Carl H. Skinner
Westover A.F.B. near Holyoke, Mass.
1942
Barbara Ann Wilson
Dover Delaware
1944

 

Barbara & Carl
married previous day
January 1, 1945
 
 

Just arrived at the Sandpile
March 25, 1948
Our campsite looking south toward Grandview
April 1948
Our campsite with food storage dugout on left
July 1948

 
Uncleared homestead and road to Grandview
April 1948
Looking west - road from Grandview meeting
Alexander Road going to Sunnyside

 
Clearing west field
Spring1948
Uncleared sagebrush - west field
Spring 1948

 
The pond in west field looking south
August 1948
Beans from top of west field looking northeast
Campsite at bottom of field
August 1948

 

Pioneer family: In a modern version of western pioneering, Mrs. Carl Skinner
and her daughter, Mary kathleen, 2 1/2 years old, rake the sand in front of their
small house trailer. There isn't room inside for the ice box and washing machine.
Seattle Times photo
March 1949
 

Making a home: Carl Skinner, G. I. homesteader, drives his tractor
into the fields while his wife and daughter wave goodbye. Skinner
hopes to finish the frame house, in the background, next winter.
Seattle Times photo
March 1949
 

Modern homesteader: Still wearing his leather flying cap, Carl skinner,
ex-Air Force radio operator, looks over a seed drill during spring
work on his homestead a few miles south of Yakima.
Seattle Times photo
March 1949
Improving road to Grandview
Large culvert pipe so pigs could cross under road
Looking south from Skinner home
1953
Sprinklers in southeast field looking west
1952

 
 Kathleen ready to drive
April 1948
 Carl bailing hay
1953

 
 Kathleen and Carl with Rosie
September 1952
 Kathleen (age 10) and David
September 1956

 
 Cow, hogs, geese
1953
 David W. Skinner
Began playing at an early age
March 1957

 
 Barbara and Carl Skinner
Kathleen (age 7 1/2)
 David, Kathleen,
Barbara & Carl Skinner
1982

 

Home of Carl & Barbara Skinner
Corner of Wilson Hwy and Alexander Rd
1958
 

Longtime local resident, Barbara Skinner, celebrated her 80th birthday at
Bethany Presbyterian Church. Barbara and her husband Carl homesteaded north
of Grandview on the Roza in1948 and developed the land into 120 acres of orchard.
January 2002




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