The Payne family.
The Payne family is documented on the valley map from land and family records. The original archive has no family history for them, so their pictures are kept together here. 2 newspaper clippings.
In the old papers
Clippings of newspaper articles that name the family, in the order they were printed. Each opens the story retold from it. All the clippings ↗
View photograph ↗Logs piled at the mill promise a building year in Arbon
A pile of logs at John Payne's sawmill in the spring of 1915 told Arbon's correspondent a building year was coming, and the paper's columns followed the canyon mills and the new houses through the season.
From: Logs piled at the mill promise a building year in Arbon ↗
View photograph ↗John Payne, the mayor of Arbon that no one elected
An American Falls paper made pioneer John Payne the mayor of Arbon in fun, and over the next two years its columns showed a retired Short Line engineer at work as dry farmer, sawmill owner, justice and would-be county commissioner.
From: John Payne, the mayor of Arbon that no one elected ↗Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.