Overlooking the McDairmid Prairie and the nearly non-existent town of Metropolitan (destroyed in the 1964 flood) from the Blue Slide Road, in the distance is the Rio Dell Bridge that spans the Eel River in Northern California, Highway 101. The location was formerly a company town of 25 homes with a hotel and store for sawmill workers of the Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company organized in 1904 by owners in Michigan and Wisconsin. Company timberlands on Slater Creek were reached by a railroad trestle across the Eel River. The timber was logged out in the 1920s, and the sawmill burned in 1932. Most of the employee housing was moved to Rio Dell by 1937.[2] The railway trestle and 62-room hotel were destroyed by the Eel River flood of 23 December 1964. Photo taken January 2014. Please enlarge for full view.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:44:15 +0000
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