Old Woodside Store Day - May 6, 2018, noon until 4 p.m.

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Old Woodside Store Day - May 6, 2018, noon until 4 p.m.

The San Mateo County Historical Association and its docent organization, the Woodside Storekeepers, will present Old Woodside Store Day, a FREE family event on May 6, 2018. Visitors will be invited to experience life in the 1880s, as activities will focus on the history of the Woodside Store and the redwood logging that occurred in the region.

The Woodside Storekeepers will demonstrate and invite the public to use a two-man saw, make shingles with a mallet and a froe, wash clothes with an old-fashioned machine, twine rope, churn butter and create rag dolls to take home. The whole family is invited to compete in pie-eating and seed-spitting contests. The band 27strings will perform bluegrass music throughout the afternoon.

In 1854, Mathias Parkhurst and Robert O. Tripp built the Woodside Store. Redwood loggers working for local sawmill were its main clients in the early years. While Parkhurst died a young man, Tripp lasted as proprietor of the Store until his death in 1909. He was an institution of sorts by then. He even served as a San Francisco County Supervisor, before there was a San Mateo County. Under Tripp the Store became a stagecoach stop, post office, the site of San Mateo County’s first lending library and, in general, the areas chief community gathering place.

The Store is located at 3300 Tripp Road (corner of Kings Mountain Road and Tripp Road) in Woodside. For information, go to www.historysmc.org or call 650-299-0104.

Sarah Phelps
Development Associate
San Mateo County Historical Association
2200 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063
Ph: 650.299.0104, ext. 224 | Fax: 650.299.0141
sarah@historysmc.org | www.historysmc.org
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