Cohassett Grays Harbor County, Washington


Mapped Location

Cohassett: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Cohassett

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Cohassett

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

Name Description
Cohassett Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Cohassett

References to Cohassett that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

COHASSETT, a town in Grays Harbor County. It was named about 1892 by John Wooding, a banker of Aberdeen, Washington, in memory of a pleasant visit he had paid to the summer resort of Cohassett, Massachusetts. (Postmaster, in Names MSS., Letter 461.) The officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company have undertaken to change the name of Ashby in Kittitas County to Cohassett, after the same eastern city. It is not likely that the postoffice authorities will approve two such names in the same state.

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Last updated: 2017-02-12