Throughout 2021 the Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back feature portrayed events and people from the Sylvester’s Window cityscape project. With the completion of the Carlyon Fill in 1911, the port area of Olympia was able to accommodate dramatic industrial growth. The Washington Veneer Company was founded in 1924, joining the existing Olympia Veneer cooperative at the northern tip of the Port.
unknown photographer and date, State Library photograph collection, Washington State Archives, image AR-07809001-ph000954
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2021