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Addy Washington

     
       Birds Eye View of Addy, 1900 (from Map Metrics Oldtowns)

The Crossroads

       Addy was founded by Gotlieb Fatzer, who owned a grist mill on the
       Colville river. In 1890 George Seal established a post office and named
       the town Addy after his sister. Mr. Seal and E.S. Dudrey opened a
       general store and ran the post office. Dudrey, Seal’s brother in law,
       did some milling and in 1898 started another store in town. Addy never
       officially ‘boomed,’ but grew rapidly in 1898-1900 when it became a
       prime railroad shipping point for the Le Roi Mine in Rossland. There
       were also three sawmills and three marble quarries near town. Mr. Fatzer
       gave the original site of Addy to the Seal Family at the time of his
       death. Mrs. Seal cared for Mr. Fatzer in the last year of his life. Addy
       Dudrey was the first white woman to live in Addy. There were many
       settlers around, but most of the men married Native American women. In
       1902 Addy had three general stores, one meat market, a millinery, a drug
       store, a black smith shop, two saloons, one livery stable, two hotels, a
       post office and a depot. The Seals considered Addy a perfect spot
       be-cause it combined good stands of timber, marvelous farmland and a
       soft-water creek
       Main St. Addy, 1914

       Hotel at Addy

Crime Doesn’t Pay in Addy

       In 1898 or ’99 E.S. Dudrey received a phone call informing him that
       two thieves had robbed a man in Bossberg and they were heading south.
       Two suspicious looking men stepped down from the train at about the same
       time Dudrey hung up the phone. They stopped to eat breakfast at the Seal’s
       Hotel and Mr. Dudrey accosted them, but he was not armed. "He found
       himself looking into the barrel of a gun. He was told to get out of the
       way, since he had no choice he had to allow them to escape." They
       were from out of town and fled in the wrong direction across the
       railroad tracks. Mr. Dudrey assembled a group of men and the robbers
       accidentally ran into the river and were forced to swim across. One was
       shot and killed as he was getting out of the river and the other was
       shot in the hand and captured. He was thrown in the Colville jail, but
       because there was not enough evidence to convict him he was turned
       loose. Nobody ever heard what became of him. (Statesman-Examiner
       1975)