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Skagit River Journal

of History & Folklore
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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

Maps for your education and pleasure

Hare are some maps that will help you locate different locations mentioned in Journal stories. And some more that are just fascinating.

Where we are located, northwest Washington state (Home Page) Following the link from our home page, this is an interactive Northwest Washington, courtesy of Mapquest; or another interactive page via Google. You can zoom in and out, to see both the big picture and down to street level.

1895 Atlas, U.S., Washington state, Skagit County

A small sample of the Rietsch 1895 Atlas. Click on photo for her pages.

This is just plain an amazing project by a selfless person who has spent hundreds of hours scanning and sharing maps, indexes, tables of details, etc. about rural towns in every state of the U.S. I first found Pam Rietsch on the Internet in about 1998-99. She lives in Michigan, but she has shared a research that every serious researcher will find a godsend. Please click the email button and thank her for her efforts. You can navigate back and forth between hundreds of pages.

Skagit River Basin

Earliest Washington maps Washington State University's Digital Collection of maps of early Washington Territory and state

Land ownership maps State, Provincial, and County Atlases and County Landownership Maps of the United States and Canada

Cascade River Mining Claims, courtesy of the National Park Service. See links there to dozens more historical maps and research of the North Cascades.

Mining maps, Washington state

Railway maps 1890s Railway maps of Washington state and British Columbia in the 1890s, courtesy of our favorite BC source and ace researcher Neil Roughley

Northwest Skagit and southwest Whatcom counties Map of Blanchard, Samish Island, Chuckanut Mountain

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Oliver Hammer Clothes Shop at 817 Metcalf Street in downtown Sedro-Woolley, 86 years.

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

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

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