Hockinson history preserves a nearly forgotten local place-name: Petiteville.
A historic caption connected to the Allen family and a lumber-mill site on Kelly Hill says the area was called Petiteville because the Petite family had lived there for many years before the mill was built.
Informal neighborhood names like this often disappear because they were never incorporated towns, official plats or permanent postal names. They survived instead through family memory, directions and captions attached to old photographs.
The same historical page connects Petiteville with the Allen family and the Allen Lumber Company mill site, providing a bridge between family history, logging and local geography.
Petiteville should therefore be described as a historically remembered Hockinson-area name rather than as an incorporated town. Its value is in preserving a layer of community geography that is easy to lose from modern maps.
Explore our Petiteville limited heritage design, inspired by this documented local place-name.
Historical sources
- Historic Allen family / Allen Lumber Company record and caption
- Historic Kelly Hill caption identifying the area as Petiteville and connecting the name to the Petite family
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