Chehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington Modern City Maps A glimpse of the Bend

A glimpse of the Bend country in its lumber-town heyday

The likeness is reverent

smoke rising from Spanish hulls in the harbor where an old empire surrendered the Pacific before breakfast

The lithograph belongs to that anxious season when broadsides argued for a country still legally whole and visibly fracturing

all set against the Wasatch Range rising abruptly from the valley floor like a curtain pulled back on the desert

Chehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington Modern City Maps A glimpse of the BendChehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington arrives in clapboard and quiet devotion a modest steepled sanctuary standing among the elm shaded streets of a Lewis County timber town, its windows catching the soft gray light of the Cascade foothills. A house of Sabbath worship cataloged in real photo postcards from the rail and rain era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s)