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Kent -- Thumbnail History

The city of Kent, located in King County 15 miles southeast of Seattle, was home to some of the earliest white settlers in King County, and was the first city in King County to incorporate outside of ...

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Kirkland -- Thumbnail History

The city of Kirkland, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Washington east of Seattle, is named for Peter Kirk (1840-1916). Kirk was a British steel industrialist who originally envisioned Kirkla...

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Krupp (Marlin) -- Thumbnail History

Krupp, located in Grant County about 25 miles northeast of Moses Lake, is Washington's smallest town. It is situated in a small valley along Crab Creek, and is bordered to the north and south by canyo...

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La Center -- Thumbnail History

The town of La Center lies on the north bank of the East Fork of the Lewis River in northwest Clark County, some 16 miles north of the county seat at Vancouver. Cowlitz Indians inhabited a broad range...

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La Conner -- Thumbnail History

Located in western Skagit County, La Conner was once county seat and most populous town in the Skagit Valley. Bounded by farmland, the Swinomish Channel and the Swinomish Indian Reservation, it was an...

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Lacey -- Thumbnail History

The City of Lacey is located between the City of Olympia and the Nisqually River in northeastern Thurston County. Originally known as Woodland and also sometimes referred to as Chambers Prairie, the c...

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Lake Forest Park -- 1912 Promotional Brochure

This is the complete text of a promotional brochure written in 1912 by real estate developer Ole Hanson (1874-1940). The brochure extols the wondrous virtues of living in idyllic Lake Forest Park, loc...

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Lake Forest Park -- Thumbnail History

Lake Forest Park, located along the northern tip of Lake Washington, is one of King County's first planned communities.

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Lake Stevens -- Thumbnail History

The city of Lake Stevens in Snohomish County, about eight miles east of Everett, is named after the glacial lake it surrounds. The lake was named, on an 1855 map, for Washington Territory Governor Isa...

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Langley -- Thumbnail History

Langley -- often referred to as the "Village by the Sea" -- is a South Whidbey Island town situated on a bluff overlooking Saratoga Passage and the Cascade Mountains. Located in Island County, it is ...

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Leavenworth -- Thumbnail History

The town of Leavenworth in Chelan County occupies a spectacular location at the confluence of Wenatchee River and Icicle Creek, over which loom peaks of the North Cascade Mountains. The Wenatchee Vall...

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Liberty Lake -- Thumbnail History

The city of Liberty Lake, Spokane County, is 16 miles east of downtown Spokane and about a mile west of the Washington-Idaho border. Fur traders and missionaries began arriving in the early 1800s, but...

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Long Beach -- Thumbnail History

Long Beach, in Pacific County, one of Washington's oldest seaside resorts, has drawn visitors, first from Oregon and later from all over the Northwest, to its 28 miles of open beach, clam digging grou...

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Longview -- Thumbnail History

The city of Longview is located at the confluence of the Cowlitz and the Columbia rivers in western Cowlitz County, 66 miles upriver from the Pacific Ocean and 67 miles south of Olympia, the state cap...

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Lynden -- Thumbnail History

Lynden is located in the northwestern part of Whatcom County, approximately 15 miles north of the county seat, Bellingham, and only five miles south of the Canadian border. The area was long inhabited...

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Lynnwood -- Thumbnail History

Lynnwood and its neighborhoods grew up because of transportation, first around the Interurban rail system, then Highway 99, and finally Interstate 5. Each new mode generated a new kind of development ...

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Mabton -- Thumbnail History

Mabton is a small farming community located south of the Yakima River, midway between Yakima and the Tri-Cities. Founded in the late 1800s, it became a city in 1905 just as the community was rebuildi...

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Maltby and Neighbors

Maltby and Neighbors, a book issued by Snohomish Publishing Company in 2012, relates the early history of previously undocumented areas in South-Central Snohomish County including the small communitie...

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Mansfield -- Thumbnail History

Mansfield is a town in Douglas County, about 75 miles north of Wenatchee. It sits on a plateau in the heart of Central Washington wheatlands in a region once known as Big Bend Country. Settled in 1889...

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Maple Valley -- Thumbnail History

Maple Valley, a King County community nestled 10 miles southeast of Renton within the sheer-cliffed Cedar River valley, grew from its outskirts inward toward its center. Originally a hodgepodge of hom...

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Marysville -- Thumbnail History

Marysville is located in the west-central part of Snohomish County, five miles north-northeast of the county seat, Everett. Although the origin of its name has been the subject of considerable debate...

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McCleary -- Thumbnail History

McCleary is located at the southern end of the Olympic Peninsula in eastern Grays Harbor County, 27 miles east of Aberdeen and 15 miles west of Olympia, the state capital. The surrounding area is hea...

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Medical Lake -- Thumbnail History

Medical Lake is a city in Spokane County 15 miles southwest of Spokane on the shores of the lake that bears the same name. The region's tribes believed the mineral-rich lake had curative properties. T...

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Medina -- Thumbnail History

The small city of Medina in King County is blessed with an almost pristine location on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, a short bridge crossing (ferry ride in earlier years) away from the pleasur...

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