We are excited to announce that the Museum is once again hosting the Snoqualmie Days Festival on Saturday, August 20th with a full slate of fun activities! Stop by and have a ball at the following:
- Fire Department Pancake Breakfast
- Grand Parade
- Music Stage
- Plein Air Paintout
- Timbersports
- History Comes Alive
- Encompass Kids Field of Fun
- 5K Fun Run
- UNW Model Train Show
- Vendor & Food Truck Rows
- Train Rides
- Music Crawl (on Friday evening, August 19th) at various venues in town
Snoqualmie Days (formerly known as Snoqualmie Railroad Days) is an annual festival that celebrates all things “Snoqualmie”, but the original Snoqualmie Days celebrated a specific and important event – the arrival of the town’s first fire truck.
Before the fire truck, fires were suppressed using two hose carts operated by volunteers. When a fire was detected, a volunteer would run to the fire siren (still heard downtown each day at noon) to summon help. The first volunteer to arrive would grab a hose cart and run to the fire. Despite best efforts, volunteer firefighter and later fire chief, Martin Fringer, recalled that even an “average fire meant a completely burned building.” By the 1930s, efforts to establish an official fire district and raise funds for a community fire truck were underway. In March of 1939, voters passed a $5,000 bonds measure for the purchase of new firefighting equipment.
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