Lindberg, Washington facts for kids

Lindberg was once a small town in Lewis County, Washington. It's now considered a ghost town, meaning it no longer has people living there. Lindberg was mainly a place for logging, where trees were cut down and processed into wood products. It was located near where the East Fork Tilton River meets the Tilton River, close to State Route 7.

How Lindberg Started

A post office opened in Lindberg in 1911 and stayed open until 1925. Before Lindberg, a train station called Glenavon was set up nearby. This happened when the Tacoma Eastern Railroad was being built from Ashford to Morton.

In 1911, a man named Gustaf Lindberg started a logging camp near the Glenavon station. A logging camp is a place where loggers (people who cut down trees) live and work. His company town also had a shingle mill and a saw mill. A shingle mill makes thin pieces of wood for roofs, and a saw mill cuts logs into lumber.

Changes Over Time

Gustaf Lindberg faced money problems in the mid-1920s and lost his property. However, the logging camp kept going under the name Lindberg & Hoby Logging Camp until the 1940s.

By 1928, there were two train stops near Lindberg. One was East Fork (which used to be Glenavon) to the north. The other was Coal Canyon to the south. Eventually, the name Coal Canyon replaced Lindberg for the area.

Today, you won't see many signs of the old logging operations. The area now has houses and businesses, but they all use a Morton address, even though they are outside that town's official limits.