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April 24, 2008

Old logging town emerges from Riffe Lake

  • Tacoma Power flooded the town of Kosmos in 1968 in order to build Mossyrock Dam.
  • By DAN SCHREIBER
    The Chronicle

    AP Photo/Lewis County Historical Society [enlarge]
    This undated photo shows Kosmos years before it was flooded to create a dam reservoir. Parts of the Lewis County town became visible in late February when the lake level was lowered by Tacoma Power.

    KOSMOS, Lewis County — In the calm flats where two gurgling creeks snake about the northeast banks of Riffe Lake near Glenoma, evidence of a vanished logging town has once again emerged.


     
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