Luedinghaus Lumber Company was in business ca. 1908 to ca. 1929.
Dryad is a community west of Chehalis in west central Lewis County. It is one of many lumber towns that were once on the Chehalis-South Bend branch of Northern Pacific Railway. The town was once two miles south of the present location, and was called Salal. It moved when Luedinghaus Brothers of Chehalis built a sawmill at the present site. Its name, supplied by Northern Pacific Railway officials, at the suggestion of W. C. Albee, who was superintendent of the South Bend branch -- is mythological. It is for the wood nymph or dryad, who lived in oak trees. Albee figured that the dryad might get used to living in the local fir and cedar trees.
Kinsey Brothers Photographs of the Lumber Industry, 1890-1945
