This horse is putting up a bit of a fight with his handlers at Hansen Lumber Company. P.C. Hansen founded his lumber company in Centerville in 1906. Later, he established branch yards in other towns in Washington Township. Hansen died in 1935, but his son Earl carried on the business until the 1950s. (Centerville)
Scene from McClure’s Peak Meadow Ranch, 1930s. (Mission San Jose)
Two men stand astride the locally famous horse-drawn railcar that ran between Newark and Centerville. (Newark)
Joe Sarmento poses with his horse and a buck that he shot on a hunting expedition in the Warm Springs hills. Joe is on Main Street in front of the recently remodeled Warm Springs Store, about 1935. (Warm Springs) Courtesy of Washington Township Museum of Local History.
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