Henry Thode

In 1890, farmer Henry Thode built his cabin by Phantom Lake. 

The area was used by Japanese immigrant families; an original cabin was moved in 1989 to Larsen Lake Blueberry Farm.

Originally the Kelsey Creek drainage basin included what is now Phantom Lake. 

 Henry Thode redirected the Phantom Lake outlet to Lake Sammamish, 
resulting in reduced water flow to Kelsey Creek and massive erosion.

In March 1886, German immigrant, Henry Thode, purchased two tracts of land near Phantom Lake and built a house in 1894.  It was a two-story nine room log house made with hand-hewn logs and shingled on the outside.  

Henry and his wife Emilia intended to farm, raise cattle and sell milk to the coal workers at Newcastle. 

 However, Henry was declared insane later that year and committed to a mental institution.  

He died two years later (1986) and Emilia remarried Jacob Kamber.  

https://eastsideheritagecenter.org/blog/2021/11/18/larsen-lake-cabin