Monte Cristo

The first plat for Monte Cristo, was filed on this date back in 1893, in Cleveland, Ohio.  Why Cleveland?  Monte Cristo was a company town owned by some fellows from Cleveland, a couple guys named Colby and one man named Rockefeller.  This first plat did not deter a second group to file a plat in Washington State.  Predictably this lead to lawsuits and counter suits and two distinct parts of town, the upper town (from the Cleveland plat) running up Dumas Street to the concentrator and lower part of town on the flat above the South Fork of the Sauk River where the rail yard and depot were located.  Of course Monte Cristo turned out to be a great money loser for all involved, as it was too remote and the weather and forces of nature too extreme.  Oh and the silver and gold wasn't plentiful enough to be worth the bother.  By the Great War most the original town had returned to the earth.  Tonight's viewing pleasure photos from the upper and lower town.  Note that Peabody's Garage is the last original structure in Monte Cristo.