McCormick is an
unincorporated community
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off
Washington State Route 6 in
Lewis County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Washington
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.
The town is west of
Pe Ell and 1.8 miles east of the extinct town of
Walville, Washington Walville is an extinct town in Lewis County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
A post office called Walville was established in 1903, and remained in operation until 1936. The community's name is an a ...
and the Pacific County line.
The
Willapa Hills Trail bisects the area.
History
The town was built in 1897 around a mill for the McCormick Lumber Company, which began operations the following year. A post office, named after the mill's owner, Harry W. McCormick, was established around that time and it remained in operation until 1929.
The mill would be rebuilt after it suffered a near-total loss in 1909. It closed in 1927 as lumber production at the plant had become idle. The town began to be demolished, with materials salvaged by a new owner of the company. A
tuberculosis sanitorium was opened in 1935 and closed in 1941.
Considered a
ghost town
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afterwards despite continual habitation, most of the property would be bought out beginning in 1954 by George Fraser, a retired tailor from
Centralia.
Notes
References
Populated places in Lewis County, Washington
Unincorporated communities in Lewis County, Washington
Unincorporated communities in Washington (state)
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