About Everett, Washington

Everett is a city of 110,629 people and the seat of Snohomish County, built on a peninsula between the Snohomish River and Port Gardner Bay. The Snohomish people lived here long before any settlers came, and George Vancouver landed on a beach here on June 4, 1792, naming the bay for one of his men. Dennis Brigham, a carpenter from Worcester, Massachusetts, became the first permanent settler in 1861 and lived alone in a cabin on 160 acres.

The city itself was planned in 1890. Tacoma lumberman Henry Hewitt Jr. convinced Charles L. Colby that the peninsula's river and bay made it ideal for industry, and money from John D. Rockefeller, Colby and Colgate Hoyt formed the Everett Land Company that November. In 1891 five hundred men cleared and surveyed the townsite while land was readied for a nail factory, barge works, paper mill and smelter. On April 27, 1893, voters approved becoming a city 670 to 99 and chose Thomas Dwyer as mayor.

“timber so dense that trees on all sides touched the little cabin”
HistoryLink.org, quoting Roth
  • Named for a hungry boyThe investors wanted a name tied to no particular place. They settled on Everett, after Charles L. Colby's fifteen-year-old son, who had shown a "prodigious appetite" at a dinner the group shared.
  • Hibulb at Preston PointThe main village of the Snohomish people, Hibulb, stood below the bluff at Preston Point, near the river's mouth. It had four cedar longhouses about 100 feet long, the largest potlatch house in Snohomish territory and a cedar stockade against raiders. Its name means "water bubbling out of the ground." In 2013 the city and the Tulalip Tribes put up signs telling its story at Legion Park, on the bluff above it.
  • Swalwell's Landing, 1891William Swalwell didn't wait for the Everett Land Company. In September 1891 he began selling his own lots along the Snohomish River and built a big dock for sternwheel steamers. His landing, called the "cradle of Everett," grew into a rowdy frontier town with gambling and prostitution. Hewitt Avenue, 100 feet wide, was finished in June 1892 and linked the riverfront to the bay.
  • County seat by 1897Everett set out to take the county seat from Snohomish, which had faded as railroads served other towns. The election of November 6, 1894, brought charges of fraud and bought votes on both sides. The commissioners counted it for Everett on December 19, and the Washington Supreme Court threw out the result, but an October 1895 recount still favored Everett, and the city became county seat in 1897.
  • Boeing arrives in 1967Paine Field opened as an airport in 1936. After World War II the city's economy shifted from lumber toward aerospace, and Boeing built its aircraft assembly plant at Paine Field in 1967. Boeing is still the city's largest employer, along with the U.S. Navy, which has run Naval Station Everett since 1994.

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Places and landmarks10

  • City Hall
  • Casino Corner
  • Darlington
  • Edgewater
  • Everett Junction
  • Fairmont
  • Intercity
  • Lowell
  • Murphys Corner
  • Pinehurst

Streets and roads94

  • West Marine View Drive
  • Boeing Fwy
  • 19th Avenue Southeast
  • Pacific Highway
  • Broadway
  • Broadway Avenue
  • Holly Drive
  • Larimer Road
  • Evergreen Way
  • Beverly Boulevard
  • Lake Chaplain Road
  • Colby Avenue
  • Wetmore Avenue
  • Rucker Avenue
  • Seaway Boulevard
  • Walnut Street
  • Hardeson Road
  • Pine Street
  • Airport Road
  • Beverly Lane
  • Maple Street
  • Glenwood Avenue
  • Seventh Avenue Southeast
  • 23rd Street
  • 25th Street
  • Baker Avenue
  • Seahurst Avenue
  • East Grand Avenue
  • South Third Avenue
  • 33rd Street
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  • Ross Road
  • Ross Avenue
  • 34th Street
  • 35th Street
  • Twelfth Street
  • Smith Avenue
  • 41st Street
  • Jordan Road
  • Frontage Road
  • Cady Road
  • 37th Street
  • Elm Street
  • Park Road
  • View Drive
  • Bothell Everett Highway
  • Paine Field Boulevard
  • Lombard Avenue
  • Grand Avenue
  • Riverfront Boulevard
  • Cedar Street
  • Third Avenue Southeast
  • Madison Street
  • Olympic Boulevard
  • 100th Street Southwest
  • 75th Street Southeast
  • Lowell Snohomish River Road
  • Diversion Dam Road
  • 18th Street
  • Tenth Street
  • 14th Street
  • Upper Ridge Road
  • Alverson Boulevard
  • Silver Lake Road
  • East Drive
  • Sievers Duecy Road
  • West Mall Drive
  • 28th Avenue West
  • Twelfth Street Northeast
  • Fowler Avenue
  • Spruance Boulevard
  • Dover Street
  • Larlin Drive
  • Fifth Street
  • Yew Street
  • 40th Place
  • 26th Street
  • 15th Street
  • Terminal Avenue
  • 75th Street Southwest
  • Brown Road Southeast
  • Hollow Dale Place
  • Associated Boulevard
  • Riverside Road
  • West Mukilteo Boulevard
  • Merrill Creek Parkway
  • 13th Street
  • 20th Street
  • Pigeon Creek Road
  • 27th Place Northeast
  • Sharon Drive
  • Narbeck Avenue
  • Emander Road
  • Bruin Boulevard
  • High Street

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