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Everett

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located on Puget Sound at mouth of Snohomish River in NW Washington; terminus of Northern Pacific Railway in 1893; developed as manufacturing center; later timber industry dominated; named for son of CL Colby, an initial investor in the city.
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Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Byron H. Bratt (American, born 1952)

James Martin (American, born 1928)

Alden Mason (American, 1919-2013)

Wesley Wehr (American, 1929-2004)

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