City of Granite Falls, Snohomish County, Washington

City of Granite Falls Snohomish County, Washington

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General information on City of Granite Falls

Feature Type: Incorporated

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Granite Falls

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

Name	Description
City of Granite Falls	Official
Granite Falls	Official

Origin Notes and History of City of Granite Falls

References to City of Granite Falls that document the origin of its place name

GRANITE FALLS, a town in Snohomish County, named from the falls in the Stillaguamish River, where the bed of the stream and walls of the canyon are of granite. (Frank Niles, in Names MSS., Letter 350.) Early traders among the Indians called the place "Portage." William M. Turner and F. P. Kistner settled there in 1884 and the railroad put in its appearance in 1889. On August 4, 1891, the townsite was recorded, the promoters being S. W. Holland and T. K. Robe. (History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties, pages 864-366.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 101 | Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Related Catalog Titles

A Bibliography for City of Granite Falls, Snohomish County, Washington

Pioneers of the Stillaguamish by Dennis Conroy, Carol Husby Ronken

Published by local historians Dennis Conroy and Carol Husby Ronken, Pioneers of the Stillaguamish compiles extensive genealogical records, historical photographs, and pioneer recollections to chronicle the early European-American settlement of the Stillaguamish River valley in Washington. The book details the arduous process of clearing dense old-growth timber, establishing homesteads, and building rudimentary roads and schools along the unpredictable river corridor during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By centering the struggles and daily lives of ordinary families, the text preserves the foundational social fabric of communities like Arlington and Stanwood. A keen insight drawn from the work is how local pioneer histories capture the immense cognitive dissonance of frontier expansion; by meticulously detailing the relentless destruction of ancient forests to plant farms, the text unwittingly reveals how the triumph of civilization for homesteaders was simultaneously an act of catastrophic ecological erasure for the valley's original inhabitants

viii, 149 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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Biographies · 1st ed · Cascade Writing, Camano Island, WA, 2005
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Last updated: 2017-07-02