Alpine was a village located on the shores of
Lake Cavanaugh, in
Skagit County, Washington
Skagit County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 129,523. The county seat and largest city is Mount Vernon. The county was formed in 1883 from Whatcom County and is named for the Skagit I ...
. A very brief reference to it is found in ''An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties'', by Elizan M. Wallace, published by Interstate Publishing Company, 1906 (pages 469–470). An in-depth book about Alpine and the settlers of Lake Cavanaugh, who began arriving in 1890, was published and copyrighted in 2009: ''Alpine On The Lake'', by Allan Ray Wenzel, published by Classic Day Publishing,
Seattle, Washington
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, 2009 (, Library of Congress Number 2009938776).
There was another Alpine 50 miles south founded about the same time. That village was founded by
Stanford University
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graduate
Carl Lane Clemans and existed from 1894 until 1929. The village had a few homes, a schoolhouse, a post office, and a hotel. After the Stevens Pass Scenic Highway was built a mile away without any connection to Alpine, the village was abandoned in 1929.
References
Ghost towns in Washington (state)
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