Title
Etta Owens Interview
Document Type
Book
Contributor
Suncadia (Resort), Suncadia Fund for Community Enhancement
Files
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Description
Etta Owens describes her family's arrival in Roslyn, Washington, circa 1889. She talks about relocating with her family to Ronald, Washington, for work at the No. 3 Mine. She offers a history of Ronald, describes Roslyn, and speaks about logging, mining, schools, and businesses in the area. She also talks about the arrival of the first African Americans to work in the mines, and the existence of a black church. She comments on Prohibition, the Roslyn Bank robbery of 1892, the temperance movement, the 1916 snowstorm, Native Americans, and religion in the Ronald area.
The cover image shows Lidge Williams standing on the railroad tracks leading to the Northwestern Improvement Company mines in Cle Elum, Washington. Williams was one of many African Americans employed by the mines or railroad in the Cle Elum/Roslyn/Ronald area in the 1930s.
Publication Date
3-18-2014
Recommended Citation
Owens, Etta, "Etta Owens Interview" (2014). Roslyn, Cle Elum, and Ronald Oral History Interviews. 78.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/roslyn_history/78
Approximate Date
circa 1970s-2000s
Subject
Oral history, Coal mining, Ronald (Wash.), Roslyn (Wash.), African Americans--Washington (State)
Rights
Educational use only; no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner.
Language
English