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Identifier: illustratedhisto00inte Title: An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.) Subjects: Skagit County (Wash.) -- History Snohomish County (Wash.) -- History Publisher: [Chicago] Interstate Publishing Company Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: interior valleys of the Columbiaand Frazer rivers. Anacortes, or Ship harbor, as it was named atthat time, was in early days practicallv a denseforest. The earliest settlerscame aboutl860, andwere Messrs. William Munks, Enoch Compton,H. P. OBryant, Charles W. Beale and Shadrachand Richard Wooten. Others came in later, in-cluding Orlando Graham and sons, Albert L. andFrank, William Allard, T. Henry Havekost,Alfred Rowen, George M. Johnson and a fewothers. In 187(5 Amos Bowman came. It is tothis man above all others, perhaps, that Anacortesowes its existence. He and his wife bought onehundred and sixty-eight acres, built a wharf and astore and established a postoffice and newspaper.His most important and effective work was prob-ably the printing of a map of Puget sound andthe region around Anacortes, predicting its rail-road future. This map he scattered broadcast in1882 and the years following, with noteworthyresults. In 1877, upon the establishment of a post- -2. >no HM > q O2;

Text Appearing After Image: •w YORKPUd^.^ LIB-KART TI1 ~ CITIES AND TOWNS 309 office at this point, as narrated elsewhere, Anacor-tes received its name. It is derived from the maidenname of the Mrs. Anna (Curtis) Bowman. Anacortes first came into prominence in theseventies as a ])rospective railroad terminus, andconcerniui^ this the following account is given hvMr. Bowman in the Anacortes Progress of .Vugust14, 1890: Tacoma came into view as a terminus,as ever\- one knows, from purest accident. Thegreat undertaking of building the Northern Paci-fic railroad encountered the financial storms ofISi. and gut shipwrecked; and Tacoma was theport which saved the enterprise. It is also wellknown by all the okler citizens that the NorthernPacific railway graders had already jjassed Tacomasome six or seven miles across the Puyallup andinto the valley of the Stuck river, when Skookum(Elijah) Smith and General Sprague were dele-gated tu buy up lands at the nearest available pointon Puget sound, at which to make the termin

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