A century ago, Renton's sawmills, coal mines and brick factory produced the materials that built the region. In the 1920s, a group of loggers gathered for a photo around the cookhouse at a logging camp. Renton's manufacturing base attracted hard-working, often poor immigrants from Belgium, China, Wales and Italy. A century ago, Renton's sawmills, coal mines and brick factory produced the materials that built the region. In the 1920s, a group of loggers gathered for a photo around the cookhouse at a logging camp. Renton's manufacturing base attracted hard-working, often poor immigrants from Belgium, China, Wales and Italy.

Renton Historical Society