This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3BC.2ACE/228.464.474.606 Message Board Post: Dear Neal, I wrote an article for the school paper in the late 1970s about Hutton Settlement. I hope you do not picture the place as oppulent and glamorous. I would describe it as more functional, like on a farm, very large grounds, with brown fields in the summer. I had classmates from there but never visited until I did the article and I was very glad I think, of the article. I wrote very warmly of the place and the people who lived there and I think it was good for all of us kids at school to know more about it. I do not think by the way that the classmates referenced were orphans. Hutton Settlement is still Hutton Settlement and one still has to say where the live and it's kind of a long undescriptive name for kids to use, no? The nearest township is Millwood and the largest industry back then and now, was a pulp and paper mill. If it was in existence then, your relative would have heard the mill whistle for sure. They also would have heard trains on the railroad at night, a little far away but it's a valley and sound carries. Hutton Settlement is located in the western valley of Spokane not too far from the Spokane River. If you stood in front of Hutton Settlement you could look up and see a mansion far up on the hill. Some people would drive half way up the dirt road to the place and park, sort of a lover's lane. Behind Hutton Settlement, are (were?) forested hills of dry pine, brown-eyed susans, buttercups, and beyond the hills prairie. I believe kids from there would have been part of West Valley School District. If the following schools were open in the 20s your relative probably went there: Pasadena, Millwood (middle school), Argonne Jr. High, West Valley High School. Here's the URL if you don't have it: http://www.huttonsettlement.org/about.htm I sincerely hope this helps.