Author: Leslie

This is an Ames Lake community newsletter from 1997. Some issues (road cleanliness, beach keys) are still with us today.  

In July of 1973, the Department of Ecology landed a helicopter on the lake to test the depth and quality of the water. It was quite an event!  

On February 8, 1954, power finally came to Ames Lake. People put away their kerosene lamps, hand-winding alarm clocks, and battery radios. They brought in refrigerators, televisions, electric stoves, power tools, and vacuum cleaners. Mutual Power and Light A one-man cooperative, Mutual Power and Light, was able to do the

Ames Lake was first logged in 1927 by Siler Logging. The lake had been used as a holding pond. Logs were kept there until they were loaded onto railroad flatcars and sent to the mills. In 1946, railroad pilings were still left in the lake, as well as hundreds of

John Ames came to Tolt in the early 1900s. John Ames’ son Arthur was killed while working on the railroad. His father named Ames Lake in his honor. In those days, there was no electricity or running water in the area. Most families simply journeyed here for the day or