About North Bend, Washington

North Bend is a city of 7,461 people in King County, in the upper Snoqualmie Valley below Mount Si. The Snoqualmie Tribe hunted, picked berries and dug roots on the prairie here, and the old trails over the Cascade passes ran across it. In 1865 Matts Peterson, a Dane who had once sailed with the British Royal Navy, built the first cabin where downtown now stands, and he later sold the farm to Jeremiah Borst.

Borst handed that farm to William H. Taylor in 1880 as pay for earlier work, and Taylor and his wife Molly added a trading post to the cabin for travelers crossing Snoqualmie Pass. When the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad wanted a station on their land, the Taylors platted a townsite called Snoqualmie on February 16, 1889, and the first train came that summer. A rival town four miles downstream took the name Snoqualmie Falls, so the railroad asked Taylor to rename his. Mountain View was rejected, and the town became North Bend, after the river's northward bend. It was incorporated on March 12, 1909.

“had to cross the river below the Falls, he had to go to an Indian camp and have them put him across, or make a raft, straddle it, and paddle across”
William H. Taylor, via HistoryLink.org
  • Uncle Si's mountainJosiah Merritt, whom everyone called Uncle Si, came in 1862 and claimed land by the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie, right under the great peak. Neighbors began calling it Uncle Si's mountain, and over time that became Mount Si, which rises to 4,167 feet. Merritt grew potatoes, vegetables and fruit and kept hogs there until he died in 1882.
  • Fort Smalley at Toll Gate FarmIn 1855 and 1856 the U.S. Army built three log blockhouses in the valley, fearing a Yakama attack over the passes. One, Fort Smalley, stood near today's North Bend at what became Toll Gate Farm. The attack never came, and the forts were left empty within a year. Joseph Fares and his wife Lucinda, Borst's niece, then built a cabin beside Fort Smalley and turned the old fort into their barn.
  • Streets named for AustraliaWhen the Taylors drew up their 1889 plat, Will Taylor was taken with Australia, so he gave three streets the names Ballarat, Bendigo and Sydney. He later said he had been foolish and wished he hadn't. He also gave the railroad its right-of-way through the town for free.
  • McGrath's since 1922Jack and Caroline McGrath bought the site of Taylor's old cabin in October 1921 and opened a one-story cafe there in 1922. In early 1926 they added a hotel lobby and a second floor of rooms, creating the McGrath Hotel. A local couple bought the worn building in 2000 and spent two years restoring it, and it joined the National Register in 2002.
  • The Twin Peaks premiereThe North Bend Theatre opened on April 9, 1941, a 400-seat Art Deco house built for $12,000. It has run as an independent movie theater ever since, through seven family owners. Twin Peaks was partly filmed in North Bend, and the theater hosted the premiere of David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

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Places and landmarks4

  • North Bend City Hall
  • Tanner
  • Meadowbrook Farm
  • Tollgate Farm

Streets and roads72

  • Bendigo Boulevard North
  • East North Bend Way
  • West North Bend Way
  • East Ribary Way
  • Northeast Twelfth Street
  • Southeast Lake Dorothy Road
  • Main Avenue North
  • West Ribary Way
  • Ballarat Avenue North
  • 428th Avenue Southeast
  • Northwest Eighth Street
  • Southeast North Bend Way
  • Southeast Tanner Road
  • Southeast 140th Street
  • Southeast Cedar Falls Way
  • Southeast 136th Street
  • Southeast Tenth Street
  • Northeast Fourth Street
  • 432nd Avenue Southeast
  • Maloney Grove Avenue Southeast
  • Northeast Sixth Street
  • Northeast Eighth Street
  • Boalch Avenue Northwest
  • Alm Way
  • Southeast 137th Street
  • Southwest Tenth Street
  • Riverside Drive Southeast
  • East Park Street
  • Southeast 420th Avenue
  • East McCellan Street
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  • Bendigo Boulevard South
  • Stillson Avenue Southeast
  • Ballarat Avenue Northeast
  • Southeast 110th Street
  • Mountain View Boulevard Southeast
  • Southeast 108th Street
  • Southeast 114th Street
  • Meadow Drive Southeast
  • 468th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 16th Street
  • 412th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast Eleventh Street
  • 457th Avenue Southeast
  • East Third Street
  • Southeast Orchard Drive
  • Northwest 14th Street
  • Zemp Way Northeast
  • Southeast 139th Place
  • Southeast 134th Place
  • Northeast Third Street
  • West Second Street
  • 436th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast Tenth Place
  • Southeast 144th Street
  • Southeast 137th Place
  • Northeast Second Street
  • 453rd Place Southeast
  • Southeast 146th Street
  • Southwest Twelfth Street
  • Southeast Mount Si Road
  • Forster Boulevard Southwest
  • Laforest Drive Southeast
  • 455th Avenue Southeast
  • Southwest Mount Si Boulevard
  • Southeast 141st Street
  • Southeast Fifth Street
  • Healy Avenue South
  • Northeast Fifth Street
  • Thrasher Avenue Northeast
  • 463rd Avenue Southeast
  • Patkanim Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 131st Place

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