The Big Snow
Posted February 3, 2016 at 5:50 am by Tim Dustrude
Snow on Lopez 100 years ago this month – SJ Historical Museum photo
Here’s this month’s history column from the San Juan Historical Society and Museum…
We wish we had a photo of San Juan Island in The Big Snow of 1916, but featuring this one taken on Lopez Island may jog someone’s memory that they have a photo we can digitize and preserve in the San Juan Historical Museum archives.
During The Big Snow event, the islands were heavy with a wet snow from a storm that reached from Victoria to Seattle and beyond. On February 1, 1916, Seattle recorded its maximum snowfall ever in a 24 hour period when 21.5 inches of snow crippled transportation and commerce.
While other parts of western Washington recorded four feet of snow that day, even San Juan Island got 15 inches.
If you have photos to share of deep island snow from any year, please let us know at www.sjmuseum.org.
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Left to Right: (1)Lopez Methodist Church, later used as school building. Building was moved west about a lot, turned 90 degrees and converted into current parsonage. (2)Weeks’ family barn, currently still standing.(3)House, most likely parsonage. No longer standing. (4)Lopez Congregational Church, built 1904, currently Lopez Community Church.
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