Thomas Aldwell built the Elwha Dam on the Elwha River, approximately 4.9 miles upstream from the mouth of the river. Construction began in 1910 and the dam was completed in 1913. Lake Aldwell is named after him.
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“With wonderful art he grinds into paint for his picture all his moods and experiences, so that all his forces may be brought to the encounter. Apparently writing without a particular design or responsibility, setting down his soliloquies from time to time, taking advantage of all his humors, when at length the hour comes to declare himself, he puts down in plain English, without quotation marks, what he, Thomas Carlyle, is ready to defend in the face of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)