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Carl Lane Clemans was born in Manchester, Iowa, on May 30, 1871, the same year the Pacific Northwest frontier town of Snohomish was named and platted. Snohomish is where Clemans would own one of the f...
The city of Lake Stevens in Snohomish County, about eight miles east of Everett, is named after the glacial lake it surrounds. The lake was named, on an 1855 map, for Washington Territory Governor Isa...
Eldridge Morse contributed to the growth of pioneer Snohomish County in myriad ways. Arriving in Washington Territory just after the Civil War, the Connecticut native settled in the riverside town of ...
Snohomish, located in Snohomish County, is a small town of 9,000 residents, picturesquely sited on the slope of the north bank of its namesake river. Flowing northwest, the Snohomish River begins six ...
In February 1884, missing the cold snap that closed the Snohomish River to steam navigation, carpenter John S. White and his family arrived in Snohomish, a small settlement on the river a dozen miles ...
On the last day of April 1865, Mary Low Sinclair and her one-month-old son Alvin, board the small, unfinished steamer Mary Woodruff in Port Madison, Kitsap County, for a journey across Puget Sound and...
On Monday, June 5, 1876, Eldridge Morse (1847-1914) dedicates the Snohomish Atheneum beginning with the words, "Around me are many familiar faces of brave, true-hearted pioneers, who, a few years ago ...
On September 16, 1876, in his new newspaper The Northern Star, underemployed frontier lawyer Eldridge Morse (1847-1914) publicizes the first agricultural fair of Snohomish County, which was held two y...
On May 29, 1886, The Eye reports Gilbert Horton's floating photography gallery to be in Snohomish. The Eye, which is Snohomish's second newspaper, lists under its "Eye-Deas" column that "Horton's floa...
On June 26, 1890, residents of Snohomish, the small settlement on the Snohomish River that is then the county seat of Snohomish County, vote 360 to 21 in favor of incorporating as a city of the third ...
On June 16, 1938, the title "Making Way For Progress" summarizes the viewpoint expressed in an editorial in the Snohomish County Tribune supporting the demolition of the old portion of the high school...
On November 21, 1960, Snohomish County's three-member Board of County Commissioners declares the Town of Lake Stevens incorporated in accordance with a vote held two days earlier. The commissioners' r...