th

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Where to Eat

Daily Dose Coffee Co. - Enumclaw

Dessert / Enumclaw

The Local Coffee House

Cafe / Enumclaw

Krain Corner

Restaurant / Enumclaw

Wapiti Outdoors

Ice Cream / Enumclaw

Charlie's Cafe

Restaurant / Enumclaw

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Outdoors & River

A moonlit view of a great glaciated mountain face, a towering ice cliff with an avalanche falling, and a line of tiny headlamps climbing the ridge up its center.

The side of Rainier Enumclaw looks at is the one almost nobody climbs, and for years its great wall was off limits

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A vintage style scene of a milk can in a top hat and a peach in a lace veil at a small wooden altar by a foggy mountain lake, with a winding highway behind them and a crowd and a movie camera fading into the fog.

The road over Chinook Pass was celebrated with a mock wedding between Enumclaw and Yakima, in a fog so thick nobody could film it

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A painting of a 1959 one-room schoolroom where children seen from behind watch a glowing television at the front while a school bus waits outside the window in the rain.

The last two one-room schools in King County were both on the road to Enumclaw, and one had a television in 1959

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A mid-century style painting in which rain over the Seattle waterfront turns into snowflakes at a dotted line in the sky, falling as snow on red barns and fields on the plateau below Mount Rainier.

Enumclaw does not actually get more snow than Seattle. It gets twice the freezing nights, and the storms that fall on the line

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Clothing / Enumclaw / For shoppers who prefer browsing an eclectic mix over a predictable rack, this Cole Street storefront offers locally made goods alongside vintage finds and creative novelties. The vendor-booth model means the inventory shifts regularly, which gives repeat visitors a reason to circle back.

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