About Granite Falls, Washington

Granite Falls is a city of 4,450 people in Snohomish County, on a narrow plateau between the Pilchuck River and the South Fork Stillaguamish. Coast Salish people carried their canoes across this flat ground, and early settlers simply called it the portage. A forest fire had already burned over much of the site, so when Joseph Sousa Enas, an immigrant from the Azores, staked a claim south of today's town in 1883, homesteaders could farm without first clearing the trees.

George W. Anderson of Maine followed in 1884 and planted a small crop in his first year. Gold and silver were found at Monte Cristo in 1889, and miners bound for the mountains passed through, so in 1890 the settlers won a post office and opened a first store. Many wanted to keep the name Portage, but the town was named instead for the falls on the Stillaguamish, less than two miles away. It was platted with 18 blocks in August 1891, the Everett and Monte Cristo Railway arrived on October 16, 1892, and Granite Falls became a town on November 8, 1903.

  • Ten shingle mills by 1906Fred P. Anderson built the town's first shingle mill in 1892. By 1906 Granite Falls had about 400 people and 10 shingle mills, among them Sobey Manufacturing, Robe and Menzel and Chappell Shingle, and several hundred men worked in them. Anderson had also found the Wayside Mine near town with Tom Humes and F. M. Headlee, and he died in 1906 when a blast went off too soon at his mine.
  • A school in a cabinBy 1886 enough families had settled here to petition for a school district, and the county created District No. 21. Eva Andrus taught the first classes in Robert Wright's old cabin in 1888, and the next year students moved to a shack on land given by F. P. Kistner. A new schoolhouse opened in 1893 with 117 students and two teachers, and the first eighth grade class graduated five years later.
  • A record fish tunnel in 1954At the falls that gave the town its name, workers built a 540-foot fishway and a 280-foot tunnel in 1954 so fish could get past the falls. When it opened, it was the longest fish tunnel anywhere in the world.
  • Railroad Days since 1965A schoolteacher started Railroad Days in 1965 to celebrate the town's past. The festival comes each early October and draws about 5,000 visitors, who watch a parade, browse booths along the street, ride the carnival and take tours. The trains themselves are long gone: crews tore out the tracks early in the 1930s, clearing the route for the Mountain Loop Highway.

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Names on the Granite Falls map

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Places and landmarks1

  • Granite Falls City Hall

Streets and roads86

  • Granite Falls Highway
  • West Stanley Street
  • Cascade Avenue
  • East Pioneer Street
  • South Alder Avenue
  • Jordan Road
  • East Alpine Street
  • Quarry Road
  • Hemming Way
  • Skyline Avenue
  • Mountain Loop Highway
  • 100th Street Northeast
  • Burn Road
  • North Gun Club Road
  • Wayside Mine Road
  • North Granite Avenue
  • 102nd Street Northeast
  • Gun Club Road
  • Paradise Lane
  • South Granite Avenue
  • East Stanley Street
  • Maple Street
  • Mill Valley Road
  • Ray Gray Road
  • North Alder Road
  • Suncrest Boulevard
  • Prospect Avenue
  • West Wallace Street
  • Messner Avenue
  • Anderson Avenue
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  • West Alpine Avenue
  • Saratoga Street
  • North Bogart Avenue
  • Eagle View Drive
  • Tompkins Place
  • Menzel Lake Road
  • Noble Way
  • Wabash Avenue
  • Darwin's Way
  • Paradise Parkway
  • Portage Avenue
  • West Pilchuck Street
  • Kentucky Avenue
  • East Union Street
  • North Indiana
  • Oak Street
  • Stilley Way
  • Alder Place
  • Lee Street
  • Leola Lane
  • 96th Street Northeast
  • West Pioneer Street
  • South Bogart Avenue
  • 187th Avenue Northeast
  • East Galena Street
  • South Cascade Avenue
  • South Prospect Avenue
  • South Indiana Avenue
  • Alpine Avenue
  • 172nd Avenue Northeast
  • Juniper Street
  • 211th Avenue Northeast
  • Hughes Lane
  • Mountain View Street
  • North Kentucky Avenue
  • Angeline Avenue
  • Crooked Mile Road
  • Robe Menzel Road
  • Tailspar Avenue
  • Spruce Avenue
  • Meadow Lane
  • Quartz Street
  • Ashe Court
  • Pine Lane
  • West Grand Street
  • West Galena Street
  • Wabash Place
  • Fox Glove Circle
  • Belmark Avenue
  • Cedar Lane
  • Poplar Lane
  • Manor Way
  • Peak Lane
  • East Grand Street
  • Stanley Place
  • Noble Place

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