One of the most unusual historic Hockinson-area photographs shows an elevated wooden home over a small canyon or creek near a lumber-mill site on Kelly Hill.
The caption identifies the structure with the Allen family and connects the location to the Allen Lumber Company. It also preserves a small family story: a child would drop silverware through cracks in the floor, forcing someone to climb down and retrieve it near the creek below.
That domestic detail gives the photograph unusual life. Historic buildings can otherwise become anonymous architecture; this one carries a memory of how a family actually lived inside it.
The same source links the site to an area remembered as Petiteville, named for the Petite family who had lived there before the mill. Together, the photograph and caption connect housing, family life, logging and a nearly forgotten neighborhood name.
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Historical sources
- Historic Allen family elevated-home photograph and caption, Kelly Hill
- Historic Allen Lumber Company / Petiteville caption
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