City of Gold Bar Snohomish County, Washington
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General information on City of Gold Bar
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Gold Bar
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Gold Bar | Official |
| Gold Bar | Official |
Origin Notes and History of City of Gold Bar
References to City of Gold Bar that document the origin of its place name
GOLD BAR, a town on the Skykomish River in Snohomish County. The region was named by prospectors in 1869. The town by the same name was platted on September 18, 1900, by the Gold Bar Improvement Company. (Postmaster of Gold Bar, in Names MSS., Letter 566.)
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A Bibliography for City of Gold Bar, Snohomish County, Washington
The Sky Valley. Volume 2 a photographic history by Buddie Williams
Authored by local historian Buddie Williams, The Sky Valley, Volume 2: A Photographic History continues the visual documentation of Washington's rugged Skykomish River corridor through a rich collection of historic photographs and archival ephemera. The volume captures the dramatic transformation of towns like Index, Sultan, and Startup as they evolved from raw logging camps and mining outposts into established, tight-knit communities framed by the Cascade Mountains. Through vintage images of steam locomotives, timber mills, high-water floods, and local school children, the text portrays the relentless daily labor required to carve civilization out of a steep, flood-prone river valley. A keen insight drawn from the work is how visual archives of mountain valleys expose the inherent fragility of industrial frontier settlements; the recurring imagery of swollen rivers and swept-away bridges reminds readers that human infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest was always engaged in a precarious, high-stakes negotiation with an overwhelmingly powerful natural topography.
28 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Last updated: 2017-02-09