| Toutle/Silver Lake Real Estate, Homes and Vacan Land For Sale |
This Toutle and Silver Lake Real Estate home page was created to help you with your future real estate move, it provides free access to all available homes and vacant land for sale in the area, local schools information, home evaluations, a wealth of useful information for anyone selling or buying real estate, local community information and links to surrounding communities. The Cowlitz Homes Link team is dedicated to provide you with the newest trends in the local market using the latest statistics, up-today technology, assist you in meeting your real estate goals, and to exceed your expectations in customer service.
Information For Home Sellers
If you currently own property and are thinking of placing it on the market, this site contains information about selecting the right agent, going through the inspection processes, and receiving a timely market evaluation. Request your free Comparative Market Analysis, (CMA), to see what your home is worth in today's market or request our sellers tips that will help to prepare your home for sale, price your home appropriately, market it effectively and will help you avoid 7 of the most common mistakes sellers make.
Information For Home Buyers
If you are in the market, looking for new home in Toutle or Silver Lake Washington, the Toutle/Silver Lake Real Estate page will provide you free access to available homes and vacant land for sale in the area. If you are out of town buyer, please visit our Cowlitz County relocation guide for local area information or request a relocation package. You can also request our buyer tips which contain helpful information on how to get the best house for your money, how to get the best interest rates and more. |
Toutle and Silver Lake are two small communities a long SR-504 between Castle Rock and the Mount St. Helens Visitor Centers. The Spirit Lake & Toutle River Valley is the name this area has been known as since the earlier settlers arrived here in the late 1800s. In 1891 some minerals-bearing rock deposits were discover by a farmer name Andy Olson. This stirred a mass movement bringing thousands of people to the area looking to strike it big.
People from all over the U.S. came to the area looking for gold, silver and copper; over 400 mining claims were filed between 1892 and 1911. It was a really believed that this was the place to be. A 1895 article in a Chehalis New Paper reported that "it is settled fact that it is one of the richest districts that has been discover since the palmy days of 1849 when the great gold fields of California were first known to the civilized world".
After years of enduring hard work, cold bitter rain and not much luck the majority of miners got discouraged and left. Some stayed settled and eventually swished to the production of lumber (cedar shingles mostly witch was use to build from the little on-room original homestead cabin to stores and later shipped to eastern United States that again gave the area U.S. recognition.
As the one time popular miner and lumber times faded the area was still known as a local gem for visiting, fishing and outdoor excursions. But the May 18 1980, explosion of the now Historic Mount St. Helens once again gave this area recognition this time hitting the worldwide maps. This single event changed Spirit Lake Toutle Valley forever, giving these communities a new way of bringing people to the area from all over the world.
Today thousands of visitors come through the area each summer trying to personally experience the magnitude of the eruption. To help visitors better understand, the thorough destruction, devastation and the slow but amazing recovery of the explosion, national and regional leaders passed a legislation to preserve the area and constructed the following visitors centers Johnston Ridge Observatory, Coldwater Visitor Center, Mt. St. Helens Visitor Center, Forest Learning Center, and Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center that offer from theater presentations, videos, books, and amazing views of the area.
These two small rural communities are very unique in their own way and fast becoming the place to move to if you want some acreage to have a horse, a cow or just have some privacy. Toutle/Silver Lake Real Estate offer mostly of 1 to 10 acres (many with great views of Silver Lake, Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier) with manufactured or stick build home, price could vary from under $100,000 to up to $250,000 for manufactured homes depending on the condition and location or stick build (normally) not for less than $150,000 to up to over $500,000 for a custom build home. |
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