EHRLICH

The town of Ehrlich was built on land homesteaded in 1886 by Joseph and Anna Theiler from Switzerland. It lay in the valley between Lake McMurray and Big Lake and was reached only by a trail from Mount Vernon. Albert Fisher, also from Switzerland, came in 1897, the Wepplers from the Finn Settlement in 1895, and the Charles McInnes family in 1901.

During the period immediately after the building of the railway, the station was known as Theiler's Spur. The name was changed to Ehrlich when Frank Ehrlich of Seattle built a shingle mill there about 1900. The L. Houghton Company logged in the area and the Nelson Neal Lumber Company had a camp at Ehrlich. In 1902 a school was built, the number of students depending on the work in the mills and the camps.