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Date
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Sunday,
September 2, 2001 |
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City
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73 |
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County:
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Snohomish |
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City Name
History:
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The
county seat city was first named in 1890 by Wyatt J. and Bethel J. Rucker
as Port Gardner after the bay on which it is located. Rumors that
the Great Northern Railroad might build a terminus at the timber-rich
townsite caused the Rucker Brothers to join forces with Tacoma lumber
baron Henry Hewitt, Jr., and a group of eastern capitalists that included
Charles L. Colby and John D. Rockefeller, in the Everett Land Co. In
1890 the city was incorporated under the name Everett in honor of promoter
Colby's son. |
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