This photo from Roslyn museum "Echos of Our Past" shows a group of  coalminers from this area. In the early days of 20th century a high percentage of the miners were Croatian emigrants.

These coalminers on strike from Roslyn are sitting on the Capital steps in Olympia city. In 1932 they were protesting against the working conditions in the Roslyn mines as being unsafe. Union leadership was often in the hands of Croatians and meetings were conducted in their native language, in Croatian.

U rudarskom mjestu Roslyn (država Washington) oko 1910. godine su više od pola stanovnika bili Hrvati, ugavnom rudari i jasno, svi muškarci. Drugi s lijeva je "mladić Tony Bailey" , za koga se dvije godine poslije ustanovilo da je u stvari malda žena Glorija.

In the minig town Roslyn, Washington, around 1910 more than a half of the inhabitatnts were Croats, mostly miners, practically exclusively men. The second from the left is a young "boy Tony Bailey", who turned to be a young woman Gloria, as was discovered two years later.

Life was harsh in the mining towns, but even though hazards exsisted and tragedies occured often, Croatians, like other people in the town, enjoyed their life. Pictured is the Roslyn tamburitza orchestra Živila Hrvatska (Hail Croatia) in 1903, composed of men who were themselves mainers.

The photo was taken at the "Echos of Our Past" museum in Roslyn, Washington.

This is one of three large cemeteries for Croatian only in a little quaint mining town Roslyn, located about two hours drive east of Seattle in the State of Wasington. It is maybe the best example of the Croatian pioneer colony in the USA, and a bitter reminder of Croatian contribution to America. One woman married three times and three times lost her husbands to the miners. This cemetery in its silence throughout its eternity simbolizes the inevitable destiny of each individual emigrant.

Once a grocery store on the second street in Roslyn, is now Junque Palace, a second-hand store specializing in old stoves, miner's hats, old typewriters, scythes, various tools and age-old necessities. The owners of the Junque Palace Mary and Joe Andlar collected 319 old miner's petroleum lamps ina 40-year period. Photo was taken in 1982.