Skagit River Journal

of History & Folklore
600 of 700 total Free Home Page Stories & Photos
(Also see our Subscribers Magazine Sample)
The most in-depth, comprehensive site about the Skagit
Covers from British Columbia to Puget Sound. Counties covered: Skagit, Whatcom, Island, San Juan, Snohomish & BC. An evolving history dedicated to committing random acts of historical kindness

Noel V. Bourasaw, editor 810 Central Ave., Sedro-Woolley, Washington, 98284 Home of the Tarheel Stomp Mortimer Cook slept here & named the town Bug
Site founded Sept. 1, 2000. We passed 5 million page views on June 6, 2011 The home pages remain free of any charge. We need donations or subscriptions to continue. Please pass on this website link to your family, relatives, friends and clients.

Springboard logging by Darius Kinsey

Skagit River Journal: the main source for history of the valley from Sound to Cascades. We help publicize Sedro-Woolley and Skagit County to thousands of readers. How you can help us fund this Internet Site:

Advertise on the site: One full year for the price of one 3 col x 8-inch newspaper ad
Subscribe to our optional Journal magazine online, now in Issue 58, closing our 11th year
Distribute our flyers to your customers
Donate to help us defray part of our research/travel expenses, especially in 2012 to the '49er gold fields and to Santa Barbara to research for our book.

Join our select advertisers today
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Launched fall 2000, Passed 5 million views, June 6, 2011
The SRJ has nearly 800 photo features and more than 2,000 photos that reinforce Sedro-Woolley's and Skagit county's historical importance and visitor amenities
Travelers depend on the Journal for plans when they visit our historical area, and attend family and school reunions and local events, make Skagit County a "destination."
We refer travelers to our local museums & parks & destination locations to stay.

Many visitors use laptop computers in their vehicle to choose their route and destination

Any time, any amount, please help build our travel and research fund for what promises to be a very busy 2011, traveling to mine resources from California to Washington and maybe beyond. Depth of research determined by the level of aid from readers. Because of our recent illness, our research fund is completely bare. See many examples of how you can aid our project and help us continue for another ten years. And subscriptions to our optional Subscribers Online Magazine (launched 2000) by donation too. Thank you.

We urge on the site that visitors visit and shop Sedro-Woolley with a special section. We want to do the same for your area with a similar portal page where your ad will be featured.

Join our select advertisers today We have introduced a small advertising section that tells readers about how and where they can find the best of Skagit County, where they can shop and eat while visiting, how they can see real estate and homes and how they can order items that say Skagit County. We need income from advertising to support our whole project. We work with local government agencies, chambers and museums to encourage interest in history. We also help students and genealogists learn more about local history by aiding their research and presenting seminars to local classes and groups. We sell CD sets for people without Internet access.
So far, we have helped connect descendants from nearly 200 local families after they read our site. We have received awards from agencies that rate history sites, including the WashingtonSuite, which granted us their highest rating of five stars and we are linked from www.historylink.org, the largest history web site in the state. All major search engines refer to our pages, and government and tourist agencies all refer readers and visitors to us. Most recently, we have started our "Giving Back to the Community" project by providing copies of our stories and photos to libraries and museums.
Advertisers that want to feature locally oriented products and services or who want to support our project will find the rates very reasonable. We will design the ad for you, write a short profile of your business and include either a scanned historical photo or a photo of your business. You can then link to that page in your advertising. Your package includes: (bullet)

Free design and typesetting for your page (bullet)

Ad panel on the Free Homepage with link to your webpage (bullet)

Ad panel on "Shop (your region) First" page (bullet)

Webpage layout linked from your ad
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Subscription rates are $20/1 yr., $35/2 yrs. $7.50 for gifts. $100 for "lifetime" 10-year subscription

This story last updated Dec. 4, 2011
Please report any broken links so we can update them

Getting lost trying to navigate or find stories on our site? Read how to sort through our 700-plus stories.
Return to the new-domain home page	Links for portals to subjects and towns	Newest photo features	Search entire site
Our new weekly column, Puget Sound Mail (but don't call it a blog) debuted on Aug. 9, 2009. Check it out.

See this Journal Timeline website of local, state, national, international events for years of the pioneer period.

Did you enjoy this story? Remember, as with all our features, this story is a draft and will evolve as we discover more information and photos. This process continues until we eventually compile a book about Northwest history. Can you help?

Remember; we welcome correction & criticism.

Please report any broken links or files that do not open and we will send you the correct link. With more than 700 features, we depend on your report. Thank you.

Read about how you can order CDs that include our photo features from the first five years of our Subscribers Edition. Perfect for gifts.

You can click the donation button to contribute to the rising costs of this site. See many examples of how you can aid our project and help us continue for another ten years. You can also subscribe to our optional Subscribers-Paid Journal magazine online, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in September 2010, with exclusive stories, in-depth research and photos that are shared with our subscribers first. You can go here to read the preview edition to see examples of our in-depth research or read how and why to subscribe.

You can read the history websites about our prime sponsors
Would you like information about how to join them in advertising?

Our newest sponsor: Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial St., half-block uphill from Main Street, LaConner. Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 5 p.m., featuring new monthly shows with many artists, many local. Across the street from Maple Hall, 1886 Bank Building and Marcus Anderson's 1969 historic cabin. Their new website.

Oliver-Hammer Clothes Shop at 817 Metcalf Street in downtown Sedro-Woolley, 89 years.

Peace and quiet at the Alpine RV Park, just north of Marblemount on Hwy 20, day, week or month, perfect for hunting or fishing
Park your RV or pitch a tent by the Skagit River, just a short drive from Winthrop or Sedro-Woolley

Joy's Sedro-Woolley Bakery-Cafe at 823 Metcalf Street in downtown Sedro-Woolley.

Check out Sedro-Woolley First section for links to all stories and reasons to shop here first
or make this your destination on your visit or vacation.

Are you looking to buy or sell a historic property, business or residence?
We may be able to assist. Email us for details.

Did you find what you were seeking? We have helped many people find individual names or places, so email if you have any difficulty.

Tip: Put quotation marks around a specific name or item of two 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 — check the list here. Maybe you have searched for one of them?

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