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Date
Visited:
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Tuesday,
February 20, 2001 |
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City
Visited #:
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31 |
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County:
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Skagit |
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Visited
With:
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Michelle &
High School Jen |
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City Name
History:
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Settled
in 1878 by David Batey and Joseph Hart, who sold 40 acres to Mortimer Cook
in 1884. The latter laid out a townsite and named it Bug. In
wrathful indignation the other settlers threatened to add the prefix
"hum" to the town sign. The townswomen suggested - but misspelled
- the Spanish word cedro, meaning "cedar," as a more
appropriated name that tied in to nearby Cedar Mountain. As the head
of navigation on the Skagit River, the town prospered, particularly during
the Mount Baker gold rush days. In 1889 the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads established a junction north of Sedro, and P.A. Woolley platted a townsite there bearing his surname. To mitigate
the high costs of duplicate governments, the adjacent towns were
incorporated as Sedro-Woolley in 1890. |
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