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Ray Ashe of Sylva brought us this week’s picture. It dates from his boyhood days (around 1941 he thinks) and includes a group known as the “Pole Yard Gang,” pictured at the site of the former pole yard near the mouth of Cope Creek. Those in the picture are, from left, Jean Monteith, Elizabeth Stillwell, Charles Stillwell, Joy Stillwell, Harold Morgan Jr., Charles “Sonny Boy” Yonally Jr., Mrs. Lula Brown, Dorothy Ashe, Carroll Ashe, Fred Conner, Mary Cole Stillwell, Ray Ashe, J.C. Brown and E.P. “Chub” Stillwell. By the time of this photo, the pole yard, which once treated tall trees with creosote for telephone and power poles, had become a log yard. Ashe said logs would be trucked there and then taken by train to the Blackwood sawmill at East LaPorte. The original pole yard consisted of several acres across from what is now Cody’s Hot Spot, Ashe said.
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