Site of Ruby Dam and reservoir on the Skagit River, ca. 1919

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1919
• Subjects: Rivers > Washington (State); Skagit River (B.C. and Wash.); Buildings sites > Washington (State); Homestead; Big Beaver Creek; Beaver Creek
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/ww-swps/id/597

Photographs of the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project constructed between 1918-1961. John H. McMillan was an eastern Canadian who first came into the region in the mid-1880s. Like other early settlers, McMillan was a miner and packer who was lured to Ruby Creek by rumors of gold. Among other jobs, i...