History of the Rattlesnake Lake Area
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For lots of historical info visit http://www.scn.org/cedar_butte/cb-main.html. You can easily spend an hour or more here as there are lots of supporting links.

Here's a link to a Seattle PI newspaper story about the watershed area. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/328433_shorttrips23.html

More on the Boxley Blowout. http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2426

Friends of the Cedar River Watershed site features an awesome historical timeline of events for the area. http://www.cedarriver.org/watershed/ch_history.shtml