Catalog number:
2009.50.1
Object Name:
Cabins — Leased
Title:
Form 832 United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Special Use Permit
Date:
04/09/1913
Provenance:
Priest Lake history by Denny Jones:
Our family history of vacationing at Priest Lake can be traced back to the early 1900s. My grandfather, Fred K. Jones, was a friend of a Newport man who built a cabin in 1913 on Ledgewood Bay located between Elkins and Grandview resorts. The cabin was called the Newport Club and four men used it as a fishing camp. Granddad would take the train to Priest River, a stagecoach to Coolin, then a boat to the cabin. The fishing must have been good then for I have a picture hanging in our cabin now with fish strung all the way across the front of the cabin. In 1918 he purchased the cabin from this friend and paid $10/year for land rental to the Forest Service.
The cabin was about 30' x 30' structure that had a central room with a screened in sleeping porch on the lake side and cooking/eating porch on the back side. It had a wood stove, ice box, hand pump for water, outhouse and a small garbage pit. It was used sparingly until my dad, F. Kennard Jones, inherited it from his father in 1947.
Our family history of vacationing at Priest Lake can be traced back to the early 1900s. My grandfather, Fred K. Jones, was a friend of a Newport man who built a cabin in 1913 on Ledgewood Bay located between Elkins and Grandview resorts. The cabin was called the Newport Club and four men used it as a fishing camp. Granddad would take the train to Priest River, a stagecoach to Coolin, then a boat to the cabin. The fishing must have been good then for I have a picture hanging in our cabin now with fish strung all the way across the front of the cabin. In 1918 he purchased the cabin from this friend and paid $10/year for land rental to the Forest Service.
The cabin was about 30' x 30' structure that had a central room with a screened in sleeping porch on the lake side and cooking/eating porch on the back side. It had a wood stove, ice box, hand pump for water, outhouse and a small garbage pit. It was used sparingly until my dad, F. Kennard Jones, inherited it from his father in 1947.
Search Terms:
USFS — United States Forest Service
Ledgewood Bay Cottage Tract
Kaniksu National Forest
Ledgewood Bay Cottage Tract
Kaniksu National Forest
People:
Talmadge, Charles M.
Description:
a two—page document copied from the original. It is a special use permit from the Forest service for a cottage from April 9, 1913 granted to Charles M Talmadge that says Lot No. 406... Series..A...Priest Lake for $10.00 in a yearly lease.
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