This story written with the help of an old pioneer, Pauline Strickler Crane. The town was brought to my attention by her. She and family once lived there.

Springdale was a little bit of everything, farming, logging and mining. As far as history goes back the town was started by Deer Park Lumber Company, and in its early days was a thriving town. The mining was a little east of town towards Hunters, they were called the Cleveland mines and mined lead, silver, cadmium and several other minerals.

At one time there were "Wanted Dead or Alive" posters of Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp and Doc Holiday for claim jumping there. That was back in the late 1890s. The lime and clay/sand mixture for the bricks were also mined just outside of Springdale. The Phoenix Railroad ran from the mines to Springdale and on to Spokane.

The town at one time had a creamery with a doctor’s office on the top floor, granary where farmers could take their crops into be ground and sacked, several saloons, mercantile, barbershop, hotel, with food served (boarding house) type, train stop, blacksmith, livery stable, post office and a sawmill. Mr. James Barney ran the sawmill, the Ketchum and Cooney families ran the creamery and mercantile, Mr. Grover Bunn the barbershop, Mr. James Presho the granary. People by the name of Biglow, VanDissel and Ragsdill ran most of the rest of town.

There was a Marshals office and I believe a one cell jail. One unique feature was a tavern/saloon for Indians only the other for whites. Most of the larger homes and buildings in Springdale were built by a Mr. James Morton.

There are still several of the original buildings in town today, and the Springdale Community Center has entered them on the historical register.

Just outside of town the small cemetery has legible stone markers going back to 1892, and a number of wooden and unmarked graves that could date back even further.