North Cascades

SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE NORTH CASCADES

CORRIDORS OF SETTLEMENT: SKAGIT RIVER

Marchard

Farther upriver, "J. Marchard" (Marchand?) located a homestead on the east bank of the Skagit. Although no early GLO map exists for the section of river between Marchard's land and Thornton Creek (T35N R11E), U.S. Deputy Supervisor for the GLO, John Parsons, recorded: "There are a number of settlers along the Skagit River, but none in other portions of the township." Oliver Trudell was one of these settlers. In 1895 it was recorded that Trudell resided in a 1-1/2-story log building with a root house, chicken house, and garden nearby. [73] His property, along the western boundary of the township in the area of Diobsud Creek, had an assessed value of $258 in 1905. [74] The other settlers within this surveyed area were actually recorded as squatters by the surveyor himself, Lew A. Wilson: "There are but 3 squatters in the portion I surveyed. Mr. Frank L. Oaks [sic] claims a portion on Section 8 and 17. Earnest and Henry Germain claim the south 1/2 of sec. 30 . . ." [75]