Forks’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Forks. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Forks was once inhabited by the Quileute Native American tribe, before they ceded their territory. In 1889, a reservation was created near Forks; that same year the village was burnt down by settler Daniel Pullen. Forks is 12 miles (19 km) from tribal burning areas that the tribes used to regenerate young ferns. The phrase "prairie upstream" from the Quileute language was translated and became the name Forks Prairie.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Forks’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Forks’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewForks Independent Order of Odd Fe…, 1917: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Forks, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Forks is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Forks has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Beaver School in Forks, 8.5 miles away.
Forks and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Forks Independent Order of Odd Fellows picnic, September 9, 1917 - DPLA - 824afe78b8a4298cd9f7760bba0f88ef (1917) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.