Thorp Mill Town Historical Preservation Society Collection, 1844-2002

The collection consists of newspaper clippings from regional news agencies and correspondence of the early settlers in the central Kittitas Valley. Family histories and genealogies, birth, death, marriage, census records, and local cemetery information are included in the collection. There are extensive Thorp post office records and numerous materials related to the Thorp public schools. The F.C. Porter family, who owned a general store in Thorp during the first half of the 1900s, contributed many of their store records, shipping records, and children’s school books to the collection. Many materials in the collection are photocopies of the original documents. Also included are a dozen rare books given to the mill over the years. Photographs of the early Thorp community as well as the Thorp Mill restoration project are in the collection in both print and negative form.