[1] A community began in the late 19th and early 20th century around a sawmill site under operations by the Rock Creek Lumber Company.

[2] By approximately 1930, the sawmill, due to financial hardships seen around the region, closed and the town began to wane.

A myth exists mentioning that one house, split by the county line, required one student to attend classes at a Pacific County schoolhouse while their sibling was enrolled at a school in Lewis.

The situation was resolved by the creation of an early Pe Ell school district that overlapped the county line.

[2] This Lewis County, Washington state location article is a stub.