McMurray Skagit County, Washington
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General information on McMurray
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for McMurray
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| McMurray | Official |
Origin Notes and History of McMurray
References to McMurray that document the origin of its place name
MCMURRAY, a town on the shore of Lake McMurray in the southwestern part of Skagit County. The town was platted by Dr. Marcus Kenyon when the railroad came in 1890. The name is in honor of a pioneer settler. (History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties, pages 241-242.)
A Selected Bibliography of McMurray, Skagit County, Washington
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
McMurray-- gone with the trees by Varee A. Bandazy
McMurray—gone with the trees chronicles the grueling industrial timber extraction and inevitable economic decline of an isolated mill town situated around a remote inland lake in the dense lowland forests of northwestern Washington. Bandazy details how the region's formidable physical barriers—specifically the massive, impenetrable old-growth cedar and fir canopies, the rugged, rain-drenched foothills of the Cascade Range, and the waterlogged, marshy terrain surrounding the lake—strictly dictated the margins of early human survival and aggressive resource exploitation. By mapping the immense physical labor required to lay precarious logging railroads deep into the steep, heavily timbered slopes and to process millions of board feet of lumber directly on the shores of Lake McMurray, the narrative highlights the monumental effort necessary to anchor a thriving community in this demanding temperate environment. The profound geographic isolation from major marine ports initially forced these remote lumber camps into a strict reliance on the precise topography of the lake for timber sorting and water supply, completely anchoring their fleeting commercial existence to the absolute exhaustion of the surrounding forest canopy. Ultimately, this local historical record serves as a deeply localized spatial history, demonstrating how the immense botanical density and specific lacustrine geography of this Pacific Northwest frontier fundamentally shaped the fiercely resilient, strictly resource-dependent character of the McMurray settlement before its eventual return to the forest.
McMurray and Medina are former logging towns in Skagit County, Washington
ix, 181 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm
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Last updated: 2024-06-03