City of Everett Snohomish County, Washington


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City of Everett: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

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General information on City of Everett

  • Feature Type: Incorporated

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Everett

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
City of Everett Official
Everett Official
Port Gardner Historical

 

Origin Notes and History of City of Everett

References to City of Everett that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

EVERETT, the county seat of Snohomish County, is situated on Puget Sound, at the mouth of the Snohomish River. It was first platted on August 22, 1890, as "Port Gardner" by W. J. Rucker and B. J. Rucker. Soon afterward a group of capitalists headed by Charles Colby of New York and Henry Hewitt, Jr., of Tacoma, purchased land for the projection of a large commercial enterprise. The city was enlarged and named in honor of Everett Colby, son of one of the promoters. The pet-name of the place is "City of Smokestacks."

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Related Catalog Titles

A Bibliography for City of Everett, Snohomish County, Washington

Mill town footlights the theaters of Everett, Washington by David Dilgard, Everett Public Library

Published in local editions by historian David Dilgard and the Everett Public Library, Mill Town Footlights: The Theaters of Everett, Washington chronicles the vibrant, bustling entertainment history of a booming turn-of-the-century industrial city. The book details the rise and fall of Everett’s historic playhouses, vaudeville houses, and nickelodeons, illustrating how cultural institutions thrived amidst the grit, smoke, and labor strife of a quintessential Pacific Northwest mill town. Drawing on rich archival photographs and local ephemera, the text traces how early residents sought out sophisticated theatrical escapism as a vital counterbalance to grueling industrial labor. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the rapid emergence of high-culture entertainment in an isolated timber hub demonstrates that rough-edged frontier economies were deeply hungry for civic refinement, using the performing arts to rapidly project an image of metropolitan permanence and respectability onto a raw landscape

iv, 116 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

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Voices from Everett's first century by Snohomish County Museum and Historical Association

Oversize softbound social history of Everett, WA 1892-1994. 217 pages; illustrated with b/w historical photos of Everett and Snohomish County

vii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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Riverside remembers books I, II & III by Greater Riverside Organization (Everett, Wash)

ix, 111 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Memory lanes of Old Everett and its East Riverside by Helmer Malstrom, David Dilgard

xi, 188 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

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Mill town a social history of Everett, Washington, from its earliest beginnings on the shores of Puget Sound to the tragic and infamous event known as the Everett Massacre by Norman H. Clark

A social history of Everett, Washington, from its earliest beginnings to the tragic and infamous event on November 5, 1916, which came to be known as the Everett Massacre

viii, 267 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Last updated: 2017-03-12