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# When Stumps Went Viral
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/when-stumps-went-viral-ftpfpd/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:58:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:08:30.000Z
- Description: For Northwest settlers, stumps were both a challenge and a kind of regional status symbol.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 7, Episode 4, #ZZZ_Episode_c3c7b887-cb30-47b8-81eb-61d559584755, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

Settlers came to the Northwest and began lopping down the forests, then they had to deal with old-growth stumps. Some homesteaders were called “stump farmers” for their post-cutting fields. They dug them up, they blew them up. But sometimes they took a different course. Some massive stumps were turned into housing and put to other uses. Thus the regional phenomenon of the Stump House.