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Doty, Washington

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A post office was established in Doty inside a store on November 2, 1900 but the building was lost in a fire. Reestablished inside the historic Doty General Store, the post office was once moved to a postmaster's house in 1957 where it operated until shifting back to the store in 1973. By 2000, the
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Chauncey A. Doty built a sawmill in the area around 1900, and the community that sprang up around it was named after him. Doty once boasted the largest sawmill in Lewis County.
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The Doty-Dryad area was once known as North Prairie and the lands were first settled in 1852 by Joseph and Karolina Mauermann, Austrian immigrants who traveled by
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fir and teemed with abundant wildlife, including cougars which caused issues for farmers attempting to raise cattle. The closest post office at the time was in
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This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the
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River Run that has been held since 1978. The event consists of entrants buying or building water crafts and floating down the
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Doty post office no longer offered mail delivery and mainly provided post office boxes for rental.
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is an unincorporated community located 1.3-miles directly west of
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Unincorporated communities in Lewis County, Washington
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Unincorporated community in Washington, United States
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Unincorporated community
Doty is located in Washington (state)
Doty is located in the United States
46°38′04″N 123°16′40″W / 46.63444°N 123.27778°W / 46.63444; -123.27778
Country
State
Washington
County
Lewis
Time zone
UTC-8
Pacific (PST)
DST
UTC-7
zip code
Area code
360
Washington
Dryad
Pe Ell
Washington State Route 6
wagon train
Missouri
old growth
Olympia
Doty Bridge
National Register of Historic Places
Pe Ell
Chehalis River
Rainbow Falls State Park

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