SEQUIM — Port Angeles author Teresa Schoeffel-Lingvall will sign copies of her book, Images of America: Olympic Hot Springs, this Saturday.
She will be at Costco, 955 W. Washington St., from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Her book, which includes some 200 photographs, takes a look at the unique history of the area and the gone but not forgotten Olympic Hot Springs Resort.
The book is published by Arcadia Publishing.
The Olympic Hot Springs served as a destination resort in the Olympic Mountains near Port Angeles for 60 years.
Andrew Jacobsen is considered the first to discover the springs nestled 2,100 feet up in the Elwha River valley in 1892, according to the book.
While on a hunting trip in 1907, Billy Everett, “Slim” Farrell and Charlie Anderson rediscovered the springs and began work developing the site of Olympic Hot Springs, hewing logs into wood baths and building a cabin and bathhouse along the hillside.
Everett went on to become proprietor of the enterprise, which opened to the public in 1909.
In the years to follow, cabins, pools and lodges were constructed along the hillside above Boulder Creek.
In 1940, the resort was annexed into the Olympic National Park.
It was closed in 1966.
The book is available at area bookstores, independent retailers, online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at 888-313-2665 or at www.arcadiapublishing.com.