About Anacortes, Washington

Anacortes is a city of 17,637 people in Skagit County, at the north tip of Fidalgo Island. Samish and other Northern Straits Salish peoples lived here for thousands of years before settlers began arriving in the 1860s. Amos Bowman moved his family to the island in 1877 and named the town for his wife, Anne Curtis. He promoted it as the natural end point for a railroad across the north Cascades.

The boom came in 1890, when the Oregon Improvement Company put up $15 million in bonds to build the town. About 40 people lived there on January 1, about 500 by the end of the month and 2,000 by the end of February. Then the company collapsed in August 1890, and with no money to pay workers, thousands left. Anacortes was incorporated on May 19, 1891, and it grew instead on lumber, fishing and fish canning. Oil companies built refineries nearby in the 1950s.

“had a splendid dining room with ... waiters in full dress and fine silver and linen for the tables”
HistoryLink.org, on the Anacortes Hotel
  • First called Ship HarborThe place was first known as Ship Harbor and got its name and a post office in 1879. Bowman built a small sawmill in 1882 and started the first newspaper, The Northwest Enterprise, to sell his dream of a New York of the West. Daily trains to Sedro began on August 5, 1890, but the line over the Cascades was never built.
  • William Munks did it allWilliam Munks, who said he was the first permanent resident, became the community's first justice of the peace in 1863, coroner in 1866, postmaster in 1871 and notary public in 1872. He opened its first store in 1870 and still found time to build a thriving farm.
  • Plank streets, a one-day trolleyDuring the boom four lumber mills ran, and so much wood came off the saws that the first streets were covered in thick planks. A brick factory supplied the business district, homes and two fine hotels. The town also built an electric trolley at great cost, but it crossed the island only on March 29, 1891, and never ran again, because there was no money for generating equipment.
  • Arts and the Oyster RunLocal arts patrons started the Anacortes Arts Festival in 1962, and it fills the downtown streets on the first weekend of August. The Oyster Run motorcycle rally, begun in 1981, comes on the fourth Sunday of September and draws an estimated 15000 bikes, making it the largest rally in the Pacific Northwest.

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Names on the Anacortes 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 landmarks7

  • Sharpes Corner
  • Anacortes Community Forest Lands
  • Mount Erie Park
  • Washington Park
  • Cap Sante
  • Fidalgo
  • Whitmarsh Junction

Streets and roads138

  • Commercial Avenue
  • Twelfth Street
  • Oakes Avenue
  • March's Point Road
  • Sunset Avenue
  • Heart Lake Road
  • 37th Street
  • Seventh Street
  • 33rd Street
  • Kingsway
  • 13th Street
  • Sands Way
  • Hillcrest Drive
  • West Third Street
  • 39th Street
  • Bryce Drive
  • South March Point Road
  • Fidalgo Bay Road
  • North Avenue
  • Whistle Lake Road
  • 32nd Street
  • 17th Street
  • Anaco Beach Road
  • Eleventh Street
  • 22nd Street
  • Tenth Street
  • 41st Street
  • Ninth Street
  • 29th Street
  • 34th Street
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  • 30th Street
  • 24th Street
  • Sixth Street
  • 28th Street
  • Skyline Way
  • 14th Street
  • 15th Street
  • Fifth Street
  • Eighth Street
  • 38th Street
  • Glasgow Way
  • Doon Way
  • 36th Street
  • 16th Street
  • Fourth Street
  • 35th Street
  • Stevenson Road
  • 20th Street
  • 26th Street
  • 23rd Street
  • Shannon Point Road
  • 25th Street
  • 31st Street
  • Anacopper Road
  • Third Street
  • 18th Street
  • West Fifth Street
  • Summit Park Road
  • Haddon Road
  • Cypress Drive
  • Reservation Road
  • 21st Street
  • West Avenue
  • West Twelfth Street
  • Schooner Drive
  • 27th Street
  • Mitchell Drive
  • Ohio Avenue
  • 29th Place
  • Ferry Terminal Road
  • Jasper Way
  • Market Street
  • San Juan Hill Lane
  • Clyde Way
  • 37th Drive
  • Loop Road
  • Marine Heights Way
  • East Avenue
  • Padilla Heights Road
  • Yorkshire Drive
  • Longview Avenue
  • Weaverling Road
  • Kansas Avenue
  • Orchard Avenue
  • Saint Marys Drive
  • Hickory Drive
  • Rotary
  • Piper Circle
  • Sterling Drive
  • Marine Drive
  • Alaska Avenue
  • Tyler Way
  • Rosario Way
  • Puget Way
  • Sunset Cove Boulevard
  • Fidalgo Avenue
  • Lake Park Drive
  • Old Brook Lane
  • Thompson Road
  • Island View Place
  • Seafarers Way
  • West Third Place
  • Haddon Lane
  • Cherry Lane
  • Fir Crest Boulevard
  • King Street
  • Cay Way
  • Calvin Court
  • Molly Lane
  • View Ridge
  • 35th Court
  • 35th Place
  • Field Avenue
  • Bay Place
  • Portalis Way
  • Highland Drive
  • 19th Street
  • Guemes Vw
  • Copper Pond
  • Oregon Avenue
  • Airport Road
  • Oakes View Lane
  • West Tenth Street
  • Cabana Lane
  • 42nd Place
  • Quail Drive
  • Erie Mountain Drive
  • Rockridge Parkway
  • Creekside Lane
  • Parkside Drive
  • Macbeth Drive
  • Cranberry Lake Road
  • Vista Lane
  • Shelby Court
  • 26th Circle
  • Hartford Avenue
  • 40th Street
  • Twin Place

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