Aloha, Washington

Aloha, Washington
Unincorporated community
Railroad trestle of Aloha Mill & Lumber Company, c. 1921
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Coordinates: 47°12′03″N124°10′05″W / 47.20083°N 124.16806°W / 47.20083; -124.16806
Country	United States
State	Washington
County	Grays Harbor
Elevation	59 ft (18 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code	360
GNIS feature ID	1511961 [1]

Aloha is an unincorporated community in Grays Harbor County, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located two miles east of the Pacific Ocean at Beaver Creek in west central Grays Harbor County.

History

Logging crew of Aloha Mill & Lumber Company loading logs onto railroad cars, c. 1921

The community was named after the Hawaiian-language word aloha . ^[2] The name may have been inspired by the song "Aloha ʻOe". ^[3]

Aloha was once home to Aloha Mill & Lumber Company. It was founded by R. D. Emerson and W. H. Dole in 1905. The name, a Hawaiian greeting, was chosen by members of the Dole family, who were landowners and business people in Hawaii. In 1920, Aloha Mill & Lumber Co. successfully bid on a unit of timber near Moclips, six miles away from its mill. For the next two years the company toiled at constructing a railroad to the sale site. Heavy rains during the winter months, 25 to 30 inches a month, delayed the start of logging until the summer of 1922.

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Aloha, Washington
2. Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington geographic names. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 6.
3. Hook, J. N. (June 10, 2014). All Those Wonderful Names. Open Road Media. p. 234. ISBN   978-1-4976-1186-3.

External links

• Media related to Aloha, Washington at Wikimedia Commons