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Covering from British Columbia to Puget Sound. Washington counties covered: Skagit, Whatcom, Island, San Juan, Snohomish, focusing on Sedro-Woolley and Skagit Valley. An evolving history dedicated to committing random acts of historical kindness Publisher: Skagit County Historical Society
The Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore website celebrates its 20th anniversary on the internet in 2020.
Noel V. Bourasaw, founder,
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
Home of the Tarheel Stomp
Mortimer Cook slept here & named the town
Bug & Noel Bourasaw still haunts these pages.
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Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore Annual 2023 Release date August 1, 2023 at Annual Pioneer Picnic In association with the Skagit County Historical Society and Skagit County Pioneer Association, the Publication Committee is pleased to announce that the new edition of 'Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore 2023' will be available for sale at the Skagit County Historical Museum and Seaport Books in La Conner. They can also be ordered and mailed with our order form here. If you would like to submit for the 2024 edition, you will be sent a submission form for consideration giving guidelines and permission. You may submit any time for the website. Visit Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore at skagitriverjournal.com, now under the direction of the Society’s Publication Committee. Dan Royal, Editor. Contact the Publications Committee at museum@co.skagit.wa.us or skagitriverjournal@gmail.com |
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PO Box 818, 501 S. 4th St., La Conner, WA 98257 360-466-3365 Dan Royal 360-826-6141 Hours: Tuesday thru Sunday 11 AM to 4 PM The Museum is located at the top of the hill in La Conner. Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore © 2020 by Skagit County Historical Society. All rights reserved. |
Site founded Sept. 1, 2000. Passed 7.75 million page views, January 2017; passed 800 stories in 2013 Noel V. Bourasaw, 1944-2015, Founder Sedro-Woolley, Washington,— where Mortimer Cook started a town & named it Bug
Skagit River Journal &
Noel V. Bourasaw were honored with 2014 Heritage Award from Skagit County Historical Society |
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"The late Ray
Jordan was arguably the best historian of Sedro-Woolley. His book, Yarns
of the Skagit Country "Ray's Writin's" (Sedro-Woolley: self-published,
1974), was the most thorough collection of stories about the merged towns
and their pioneers and the surrounding area."
Noel
V. Bourasaw
The long awaited reprint of Ray Jordan's "Yarns of the Skagit Country, Ray's Writin's" has been available and for sale as of August 4, 2016 at the Museum bookstore. Link to Ray Jordan web page for an introduction.
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These days, Skagit City School and a road of the same name are all that remain of "Skagit's Lost Communities", Skagit City. (link to Skagit Valley Herald article) Find out "Where was Skagit City?" ...Skagit City School Grand Re-opening July 16, 2017. Bert Webber, photographer of the first Loggerodeo Howard Miller, Steelhead Fisherman and County Commissioner
The obituary and the life story of Norm Lisherness, Sedro-Woolley's beloved police chief, during Loggerodeo of 1967.
Stave Brothers Service
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See this photo feature with nearly two dozen photos of Gilbert Landre's cabin/hotel, built in the 1892 era, which still stands near Cascade Pass. |
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Early timeline Founders Mortimer Cook — P.A. Woolley — 4 British bachelors. |
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Maps … Mining |
Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Puget Sound & Baker River, and more . . . Interurban |
Food & Wine . . . Prohibition, liquor . . . |
Lost Cities of Skagit
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Whatcom, the mother county 'til 1883; Snohomish County, home of early Skagit pioneers |
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Special resource features for background reading and reference and more Transcriptions of Skagit County history One version of the meaning of "Skagit" |
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Memories and Profiles of Skagitonians, not necessarily here
during the pioneer period...Ray Jordan Yarns stories . . . |
Museums, Genealogy, Historians, Researchers, Historical Associations, Fraternities. Regional Museums updating Skagit County Pioneer Association |
Transcriptions old newspapers Very short stories in Odds and Ends Portal |
You can find links to our transcriptions of this most valuable resource. An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties, Washington published by Interstate Publishing Company, Chicago, IL (hereafter the 1906 History), published in 1906, is hands down the most important book on the shelf of anyone who researches, writes about or reads about our Northwest history. Out of Print for years, the original sometimes turns up on ebay, but is very expensive. The Skagit Valley Genealogical Society reprinted the hefty volume in hardbound in 2000 and it quickly sold out. At that same time the society created an All Name Index for the 1906 History, which is still available at their website. |
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Did you find what you were seeking? We have
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people find individual names or places,
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difficulty. |
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words or more, and then experiment with different combinations of the words without
quote marks. We are currently researching some of the names most recently searched for
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here. Maybe you have searched for one of them? |
See this Journal
Timeline website of local, state, national, international events for years of the
pioneer period. Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore! has been under the ownership of Skagit County Historical Society following the death of Noel Bourasaw's in 2015. SRJ is directed and maintained by the Societies' Publication Committee. Any donations to Skagit River Journal should be given on the DONATE button here on the homepage only. There are hundreds of pages still not updated with corrections. |
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