The Cascade Community and Senior Center, Cascade Museum and Wedsworth Memorial Library are working together to develop a Cascade Community Genealogy Tree for the buildings of the Town. We are asking for help to fill in some gaps of knowledge, actually our brains have big holes in them. We know we might have some inaccurate stats.
This is not a history of a business. We are collecting history on the buildings. For example: the building that housed ‘Cash Exchange’ was located at No. 10 East Central Avenue in the vicinity of Ray Pier’s Machine Shop around 1902. Not sure where Ray Pier’s Machine Shop stood.
Then again, we have the ‘Harvey D. Hall Livery Stable’ on the Northwest corner of Central Avenue and First Street erected 1891 by Walter Gorham that was rebuilt and established as Hi-Way Garage. Is this the Meat Market now sold? We would like to know the year the vet shop took ownership across the street, what was originally standing there a long time ago, and then the year Mike took ownership.
There are gaps all over. We would love it if someone would come in and try and fill in some of the gaps. For example, what year was Kitsons store built?? What year did Tom Klock build Tom’s (now the 406)?? What year was the Mormon Church built? Do we have some of our information wrong? We would love some physical addresses for some of the buildings and the year, and approximately at least, when the buildings were built or burnt down.
It has been a journey to collect some of the info we have. Once again, we are not researching the business, we want the history of the building. The current Trout Shop was several restaurants after being the Post Office. What years were some of those in operation? There was a Catholic Church parsonage. Where was it at? What happened to it?
We hope to eventually develop a Platt of each block with the business buildings in place through history so you can see where each building was and how each block has evolved. Everyone is always asking where was the Chinese Café, the jail, Occidental Hotel???? And so on and so on. Well, our long-term goal is to have a Platt you can actually look at and see what buildings were on which block through the Town’s history.
These are just a small tiny bit of lack of knowledge we have. Stop by the library and help us go through the documents we have. Make suggestions. Provide some knowledge. Stop by and find out where the Q & L Saloon was or Ludwig’s Dope. We could be the first community in the state to develop this genealogy history. So be part of history, help us out.