Eatery Museum

Museum buffs will enjoy visiting The Eatery Restaurant which also serves as our Museum. It houses many antiques and momentos of days gone past. The museum was started in 1983 by Tootsie Buller Clark and Florence Buller McCord her sister. The family has been in the Skagit River valley since 1888, when Matilda Clark Buller came up the Skagit River, paddled in a canoe by the Indians. She started a roadhouse above Marblemount and they say she named Marblemount. You can learn more about this amazing woman on our family & business history page.

Things on Display

There's a story behind each of the items found on the shelves and in the corners and crannies around The Eatery's dining room. Some of the unique items in the Eatery Museum are cream separators, irons, the book, Road House Tales, written by Matilda Clark, letters from the Civil War from the Buller family, a piece of the water flume from the water powered sawmill, pig scrapers, old churns, snow blind glasses, a lard press, a flour mill and numerous other items that are loved and cared for by the Clark family.

The Flag

The Eatery Museum houses a beautiful historical piece of the Buller/Clark history in the American Flag which is mounted above the windows that overlook the dining room. It is in a large frame protected behind glass. The miners and Matilda Buller got together the night before Washington became a state in 1888 and used the materials from Mrs. Bullers milliner supplies (she was hat maker)by trade in Pennsylvania before she came out west). They wanted a flag to fly in Marblemountain on the 4th of July when Washington became a state. Each miner made his own star as not one star is cut out the same as another. In those days our flag colors started out with a white strip, then a red strip etc. Only later did they change the flag to have red striping as the first color.

For Washington State's 100th birthday on July 4th 1989, our family had a four-tiered cake with raspberry filling. The cake was decorated like a flag with red strawberries turned pointed side up, blueberries for the blue background, and bananas cut into stars, and whipped cream as the white strips. M-m-good. We all celebrated with the annual fireworks display and free watermelon, but this time we had yummy cake. A fun time for all.

Contact

Local telephone: 360-873-2250    Toll-free: 800-273-2606    Fax: 360-873-4077

Postal address

58468 Clark Cabin Road, Rockport, WA 98283 USA

Highway address

Milepost 103.5, North Cascades Highway, Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington, USA