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Date
Visited:
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Sunday, July
14, 2002 |
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City
Visited #:
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239 |
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County:
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King |
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Visited
With:
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Michelle &
Tacoma Jenn |
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City Name
History:
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Originally
called Titusville after early settler James H. Titus, the town was initially
two separate communities. One was platted in 1884 by Henry L. Yesler,
Seattle's first sawmill operator, and the other in 1888 by John Alexander
and Ida L. Guiberson. Desirous of properly naming its station, the
Northern Pacific Railroad consulted pioneer writer-promoter Ezra Meeker,
the area's leading hop grower. With an eye to the sale of hop starters to
new settlers, Meeker suggested that the "Hop Capital of the
West" be called Kent after England's hop-growing center. |
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