Black Mountain Forestry Center - The Gerdrum Museum

Wayne also dreamed of opening a museum containing items such as photographs and artifacts from the local Mt. Baker Foothills Community. This museum is the Gerdrum Homestead, which was built out of one cedar tree and is located at the Silver Lake Park, Maple Falls, WA. This location includes a large field for a demonstration site of equipment displays and practices, from old school techniques to new technologies. BMFC draws tourists, including families and people of all ages, as well as student groups for extended classroom education. Woodcrafters are invited to sell wood products and demonstrate how they make the products that we all enjoy today. This opportunity can provide an income for displaced loggers and cottage industries that would benefit from the Black Mountain Forestry Center.

The Gerdrum Museum and Black Mountain Forestry Center

Forestry Tours
•Grounds Exhibit
•Gerdrum Museum
•Galen Biery
•Directions
•Lodging
•Camping
•Volunteers

The Gerdrum Homestead is now the home of Black Mountain Forestry Center. On display in the museum are artifacts and displays of how the home might have looked when the Gerdrum Family lived here. The Museum also has a small gift shop featuring books and art items related to the area.

If you'd like to find out more about the early settlers of Whatcom County and how they lived, come visit the museum and tour the grounds! The museum will be open every Saturday & Sunday this summer between 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.


	A Little History on the Gerdrum Homestead....
	Mr. Gerdrum with his wife and small daughter arrived in Whatcom county by boat from Tacoma, in March 1890. Born in Norway, they came looking for a better place to live. Mr. Gerdrum came upon Silver Lake, nestled between the bases of Black Mountain and Red Mountain. Around 1894, he felled one tree of cedar. He rived and split the cut logs into shorter logs of five by twelve inches. These were to make the walls of the house that still stands today. So nicely did this timber split that little labor was necessary to make the logs as smooth as though sawed. At the conferences, the logs were dovetailed and the joints laid in cement making a wall impervious at once to rain and wind. Excerpts from "Reflections of a Heart of a Small Community" Maple Falls, WA 1999


							If you have artifacts related to the history of the area and would like to donate them to the museum, you can download a "Deed of Gift Form" here. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to read this file. You can get the free reader here.

	We would like to extend a big thank you to Duane Dunlap of Nooksack, WA, on loaning us his wonderful collection of artifacts for the museum.

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