It received its name from a sawmill on Cedar Mill Creek, which cut Western Redcedars, which were the dominant tree in the area; the mill's pond was near the intersection of 119th and Cornell Road, which could still be seen into the 1960s.
It is often told to children that the sound of the wind blowing through the cedar trees is actually the call of Dzunuḵ̓wa.
In 1899 the Allisons moved to Washington state where Elmer found employment as a shingle weaver, a millhand who created cedar roofing shingles by means of an automated saw — a very exhausting and extremely dangerous profession.
It is made of a single Western red cedar or an Alaska yellow cedar trunk and was started, it is believed, somewhere between 1880 and 1920.
They were able to obtain from a local timber merchant nine seasoned red cedar logs, 18 inches in diameter.
Thuja plicata, a western North American tree in the cypress family
Thuja plicata, the Western redcedar, an evergreen coniferous tree species native to western North America
Thujaplicins (isopropyl cycloheptatrienolones) are series of related chemical substances discovered in the 1930s and isolated from Thuja plicata (western redcedar tree).
Thuja plicata | Thuja | Tiquilia plicata | Thuja occidentalis | thuja | Spathoglottis plicata | Pars plicata | A cluster of ''Nerita plicata'' at low tide at Turtle Island |
Old-growth forests of Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock and Western Red Cedar, reachable by hiking trails, are nourished by many streams and eight small lakes, including Summit Lake.