Shirley, Thank you for the offer. Will let you know when I'm coming down to Cowlitz County. It may be a couple of months. I am planning on sticking around long enough to obtain the 1900 property purchase, visit the library in Longview and see if I can physically locate where the house was on the 40 acre parcel. I have a copy of a 1946 Metzker map that indicates the property belonged to the county at that time, so........ I doubt if it still does.. but, it may be a park or some other public place. Harlan Pittelkau Lacey, WA Shirley wrote: > Harlan, I was raised at Carrolls and know exactly where Owl Creek is. If you > head down this way, let me know ... I'll be happy to meet with you and take you > there. (I'm leaving on a trip the middle or end of next week and will be gone a > couple of months, but otherwise should be home.) > > Shirley > Longview > :) > > Harlan Pittelkau wrote: > > > > The property tax records prior to 1889 indicate that they lived about > > 2.5 miles NE of Carrolls on one of two 40 acre parcels. In addition, > > the 1900 Census indicates that the family lived in the Owl Creek > > Precinct. Owl Creek runs through the most northern of the two 40 acre > > parcels and is probably where their home was. > > ==== WACOWLIT Mailing List ==== > Smile! You may find a missing family member TODAY! > Visit the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society Webpage > http://ci.longview.wa.us/information/library/genealogy/lcgs.html