Nagrom, Washington
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Nagrom is a ghost town in King County, Washington, United States.
History
A logging company town, Nagrom was located in the Green River watershed between Kanaskat and Lester. The town was built by the Morgan Lumber Company and named after Elmer G. Morgan, the company founder and owner ("Nagrom" is "Morgan" spelled backward). The site was chosen for its access to timber and suitability to build a sawmill and mill pond. In 1910, Morgan petitioned the Northern Pacific Railway, which operated the rail line out of Puget Sound and up over Stampede Pass, to build a spur into the small town. The railway balked, but Morgan persisted and eventually the railway relented. The spur into town was built in 1911. A post office was established that same year, along with a telephone and telegraph exchange.[citation needed]
Between 1914 and 1918, rivers and streams flooded in the city of
From 1911 to 1924, the Morgan Lumber Company continued to work the area for timber and to run the sawmill at Nagrom. In 1921-22 the population topped out for this town with an estimated 450 residents. In 1924, however, the company went out of business, presumably due to a post-World War I fall in lumber prices. Logging continued, but at a slower pace, as trucks began replacing railroad in the logging industry. The U.S. Forest Service began managing the forested land in the area in the 1930s with the help of the Civilian Conservation Corps.[citation needed]
Decline
The city of Tacoma acquired the water rights on the Green River c. 1910. In the first half of the 1950s, the city's utility arm, today's
References
- ^ "Nagrom". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Carlson, Linda (2003). Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. pp. 22–23.
- ^ John A. Phillips, III (March 20, 2002), Spelled in Reverse: E. G. Morgan and a Town Called Nagrom, retrieved November 9, 2010