Issaquah Depot Museum
Issaquah History Mural
June 2000 photo by David Bangs
This mural, which is now on display in the Depot Freight Room, was painted by
Bill Haddon and commissioned by the King County Arts Commission. It was
dedicated February 11, 1976. The mural is owned by King County Cultural
Resources, and was displayed in the old Issaquah Library building adjacent to
the Depot for 25 years until the library moved to its new facility at the corner
of Front and Sunset. It was moved to the Depot freight room in June 2001.
Left Panel
June 2000 photos by David Bangs
Captions from a diagram provided by the artist:
- Left: Northwest Indians before the white settlers
- Middle: Typical Northwest Indian - Mostly Tulalip, Snoqualmie, Cowlitz and Duwamish.
Notice the cedar bark clothing
- Top Middle: Mr. and Mrs. Bush arrived 1863
- Bottom Middle: Mr. and Mrs. Casto Killed 1864
- Bottom Right: Mr. Andrews discovered coal in 1862
- Top Right: Indians picking hops in Mr. Wold's hop field.
Enlarged detail of 1864 Casto Massacre
Enlarged detail of Indians Picking Hops in Wold field
Middle Panel
June 2000 photos by David Bangs
Captions from a diagram provided by the artist:
- Bottom Left: Bessie Wilson on her pony "Pinto"
- Top Left: Pickering Brothers Farm
- Left: William Pickering, Governor of Washington Territory, 1862 to 1866
- Middle Top: George W. Tibbetts, civil war veteran, owned and operated hotel and stage line.
- Middle Bottom: Street scene downtown Issaquah from 1911 postcard. Looking North down front street.
- Top Right: Issaquah Railroad Station (then Gilman)
- Right: Anti-Chinese Riot, 1885.
Enlarged detail of Pickering Brothers Farm
Enlarged detail of Front Street
Enlarged detail of Gilman Depot in 1890s
Enlarged detail of 1885 Anti-Chinese Riot
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Right Panel
June 2000 photos by David Bangs
Captions from a diagram provided by the artist:
- Top Left: Bunkers and washing Plant of the Issaquah and Superior Coal Mining Co.
- Bottom Middle: Lynching of murderer of coal miner and his family
- Middle: Typical of Coal Miner. Note Kerosene Lamp
- Middle: Typical Lumber Jack
- Middle: W.W. Sylvester founder - Issaquah State Bank and Sylvester's Insurance Agency
- Top Right: Anderson Lumber and Hardware
- Top Right: IOOF - Oddfellows Hall
- Middle Right: The Issaquah Independent
- Middle Right: Issaquah State Bank
- Bottom Right: Fischer Meat Market, founded
- Bottom Right: Lewis Hardware, founded
- Bottom Right: Meadowbrook Condensed Milk Company
(Now Darigold)
Enlarged detail shows a donkey and a coal car on rail tracks at an entrance
to the mine under the bunkers.
Detail of Lynching of Murderer
Detail shows Oddfellows Hall (top), Issaquah Independent (middle), and
Issaquah State Bank (bottom)
Detail of Meadowbrook Condensed Milk Company, and Lewis Hardware
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