City of Stanwood Snohomish County, Washington

Name: City of Stanwood
Address: Washington

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General information on City of Stanwood

Feature Type: Incorporated

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

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

Name	Description
City of Stanwood	Official
Stanwood	Official

Origin Notes and History of City of Stanwood

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

STANWOOD, a town in the northwestern part of Snohomish County, first settled in 1866 as a trading post by Robert Fulton. Later George Kyle secured the claim and established a postoffice known as Centerville. In 1877, D. O. Pearson built a store, wharf and warehouse. He became postmaster and had the name changed to Stanwood, in honor of his wife's maiden name. (History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties, pages 349-354.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 287 | Origin of Washington Geographic Names

A Selected Bibliography of City of Stanwood, Snohomish County, Washington

A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.

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

Non-circulating [ 1 ]

Biographies · 1st ed · Cascade Writing, Camano Island, WA, 2005
Related Catalog Items: City of Stanwood · East Stanwood · North Stanwood · City of Arlington · City of Granite Falls · Town of Darrington · Oso · Bryant · Silvana · Snohomish County

The Stanwood story Volume Two by Alice Essex

The Stanwood story Volume Two chronicles the grueling agricultural reclamation and isolated pioneer settlement situated at the marshy, flood-prone delta of the Stillaguamish River in northwestern Washington. Essex details how the region's formidable physical barriers—specifically the dense, impenetrable coastal tidelands, the unpredictable, violent winter flooding of the meandering Stillaguamish, and the heavily timbered, waterlogged soils of the valley floor—strictly dictated the margins of early human survival and agrarian expansion. By mapping the immense physical labor required to construct massive earthen dikes against the intruding saline tides of Port Susan and to painstakingly extract deep-rooted old-growth cedar stumps from the damp earth, the narrative highlights the monumental cooperative effort necessary to forcibly convert this dense estuarine environment into highly productive agricultural and commercial tracts. The initial geographic isolation from deeper marine anchorages forced these remote riverine homesteads into a strict reliance on the shallow-draft navigation of the river estuary, completely anchoring their physical survival and early timber economy to the severe hydrological realities of the delta and the precise tidal rhythms of Puget Sound. Ultimately, this civic and historical record serves as a deeply localized spatial history, demonstrating how the extreme estuarine geography, heavy maritime precipitation, and immense physical labor of this Pacific Northwest frontier fundamentally shaped the fiercely resilient, tightly knit, and strictly riverine-dependent character of the Stanwood settlement.

volumes illustrations 28 cm

Non-circulating [ 1 ]

History · 1st Edition · Stanwood news, Stanwood, Wash., 1975
Related Catalog Items: City of Stanwood · North Stanwood · Snohomish County

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Last updated: 2017-06-29