WHEN COAL WAS KING: Lodge 1940

Voice of the Valley explores the history of early 20th-century tourism in southeast King County, tracing how the Green River Gorge area transformed from a coal-mining region into a resort destination. The article details the rise and fall of Franklin’s coal industry and chronicles the ownership of the Green River Gorge Lodge from its origins with Captain Dick Craine and his wife in the 1920s through subsequent owners including the Rudges and Tretheweys.