Bellingham, WASHINGTON - Roeder School

Description: Bellingham, WASHINGTON - Roeder School - ARCHITECTURE: Captain Henry Roeder (1824 - 1902) is often heralded as the most influential of the figures that shaped European-American settlement and development in the towns that became Bellingham. Born in Herstadt, Germany, Henry Roeder moved with his family to Vermillion, Ohio in 1830. He began his career as a sailor on the Great Lakes, before traveling in 1850 to pursue economic interests in California. Given the rising demands and prices for lumber in San Francisco, however, (lumber was needed to rebuild parts of the city destroyed by fire) they decided instead to devote their efforts to establishing a sawmill in the Puget sound. Roeder was actively involved in the consolidation and industrial development of property around Whatcom Creek and Bellingham Bay. In 1853, Roeder purchased 93 acres of land along Chuckanut shoreline, from which he operated the Chuckanut Stone Quarry (later the Roth Stone Quarry). Property containing coal seams was sold by Roeder, Henry Hewitt and William Brown to the San Francisco-based Bellingham Bay Coal Company in 1854, which opened the Sehome Mine the following year. Roeder also staked donation land claims of 1600 acres in Whatcom (reaching from present day Holly to G streets) in 1855, and owned property on Whidbey Island and other San Juan Island. Henry Roeder engaged in some of the earliest political and judicial institutions in the area, serving on Whatcom County's first grand jury in October 1854, and as county commissioner in 1855-56, 1857-61 and 1874-75. He was also among the individuals who drafted a charter to incorporate Whatcom and Sehome in October 1883. This Divided Back Era (1907-15) features a postcard of the school named after this early developer. The card is in good condition. Edward H. Mitchell. San Francesco, Calif.

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Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2025-01-09T04:41:08.000Z

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