Washington, Lewis County, Centralia. Cafe on U.S. 99, formerly the "Oasis"

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Wester Washington, Lewis County, near Centralia. Farmer shown with his team of which he is most proud. He cleared his land twenty years ago. See negative 20473-E

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Western Washington, Lewis County, near Centralia. Farmer brings his team up from the pasture. Has own small cut-over farm in Shoestring Valley for twenty years

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Washington, Lewis County, Centralia. Railroad yard, looking down from highway bridge. Disaster to the town: the one remaining lumber mill burned down a week before. (Note smoke and wreckage)

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Today in Labor History March 25, 1947: A coal mine exploded in Centralia, Illinois killing 111. American folksinger Woody Guthrie wrote and recorded a song about the Centralia disaster called “The Dying Miner.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4pShnMe6Rk

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