Located on Fir Island, The 1910 barn was built by Tillie and Otto Larson, Swedish immigrants. The Larsons were dairy farmers who also raised chickens and sold eggs. They planted an orchard in 1910.

Hub of the surrounding farming area. Conway was once a shingle manufacturing center but is now a community of small farms on the Skagit Delta. It was named for an early shingle mill operator. The road parallels the Sound, which is, however, hidden from view by the embankment of the Great Northern Railway. Like a sluggish stream, a wide drainage ditch winds along the west side of the road. Then...

A steamboat landing on Douglas Slough on the Skagit Delta. The place is between several sloughs which are outlets of Skagit River and this one has since dried up. It was named in the 1890s because there were four sawmills and shingle mills, one of which operated until 1920.

Near the mouth of the Stillaguamish River. Once the land around the town was a marsh where skunk cabbage spread their broad green leaves and massive yellow flowers and cattails throve. In 1866, a settler named Robert Fulton opened a small trading post there; gradually in the course of years the marsh has been reclaimed by the stubborn persistence of the inhabitants. Bit by bit the pools where frogs croaked...

Points of Interest

Stanwood IOOF Public Hall

Fellows (LO.O.F.)

Pearson House

Began as a farming region a mile from the community of Stanwood on the "diked and drained valley...." of the Stillaguamish River. East Stanwood was the industrial center for its neighboring city, Stanwood. Today it still serves as a commercial center, although the pea cannery is no longer extant. By the 1940s, the city had a pea cannery supplied by the commercial pea farms, which spread for miles over the...

A community southeast of Stanwood on the lower Stillaguamish River named for Florence Norton whose father was a pioneer of 1883.

The James Long Barn is a saltbox style barn built in 1880. The barn is named for its original owner, James Long.

A resort area on Port Susan south of Stanwood. A one-mile tidal runout creates warm water on incoming tides, which gives reason for the name. By the 1940s the surrounding area was sparsely settled country, where stretches of small, second-growth forests alternate with pasture land and occasional farms.

A community on the north shore of Tulalip Bay on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. The name is an Native American word with English spelling. Duh-hlay-lup means a wide bay with a small mouth, which is descriptive of the bay on which the town is located. The Tulalip Tribes is a federally-recognized Native American tribe located on the 22,000-acre Tulalip Reservation. More than 50 percent of the land is in federal...

Points of Interest

Tulalip Indian Agency Office

Saint Anne’s Roman Catholic Church

Priest Point

The Indian Shaker Church on the Tulalip Reservation was erected by church members in 1924 and is among the best preserved examples of Indian Shaker architecture, a tradition peculiar to the Pacific Northwest. The Indian Shaker movement is entirely unrelated to the more widely known Protestant monastic sect of the same name introduced to American by Mother Ann Lee in 1774, instead, the Shakerism displayed in this church was a...

The highway descends into fertile lowlands which as recently as the early 1900s were covered by a dense forest. Marysville dates back to 1877, when James P. Comeford established a trading post on Ebey Slough. By the 1940s, the city was sustained by mills, woodworking plants, and a boat factory, and was the center of supplies for the several Sound fishing resorts in the vicinity. Marysville was also the distribution...

Points of Interest

Marysville Opera House

The 1953 Steamboat Slough Bridge is one of four operating swing spans remaining in Washington and it was the last steel swing span built in Washington. It incorporates several innovative design features including its central bearing support and the unusual live load bearing supports at the center and end piers. The slough is one of several branches of the Skagit River which discharge into the shallow waters of Skagit Bay...

Keler’s Korner is a rare, surviving example of an early automobile service station. The buildings intact condition greatly enchances its instructional value as a relic of the early years of America’s “automobile culture.” The “Seattle-Everett highway” (present day US 99) opened in 1927. Promoted by the heavy use of the new highway, Mr. Keeler built a service station on it during its inaugural year.

Mile: 49

Incorporated August 31, 1995 with an initial population of 51,500. It is named for the school district running along the shore of Puget Sound to the shore of Lake Washington from the Seattle City limits north to the King-Snohomish County line. In the 1940s, as the tour passed through Shoreline, it ran between fruit and vegetable stands, scattered houses, and suburban beer parlors, roadhouses, and skating rinks catering to those...

Mile: 42

Mid-century architectural signage illuminates the commercial roadway’s approaching Seattle. This signage stems from the rise of popularity in automobiles and marks a notable transition in how businesses advertised and the visual character of roadways. Examples abound along other stretches of tours, but this area has one of the best concentrations. Mid-century signage is readily distinguishable from contemporary back lit box signage. The mid-century signage provides a key character-defining feature of...

A shallow, 255-acre lake adjoining a residential area in Woodland Park is two miles north of Lake Union in north central Seattle. It is used extensively for recreation. The name, which was given by early Seattle settlers, describes the coloration of the lake's water. In 1946, William F. Devin, who was once mayor of Seattle tried to have the lake officially named for Seattle banker Joshua Green. It is called...

Once a town now part of the city of Seattle and is in the central region of the city at the northwest end of Lake Union where the lake meets the ship canal. After the area was logged in the early 1880s, it was platted as a town by David Denny and Judge John P. Hoyt. In 1892, the name was given by L. H. Griffith when he laid out...

Points of Interest

Fremont Building

Fremont Bridge

Wagner Houseboat

Gas Works Park

This is the second car wash site opened in 1956. The first was opened in 1951 at 4th and Lander in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle. Nation’s first automated car wash in Washington. Established in 1951 by Dean, Archie, and Eldon Anderson. Dean and Eldon invented machines to do the washing.