Charley's 4th of July Purchases
This file appears in: 3. Weeks Point Way
A page from Hiram Hutchinson's store ledger that dates from July 4th, 1873. The second entry is for Charley. It lists: "A Bal 1 Bat 75 cents, 2 bunchier crackers 25 cents"
This file appears in: 3. Weeks Point Way
3. Weeks Point Way
From this vantage point, you can see where Charley dug drain ditches in the 1860s or 1870s. Charley, known at the time as Siwash Charley, is one of the few Indigenous men on island we have record of. (Siwash, from Chinook Jargon, is considered a…