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2 Features

Cook, Mortimer (1826-1899)

Mortimer Cook (1826-1899), born in Mansfield, Ohio, founded the town of Bug on the northern shore of the Skagit River in 1885 and soon renamed it Sedro. His lasting legacy was building the first dryin...

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Woolley, Philip A. (1831-1912)

Philip A. Woolley was a railroad developer from Elgin, Illinois, who moved to Washington just as the territory became a state in 1889. With the help of Territorial Attorney General James Bard Metcalfe...

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2 Timeline Entries

Coal is discovered northeast of Sedro (Skagit County) in 1878.

In 1878, Layfayette Stevens discovers coal in the foothills northeast of Sedro, at a place later called Cokedale (in Skagit County). This joins earlier nearby strikes to produce coal fever in the regi...

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Sedro and Woolley merge on December 19, 1898.

In December 1898, the towns Sedro and Woolley, located adjacent to one another in Skagit County, merge. The two battling towns had stood side by side for nearly a decade, duplicating each other's gove...

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