About Castle Rock, Washington

Castle Rock is a city of 2,446 people in Cowlitz County, built on both banks of the Cowlitz River. Cowlitz Indians and Hudson's Bay Company traders used the castle-shaped volcanic rock above the river as a landmark as early as 1832. In 1852 a party led by the Huntington family came west by ox team from St. Joseph, Missouri. They found the lower river already claimed, so they pushed north, and William and Eliza Huntington built a log cabin beside that rock, which William named Castle Rock.

The west side of the river grew first. In 1861 the Military Road from Fort Vancouver to Fort Steilacoom opened there, and stagecoaches brought travelers through town. Then in 1872 the Northern Pacific Railway was finished on the east side, the stages quit the old road, and the town's center shifted toward the tracks. The town was platted on December 12, 1888, and became an incorporated city on June 20, 1890.

  • Mail by canoe in 1854William Huntington became Castle Rock's postmaster on June 1, 1854, just weeks after Cowlitz County was created. He kept the outgoing letters in a tea-box at his house, and twice a month they went downriver by canoe to Monticello, the county seat, with the incoming mail paddled back up.
  • Jackson Inn on Military RoadIn 1854 Henry Jackson built a colonial-style house with a broad porch above Scantigrease Creek, later called Delameter Creek. As the area's largest building, it hosted services of Washington's first Restoration Church. After Military Road opened, stagecoaches stopped there for meals and fresh horses. Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens stayed at the inn, as did Susan B. Anthony and Abigail Scott Duniway on their 1871-1872 lecture tour. The railroad ended its stage-stop days.
  • Two forts never usedDuring the Indian Wars of 1855-1856, settlers built shelters in case of attack. William Cagle put up Fort Cagle near Delameter Creek on the west side of the river, and Henry Jackson built a blockhouse, Fort Arkansas, near the southeast end of Arkansas Creek. No fighting ever reached Castle Rock, so neither was needed.
  • A Mercer Girl's classroomAntoinette Baker came west under Asa Mercer's 1864 plan to bring unmarried Eastern women. U.S. Marshal William Huntington recruited her to teach in Monticello, where she married Edwin Huntington on February 21, 1865. They moved to Castle Rock on April 7, 1876, the year its school district formed, and she taught its 13 first students in her front room. Named Cowlitz County school superintendent in May 1880, she taught at home until the first public school opened in 1883.
  • Sawmills and cedar shinglesIn 1859 William Whittle put up northern Cowlitz County's first sawmill, on Arkansas Creek. Castle Rock went on to thrive as a steamboat port and trading center for valley farms, and its sawmill was the first to turn the region's plentiful Western red cedar into shingles.

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Names on the Castle Rock map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks3

  • Castle Rock City Hall
  • Castle Rock Race Track
  • North County Park

Streets and roads65

  • Ph 10
  • Huntington Avenue North
  • Mount Saint Helens Way Northeast
  • Westside Highway
  • West Cowlitz Avenue
  • Cowlitz Street East
  • Huntington Avenue South
  • Dike Road
  • Front Avenue Southwest
  • Third Avenue Southwest
  • Larsen Lane Southwest
  • Dougherty Drive Northeast
  • Pioneer Avenue Northeast
  • Second Avenue Southwest
  • Cemetery Road
  • Green Acres Drive
  • Warren Street Southwest
  • Roake Avenue Southeast
  • Allen Avenue Southeast
  • Joann Drive Northeast
  • Old Spirit Lake Highway Con
  • Kirby Avenue Northeast
  • Powell Road
  • North Street Northeast
  • Kirby Avenue Southeast
  • Green Acres Way
  • Cowlitz View Drive
  • Maddox Road
  • Fair Lane
  • Buland Drive
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  • Bond Road
  • Mosier Road
  • May Avenue
  • East Cowlitz Street
  • North West Shintaffer Avenue
  • Ace Avenue
  • First Street Southwest
  • Little Avenue Northeast
  • Larson Lane Southwest
  • Fourth Avenue Southwest
  • Aden Street Southwest
  • Hibbard Street Southwest
  • Michner Street Southwest
  • Fifth Avenue Southwest
  • Front Avenue Northwest
  • Cowlitz View Court Northwest
  • Merrill Avenue Northeast
  • Salmon Creek Lane Northeast
  • Walsh Avenue Northeast
  • Woodard Avenue Northeast
  • Eaton Court Northeast
  • Diane Street Southwest
  • Pleasant Hill Road
  • Roake Avenue Northeast
  • Barr Street
  • Balcer Avenue Northeast
  • Brierwood Court Southeast
  • Helton Street Northeast
  • Larue Street Northeast
  • Taylor Lane
  • Leaming Street
  • McCoy Street
  • First Avenue Southwest
  • Sixth Avenue Southwest
  • Old Pacific Highway North

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