Bringing in the Hay, Totem Lake Area, About 1915

This marvelous old photo shows Quintes Franklin “Pop” Lehr using some sort of horse-drawn hay mower about 1915 on a field near where Evergreen Hospital stands today.

The photograph is from the archives of the Kirkland Historical Society, part of a collection donated by Helen Mickelson.

The scene no doubt was a common one during summers and falls in the Kirkland area decades ago, but you just don’t see anything like it today.

Lehr was a neighbor of the Mickelsons
in Juanita – the kids called him Pop. His obituary indicates that he was
a former vice president of the Alaska Yukon Pioneers, having gone to the Klondike in 1898 during the peak of the gold rush. He was 90 when he died April 1, 1954.

Much of today’s Evergreen Hospital is on the former Mickelson land.