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Schroder Member
Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 6696 | TRs | Pics Location: on the beach |
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Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:35 pm
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Old-time Monroe was a condensed-milk powerhouse
Quote: | About 1919, the two metal stacks were replaced with a single 150-foot-tall concrete stack.
A decade later, the factory closed.
In early 1942, another group bought the dormant plant to process flax, declared a strategic material for the war effort.
At 1 a.m. on March 23, 1944, just three weeks after starting operations, spontaneous combustion is suspected of igniting 600 tons of flax stored in the building. By dawn, the site was a smoldering heap. All that remained was the concrete stack. |
and back in the 1970's it was climbed by a few member of Everett Mountain Rescue and became their rendezvous point for rescues up Highway 2
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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6900 | TRs | Pics
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Cool, Randy. It's a popular meet spot for hiking, and I always have wondered about what it was originally.
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