 Picture Courtesy of Washington State Department of Transportation
This pioneer town founded in 1853 on the donation claim of Louis H. Davis, once was the County Seat and an important stop-off for travelers between the Columbia River and Puget Sound. The sturdy little church, built in 1858 with hand-forged nails and lumber sawed in a water-powered mill, doubled as a school - Claquato Academy. The bronze bell in the belfry came aound Cape Horn from Boston in 1857. In the 1870s, when the railroad by-passed Claquato, most of the town moved 3 miles east to Chehalis.
Washington State Department of Transportation
Washington Department of Parks and Recreation
SR 6, 2 miles west of I-5. Mason County Washington
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