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A painted still life on a dark wooden table: a coil of dried brown hop vine wound around a dented steel milk can, one fresh green hop cone resting on a closed leather ledger tied with ribbon, and a small wooden model of a pyramid-roofed hop kiln with a curl of smoke rising from its top, an unlit brass lamp beside it, with a window behind opening onto flat green pasture, grazing cows and a snow-covered volcano. — An illustration of the plateau's inheritance: the hop crop that burned out, the milk can that replaced it, and the ledger of the insurance company its farmers founded in the hard years after. Illustration: Enumclaw.com.

Enumclaw hops history: before the cows, there were hops

Enumclaw grew hops before cows. Lice and the Panic of 1893 wiped out the crop, and a surviving grower helped found what is now Mutual of Enumclaw.

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The Hungry Housewives 12th Annual Craft and Vendor Show

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Pumpkin Succulent Workshop #1

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Pumpkin Succulent Workshop #2

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Daily Dose Coffee Co. - Enumclaw

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Charlie's Cafe

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A Roman-style mosaic of small stone and glass tiles in ochre, slate blue and deep green: a short, square-shouldered man in a 1920s suit and hat with a star on his lapel holds a folded paper to his chest and holds open a door of iron bars with a ring of keys in the lock, while a smaller figure in a dark coat walks away up a pale road past forested hills, a coal mine headframe, a winding river and a distant city skyline.

Matt Starwich: the sheriff an ex-mayor swore was no citizen

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A stop-motion clay diorama of a small farm town behind a low clay fence with a closed gate, and far outside the fence, at the edge of a green pasture, a short row of white container-shaped clay boxes beside four empty rectangular imprints in the grass and one more box set apart at the edge, with a clay cow standing beside them under a painted sky.

Enumclaw's battery storage moratorium, explained

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A luminous nineteenth century style landscape oil painting of a terraced open pit in forested foothills, its floor filling with still blue-green water that reflects the clouds, old machine tracks grown over with young alder at the edge, and rows of newly planted firs on the upper benches.

John Henry mine, Black Diamond: approved in 2018, never dug

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A Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e manner of a small steep forested hill rising alone from flat farmland beneath a great snow mountain, with a twin-rotor helicopter lowering the steel frame of a lookout tower on a cable toward tiny figures on the summit, and in a band of mist below, the pale shape of a toppled wooden tower behind a small tractor.

Mount Peak fire lookout: gone in 1966, back in 2021

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Charlie's Cafe

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Restaurant / Enumclaw / Charlie’s Café draws breakfast crowds heading to and from the mountains, with portions described as generous and a menu that covers the expected morning staples plus a few larger plate options. Reviewers specifically call out the hash browns, bacon, and the ’half cowpie’ combo as solid choices for a filling meal. The café is a reasonable stop before a hike or after an early start.

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