One of the largest employers in early Snohomish was Bickford Ford on First Street, which was founded by Lawrence Bickford in 1934. They were largely replaced by brick and masonry buildings. In 1911 many of the buildings on First Street were destroyed in a fire that extended up Avenues B and C. It is the oldest public building in the city. The Carnegie Building remains although it no longer houses a library. In 1897 the county seat moved to Everett after a disputed election.Īround the turn of the century Snohomish’s economy diversified to include the canning industry as the area’s soil and climate made for superior fruit growing.Ī Carnegie Library was built in 1910 on the site of a one-room school house on Cedar Avenue. It had a population of 1,995 people which grew to 3,000 by 1895. When Snohomish was incorporated in 1890 it became the first incorporated city in the county. Paul to Seattle was completed, including a stop in Snohomish. By 1893 the Great Northern Railway from St. Electric lighting followed the arrival of the first train in 1889. The first train to arrive in town was a Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway train. The Snohomish train station was built in 1888. There was a courthouse, school building, six saloons, and one church in town. In 1878, the Blackmans opened their own sawmill which was located on the Snohomish River.īy 1884, 700 people called Snohomish home. The first sawmill in Snohomish began its operations on the Pilchuck River in 1876. Hyrcanus went on to become the city’s first mayor after a special election in June 1890 to incorporate the new town (however, five months later during the general election in November, Ferguson was elected to be the Snohomish’s first full-term mayor). Brothers Alanson, Elhanan, and Hyrcanus Blackman migrated to Snohomish from Maine and established their first logging camp in 1875 on what was then called Stillaguamish Lake but is now known as Blackmans Lake. Originally, Snohomish was established to support the surrounding agricultural community but soon became a logging town as well because of the area’s dense forests of Douglas Firs. Ferguson is often called the “father of Snohomish” while Mary Low Sinclair is remembered as the “mother of Snohomish schools”. A year later, Mary and Woodbury Sinclair platted the claim they had purchased from Cady and named the avenues after trees.Ĭadyville became known as Snohomish in 1871 when the plat of Snohomish City Western Part joined Ferguson’s eastern claim with Sinclair’s western claim at Union Avenue. In 1871, Ferguson platted his claim giving streets running east-west a number and the north-south avenues a letter. When his wife, Mary Low Sinclair, arrived in Cadyville on May 1, 1865, she became Cadyville’s first permanent white female resident. Woodbury Sinclair purchased Cady’s stake in 1864 with the intention of establishing a store supporting the area’s booming logging industry. At the time 49 people, all men, called Cadyville home. The first county seat was Mukilteo, but in July 1861 it was moved to Cadyville after a vote of the people. Ferguson arrived a year later, in March/April 1860, and established a mercantile in Cadyville.Īs more settlers arrived in the region, Snohomish County was established January 14, 1861. In 1859, he had a cottage shipped by boat from Steilacoom to the claimed land and re-assembled it for Ferguson’s use. Meanwhile, Barnes was staking a claim for Emory C. Cady staked his claim for land and applied for a post office permit for “Cadyville”. Their goal was to establish a settlement at the mouth of the Pilchuck River where it empties into the Snohomish River. The first white settlers in what is now the City of Snohomish included Heil Barnes and Edson Cady. By the time white settlers began arriving at the confluence of the Snohomish and Pilchuck Rivers in the late 1850s, most Native Americans had relocated to the Tulalip Reservation near Marysville. The treaty included the establishment of four reservations. The purpose of the treaty was to sort out land disputes where natives and settlers were immediately adjacent to each other and to settle other “issues” with the Native Americans. In 1855, members of the Snohomish tribe were on hand in Mukilteo to sign the Point Elliott Treaty. The first settlers of the area were the Sdohobsh, Native American fishermen, hunters, and gatherers who were a subdivision of the Snohomish Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe. The City of Snohomish is located at the confluence of the Pilchuck River with the Snohomish River.

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