Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings - factories

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1852

Tacoma, WA

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Swedish millwright and carpenter, Nicholas De Lin (born in Sweden 1817), established a sawmill at the mouth of Galliher Gulch shortly after his arrival in Tacoma, WA, on 04/01/1852. De Lin first migrated to Petrograd, Russia, then to New York, NY, in 1846, San Francisco, CA, in 1850, and then northward via Portland, OR. The sawmill occupied a plot near what became Dock Street and Puyallup Avenue and was capable of turning out 2,000 board feet of lumber per day. Native Americans living in the area marveled at this bizarre contraption. A drawing of the sawmill was made by J.D.S. Conger, c. 1878. See Herbert Hunt, Tacoma Its History and Its Builders A Half Century of Activity, volume 1 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1916), frontispiece.

PCAD id: 14385