City of Arlington, Snohomish County, Washington

City of Arlington Snohomish County, Washington

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General information on City of Arlington

Feature Type: Incorporated

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

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

Name	Description
City of Arlington	Official
Arlington	Official

Origin Notes and History of City of Arlington

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

ARLINGTON, a town in Snohomish County. When the railroad's arrival gave promise of a city there Morris G. Haller called it Haller City in 1888 in honor of his father. Two years later, Earl & McLeod, railroad contractors, purchased the townsite and changed its name to honor the memory of Lord Henry Arlington, one of the notorious "Cabal" cabinet of Charles II., of England. (W. F. Oliver, in Names MSS., Letter 196.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 9 | Origin of Washington Geographic Names

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A Bibliography for City of Arlington, 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

CIRC [ 1 ]

Biographies · 1st ed · Cascade Writing, Camano Island, WA, 2005
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Last updated: 2017-02-06