Hi. Sending this to you and the Puget Sound List.... I checked my database on Skagit and didn't find any Blanchard people. I know they exist...but the database does not yet include census records. I then checked "Chechacos All" written and published by the Skagit County Historical Society. and found ...page 92 story about the Blanchard Logging Co.'s cook and joke played on him. ...page 22 "An important man in the surveys and construction of the telegraph line through Washington Territory in 1864 was John Fravel. He was pushing the work through Skagit County, still a part of Whatcom at the time when Calhoun, Sullivan, and others were building the first dikes and riaing the enormous crops of oats, barley, hay, and potatoes. The future possibilities of the country so impressed him that he returned here and in 1871 pre-empted a claim at a place whose post office was long known as Fravel. When much later the railroad came through and named its station Blanchard after the man who operated a logging company there, the inhabitants voted to change the name of the post office." ...page 179 (topic is schools) "One of the earliest on the Samish flats was at Blanchard started in the Cutler home in 1873 with seven pupils from the Stevens and Wood families, taught by the oldest Stevens girl..." ...page 186...division of school district...Blanchard is one of many. ...page 46 picture of exterior of Blanchard mill... No listing of people... ---------- > From: NW Hort Council <general@nwhort.org> > To: BOOKSTORELADY@prodigy.net > Subject: Re: research > Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 7:45 PM > > Darilee, > > Thank you for getting back to me. I found the name Blanchard in a book at > our local library called "Place Names ofo Washington" by Robert Hitchman. I > am fairly certain that my gggrandparents moved to a farm near Blaine in > approximately 1897. Their names were Demory and Angeline Blanchard. Other > Blanchard names to look for are their sons George, Oliver, Alfred, Louis or > Clarence. Apparently Demory worked at a logging camp in Vermont during his > youth. The book I mentioned above states that Blanchard was named for a > local timber owner. There may be a connection or there may not. I would > appreciated any information you think might be relative. > > Thank you for your help. Cheryl > -----Original Message----- > From: bookstorelady <BOOKSTORELADY@prodigy.net> > To: NW Hort Council <general@nwhort.org> > Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 9:07 AM > Subject: Re: research > > > >Excuse my tardiness on answering... I do have some stuff available on > >Blanchard...most of it at my bookstore... Is there a specific name you are > >looking for??? What books have you looked at??? (don't want to spend time > >duplicating research <grin>) > >Darilee > > > >---------- > >From: NW Hort Council <general@nwhort.org> > >To: BookstoreLady@prodigy.net > >Subject: research > >Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 2:45 AM > > > >I am looking for information on a settlement in Skagit County that is named > >Blanchard. An early name was Fravel. Can you provide the history of that > >settlement and who it was named for? Any information would be appreciated. > > Thank you. Cheryl > > > >