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Drago, Janet "Jan" (b. 1940)

Jan Drago is a Seattle politician who served on the Seattle City Council and the Metropolitan King County Council. Jan and her husband Noel Drago moved to Seattle in 1980 to operate Häagen-Dazs i...

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Everett Public Library

The Everett Public Library commemorated several significant milestone anniversaries in 2019. The year marked the 125th anniversary of the formation of the library, the 85th anniversary of the historic...

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Jackson, Helen Hardin (1933-2018)

Helen Hardin Jackson grew up in New Mexico, received an excellent education, and after a brief first marriage, became a secretary to a senator in Washington, D.C. There, in 1961, she met and married S...

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Japanese Gulch (Mukilteo)

From 1903 to the early 1930s, nearly half of the residents of Mukilteo were Japanese immigrants or of Japanese descent. Japanese men relocated to Mukilteo to work at the Crown Lumber Company, which re...

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Mayors of Everett

Everett, the Puget Sound port city that is now the county seat and largest city in Snohomish County, incorporated in 1893 and elected Thomas Dwyer as its first mayor that same year. The office of mayo...

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Trailblazers: Women Mountaineers of Everett and Snohomish County

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, men and women hiked and climbed together in the peaks and valleys of Snohomish County and throughout Washington. Nature recreation in Snohomis...

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3 Timeline Entries

Everett Public Library opens its first location on April 21, 1898.

On Thursday, April 21, 1898, Everett Public Library opens its doors to the public for the first time. The library has been in development for four years as its backers worked to provide an open and ac...

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Everett teacher and mountaineer Mabel McBain solo staffs the Skykomish Lookout Station in summer 1918.

On August 31, 1918, 38-year-old school teacher Mabel McBain (1880-1977) returns home from a summer spent alone at the Skykomish Lookout Station high atop Mount Cleveland in the Snoqualmie National For...

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Mukilteo City Council adopts the Japanese Gulch Master Plan to create a public park on June 20, 2016.

On June 20, 2016, the Mukilteo City Council adopts the Japanese Gulch Master Plan to create a public park in the heart of the city. This decision is the culmination of several years of preservation ef...

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