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Historical Map of Snohomish, WA - 1890
Birds-eye view of Snohomish, Washington.
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Snohomish, Washington.
The Gem City of Puget Sound.
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This town and the country in its vicinity was the first settled in
1859. No families came here before 1864. It was made the
county seat of Snohomish County in 1861. The first settlers were
all single men. Before 1872 only some three or four families lived
here. All the really valuable buildings have been put up since
1870. The first school was taught here in 1869. Since 1872
improvements have gone steadily forward and population has increased,
until a year ago over 1,000 people resided in this place and its
immediate vicinity. The building of the Seattle, Lake Shore and
Eastern Railroad from Seattle, the metropolis of Puget Sound, to this
place last year, started a genuine boom. Property advanced from
200 to 300 per cent in value, and last fall the population was over
twice as great as the spring before. During the past winger many
newcomers found permanent homes in the surrounding country, and perhaps
there was no considerable increase of population in the town from
December to April. Now immigrants are coming rapidly, and the town
population is steadily increasing. The population of the town
proper is now nearly 2,000. In Snohomish Precinct, which includes
the town and the region of country in its immediate vicinity, there is
now a population of nearly or quite 3,000 people. For its size and
age this is the best built town in Washington. Should the great
immigration expected the coming fall really reach us, it would not be
surprising to find 3,000 people in the town, 5,000 people in Snohomish
Precinct, an 10,000 people in Snohomish County, before January 1st,
1890.
Now, what has built up the town? What is there here to maintain a
large population? What are the interests and resources of the
place? Besides being the county seat of a prosperous, growing
county, it is the center of immense timber interests and extra and
productive farming lands. Each are mainly found on different
classes of land. Yet more valuable lumber interest center at this
place than at any other point in Washington ; while the town is the
center of more extra fertile bottom land than any other town on Puget
Sound. For many years the logging interests took the lead, the cost of
clearing and improving the farming lands having make such improvements
to go slow at first. Now that stage is past, and farming is a
leading interest, and farm improvements are being rapidly made.
Each year, for nearly twenty years past, many valuable buildings, for
both residence and business purposes, have been erected ; but last year
and this a veritable building boom has been going on. During the
past fifteen months one hundred residences and business houses have been
built. Since January 1st some forty residences and nearly a
dozen business buildings for stores and manufactories have been put up,
some of them very valuable buildings. Should present plans be
carried out, there will be over $200,000 worth of improvements made
during the current year.
The manufacturing interests have also made good progress. During
1889, the total value of all local manufactured products, as lumber,
shingles, sash, doors and blinds, furniture, wood and iron work, will
amount to about $400,000 in value. About two hundred men find
employment here, at present, in the mills and shops, and as carpenters,
masons, painters, and skilled mechanics generally. Many more are
actively engaged as teamsters, in teaming, freighting, etc. About
500 men work in the woods as lumbermen, in regions tributary to this
town, most of whom claim Snohomish as their home. Others are
employed in clearing land, grading, and in making other improvements in
this vicinity. There is also a constant demand for farm laborers,
at good wages. This great amount of labor, continuously expended
from year to year, cannot fail to produce a great effect in opening up
and improving the county.
Snohomish is located on the north bank of the Snohomish river, fifteen
miles from its mouth. It is twenty-five miles, in an air-line,
northeast from Seattle ; by steamboat the distance is fifty miles, and
over the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad the distance is
thirty-five miles. It is expected the main line of this road,
going east over the Cascade mountains, will start from this place,
making the junction here with the branch now built seven miles northward
from this town, and which may this season be extended into British
Columbia, connecting there with the Canadian Pacific Railway. For
fear a junction might not be made here this season, a local company has
been organized, which has a corps of competent engineers now in the
field, locating a railroad from here to the summit of the Cascade
mountains. It is supposed that sufficient local backing can be
secured to build this new road thus farm whatever the Seattle, Lake
Shore and Eastern may do. This guarantees direct communication
from here eastward, by railroad, at no distant day. The distance
from here to the summit will probably be about seventy-five miles,
through a productive region, containing the great agricultural,
lumbering and mining interests, all tributary to Snohomish.
This place is also the head of tide-water navigation on Snohomish river.
An active steamboat trade is down this river, to Puget Sound, and up
this river on smaller steamers, some fifty miles or more, on the
Snohomish and Snoqualmie rivers, nearly to Snoqualmie falls. These
falls are 280 feet high, 113 feet higher than Niagara, and present a
beautiful and sublime object, perhaps the finest in Washington, and
excelled by few of Nature's works anywhere in America. Puget Sound
steamers of 400 tons burden can readily come to Snohomish, up Snohomish
river, on the tide from the Sound. Fifty thousand dollars properly
expended on this river would secure a depth of sixteen feet at high
tide, so that ocean steamers of one thousand tons could be made to come
and go from this place, opening to the business interests of this place
a worldwide commerce, without the necessity of reshipment, as at
present. This improvement will be made at no distant day. |
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1. Blackman Bros.' Saw Mill
Sash and Door Factory.
2. Electric Light Plant.
3. E. C. Ferguson's Wharf
and Warehouse.
4. Exchange Hotel.
5. Maple House.
6. Cathcart Opera House. |
7. Post Office.
8. Odd Fellows Hall.
9. Masonic Hall.
10. Methodist Church.
11. Catholic Church.
12. Hotel Penobscot.
13. Office of Daily and Weekly
Sun. |
14. England Block.
15. Presbyterian Church.
16. Jackson's Wharf.
17. Noll's Shingle Mill.
18. School Buildings.
19. Depot.
20. Sash and Door Factory.
21. Central School Building. |
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