Everett's North Waterfront is situated between the Snohomish River channel, the Grand Avenue bluff, 21st and 9th Streets. Much of this area is now part of the Port of Everett’s Waterfront Place development. A significant number of lumber and shingle mills operated here, beginning in the 1890s. These mills were constructed on pilings that projected westward from the base of the bluff and extending into Port Gardner Bay. Railroad and lumber industry leaders arrived in Everett to build sawmills and shingle mills. The waterfront grew quickly. Most of the mills were gone by the mid 1970s. Only a few traces of those mills survive today. The Port of Everett was established by vote in 1918. Its public marina consists of 2300 boats in three main dock and storage areas. The central docks were built in the 1960s, the south docks in the 1980s, and the north docks in 2007.
To take this walking tour, visit HistoryLink.Tours.
