Library Search Results

Topic: Cities & Towns

Your search found :
and
Per Page:

Kent -- Thumbnail History

The city of Kent, located in King County 15 miles southeast of Seattle, was home to some of the earliest white settlers in King County, and was the first city in King County to incorporate outside of ...

Read More

Kirkland -- Thumbnail History

The city of Kirkland, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Washington east of Seattle, is named for Peter Kirk (1840-1916). Kirk was a British steel industrialist who originally envisioned Kirkla...

Read More

Krupp (Marlin) -- Thumbnail History

Krupp, located in Grant County about 25 miles northeast of Moses Lake, is Washington's smallest town. It is situated in a small valley along Crab Creek, and is bordered to the north and south by canyo...

Read More

La Center -- Thumbnail History

The town of La Center lies on the north bank of the East Fork of the Lewis River in northwest Clark County, some 16 miles north of the county seat at Vancouver. Cowlitz Indians inhabited a broad range...

Read More

La Conner -- Thumbnail History

Located in western Skagit County, La Conner was once county seat and most populous town in the Skagit Valley. Bounded by farmland, the Swinomish Channel and the Swinomish Indian Reservation, it was an...

Read More

Lacey -- Thumbnail History

The City of Lacey is located between the City of Olympia and the Nisqually River in northeastern Thurston County. Originally known as Woodland and also sometimes referred to as Chambers Prairie, the c...

Read More

Lake Forest Park -- 1912 Promotional Brochure

This is the complete text of a promotional brochure written in 1912 by real estate developer Ole Hanson (1874-1940). The brochure extols the wondrous virtues of living in idyllic Lake Forest Park, loc...

Read More

Lake Forest Park -- Thumbnail History

Lake Forest Park, located along the northern tip of Lake Washington, is one of King County's first planned communities. It has an estimated population (in 2021) of 13,358. From its inception in 1909 u...

Read More

Lake Stevens -- Thumbnail History

The city of Lake Stevens in Snohomish County, about eight miles east of Everett, is named after the glacial lake it surrounds. The lake was named, on an 1855 map, for Washington Territory Governor Isa...

Read More

Langley -- Thumbnail History

Langley -- often referred to as the "Village by the Sea" -- is a South Whidbey Island town situated on a bluff overlooking Saratoga Passage and the Cascade Mountains. Located in Island County, it is ...

Read More

Leavenworth -- Thumbnail History

The town of Leavenworth in Chelan County occupies a spectacular location at the confluence of Wenatchee River and Icicle Creek, over which loom peaks of the North Cascade Mountains. The Wenatchee Vall...

Read More

Liberty Lake -- Thumbnail History

The city of Liberty Lake, Spokane County, is 16 miles east of downtown Spokane and about a mile west of the Washington-Idaho border. Fur traders and missionaries began arriving in the early 1800s, but...

Read More