Keyword(s): Charles LeWarne
George Brackett is customarily regarded as the founder of Edmonds (Snohomish County) as well as an early logger in Bothell. Born and raised in eastern Canada, he logged there and in parts of the Unite...
The city of Edmonds rests along a shoreline and the hillside beyond about 15 miles north of Seattle. Native Americans of the Snohomish people occupied coastal and river areas surrounding the site, and...
Edmonds is a waterfront city in South Snohomish County with more than 40,000 residents. Three events a few years apart in the mid twentieth century played key roles the city's thriving cultural life: ...
Missouri T. B. Hanna, often known as "Mrs. M. T. B. Hanna," was born in Texas and grew up in Arkansas. She moved with her husband and three children to Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, in 1882 but...
Alice U. Kerr was elected mayor of Edmonds in December 1924, one of the first women mayors in Washington. She served a single two-year term (1925-1927) occupied with issues of a small, growing city, ...
The Love Israel Family, the largest and most prominent communal group in the Washington to emerge during the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, was located in Seattle from 1968 to 1984 and in rural Snoho...
Stevens Memorial Hospital in Edmonds was first dedicated January 26, 1964, the culmination of a private campaign, later turned public, to place a full-service hospital in the growing communities of Ed...
On August 23, 1884, George and Etta Brackett file a plat for the first townsite in Edmonds. The plat includes provisions for a mill site, water, and parks. It is the first plat filed in a spot that w...
On August 14, 1890, Edmonds, Washington, becomes incorporated when Washington Secretary of State Allen Weir files the order creating it as a fourth-class town. The process leading toward this result ...
On February 10, 1910, two rival Edmonds newspapers, the Review published for five years by Missouri T. B. Hanna, and the Tribune, published since 1908 by W. H. Shumacher, merge under Shumacher's Trib...
In late March 1914, Allen M. Yost (d. 1915) opens an automobile garage on the corner of 5th Avenue and Dayton Streets in Edmonds. This new building and business will remain one of the most identifiabl...
On December 21, 1917, a ship flying the Russian flag unexpectedly steams into Elliott Bay. The steamer
On Sunday morning, May 20, 1923, the automobile ferry City of Edmonds makes its first run from Edmonds to Kingston, inaugurating a new route across Puget Sound. As regular service begins, the ferry ...
On December 2, 1924, Alice U. Kerr (1858-1949) is elected mayor of Edmonds on December 2, 1924. After two recounts Kerr, a write-in candidate, defeats incumbent Mayor Matt Engels by a margin of 161 t...
On October 28, 1933, the townspeople of Indianola vote to create a port district at the small seaside village that faces Port Madison Bay in Kitsap County. The main reason for creating a port is to ma...
On March 19, 1951, the Board of Kitsap County Commissioners formally establishes the Port of Poulsbo. Coincidentally, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Pacific Coast Cod...
On June 1, 1951, boiler fires go out at the Quality Shingle Company mill for the last time. The Quality mill was the last operating mill along a shoreline that once had at least 11 mills operating. I...
On February 18, 1958, voters in the small, upscale community of Woodway in Snohomish County go to a private home to vote on incorporating as a fourth-class town. The measure passes with 99 in favor an...
On May 19, 1958, a small art exhibit opens at the Surf and Sand Marina, a notable building on the Edmonds waterfront in Snohomish County north of Seattle. Its sponsor is the Edmonds Coterie Club, whic...
On January 26, 1984, the Love Israel Family, Washington's largest and best-known countercultural commune, gives up all its Seattle properties in an out-of-court settlement. Founded on Queen Anne Hill ...
On January 4, 2007, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception is one of several events whose purpose is to formally dedicate the Edmonds Center for the Arts. Previous events -- beginning with a Cascade...