About Aberdeen, Washington

Aberdeen is a city of 17,013 people in Grays Harbor County, where the Wishkah River flows into the Chehalis. The Lower Chehalis people had fished, gathered shellfish and hunted around the bay for thousands of years before Robert Gray sailed the Columbia into it in May 1792. In 1868 Samuel and Martha Benn traded their homestead upriver at Melbourne for land her father, Reuben Redman, owned where the two rivers meet.

The Benns built their holdings up to about 740 acres. They offered land grants to newcomers who would build canneries and sawmills. George W. Hume of Astoria took one in 1873 and opened a salmon cannery on the river that fall. In 1884 Benn hired a surveyor to lay out his land, then recorded a town plat. That June a Michigan lumberman, A. J. West, arrived, and his sawmill was running a month later. Aberdeen was incorporated on May 12, 1890. In 1895 a spur that Aberdeen and Hoquiam residents built together linked the town to the Northern Pacific.

“I lived upon my ranch at Melburn [Melbourne] for nine years and having become acquainted with the country and believing that some day there would be a great city on Grays Harbor and conceiving the idea that the place for that city was where this Wishkah river empties into the Chehalis, I located where the city of Aberdeen now lies”
Samuel Benn, The Coast
  • Almost called HeravilleWhen Benn went to record his town in 1884, he meant to name it Heraville. Hume showed him a letter by an early settler, Jean Stewart. She pointed out that Aberdeen in Scotland sits at the mouths of the Don and the Dee, just as this town sat at the mouths of two rivers. Benn changed the name to Aberdeen. Other town histories credit the Aberdeen Packing Company of Ilwaco, which bought Hume's cannery.
  • The Port of Missing MenBy 1900 the town was full of saloons, brothels and gambling halls. So many people were murdered that Aberdeen came to be called "The Port of Missing Men," and some knew it as "The Hellhole of the Pacific." Billy Gohl was said to have killed at least 140 men and dumped them in the Wishkah River. In the end he was convicted of two murders.
  • Sawmills from 37 to 9The Great Depression hit Aberdeen hard and cut its major sawmills from 37 to 9. Loggers had cleared most of the area by the late 1970s, and the mills that were left shut down in the decade that followed.
  • Home port of the Lady WashingtonThe tall ship Lady Washington sails from Aberdeen. She is a reproduction of a smaller vessel used by Robert Gray, the captain who first brought an American ship into the harbor, and she appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
  • Kurt Cobain Memorial ParkThe city opened Kurt Cobain Memorial Park in 2011, near where the musician lived in Aberdeen. Its plaque carries a line from his song "Come as You Are."

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Names on the Aberdeen map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks8

  • Aberdeen City Hall
  • Herbig Heights
  • Bel-Aire
  • Broadway Heights
  • East Aberdeen
  • North Aberdeen
  • Pilgrim Heights
  • South Aberdeen

Streets and roads118

  • East Wishkah Boulevard
  • East Wishkah Street
  • West Wishkah Street
  • West Curtis Street
  • South Boone Street
  • Sumner Avenue
  • Simpson Avenue
  • South West Boulevard
  • Westport Road
  • Hanna Avenue
  • Port Industrail Road
  • West Marion Street
  • North Broadway Street
  • Southwest Front Street
  • Conger Street
  • West Scott Street
  • South Lewis Street
  • West Sixth Street
  • North Maple Street
  • West Griffith Street
  • East Marion Street
  • West Second Street
  • West First Street
  • West Huntley Street
  • Aberdeen Avenue
  • Pacific Avenue
  • Cherry Street
  • West Fifth Street
  • West State Street
  • East First Street
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  • Coolidge Road
  • Harding Road
  • Wishkah Road
  • Bay Avenue
  • Basich Boulevard
  • Oak Street
  • South Evans Street
  • Rice Street
  • Herbig Avenue
  • Duffy Street
  • Morgan Street
  • Chilton Road
  • Macfarlane Street
  • Young Street
  • Alden Road
  • Ninth Avenue
  • Haight Street
  • West Perry Street
  • West Fourth Street
  • West Farrell Street
  • Fordney Street
  • Fillmore Road
  • Wooding Street
  • East Curtis Street
  • Taft Road
  • Laura Street
  • Bench Drive
  • Third Avenue
  • Grays Pointe Lane
  • East State Street
  • Johnston Street
  • Valley Road
  • East Scott Street
  • East King Street
  • Earl Street
  • East Heron Street
  • River Street
  • Port Industrial Road
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Pioneer Boulevard
  • Anderson Drive
  • Bel Aire Avenue
  • Baila Way
  • East Market Street
  • East Terminal Way
  • East Second Street
  • West Cushing Street
  • Myrtle Street
  • West Lovett Street
  • First Avenue
  • Lafayette Street
  • Riverview Drive
  • Meander Way
  • Rainier Street
  • Thomas Street
  • Calhoun Road
  • Randall Street
  • East Third Street
  • Baldwin Street
  • South Shore Boulevard
  • Highland Drive
  • North North Street
  • Ash Street
  • Hoban Place
  • Isabel Way
  • Hagara Street
  • Aberdeen Lake Road
  • West Market Street
  • Shamrock Drive
  • West Twelfth Street
  • North Thornton Street
  • West Harriman Street
  • Ninth Avenue Extension
  • West Lindstrom Street
  • Terrace Avenue
  • Tenth Avenue
  • West Eighth Street
  • East Huntley Street
  • Hillcrest Avenue
  • North Division Street
  • Harborview Drive
  • North Fairfield Street
  • Roosevelt Street
  • Commerce Street
  • North Evans Street
  • Sixth Avenue
  • East Griffith Street
  • Eighth Avenue

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