Sedro-Woolley
This 44 mile side trip travels through the South Nooksack and Samish River valleys between Van Zandt Dike, Blue Mountain, and Lyman Hill (ridges along east side) and Anderson Mountain (along west side).
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A former lumber camp on the South Fork of the Nooksack River. The place was named in 1892 when a post office was established. It was for J. Milner Van Zandt, the first postmaster, who homesteaded there in 1883. The post office continued in operation until February 28, 1955. By the 1930s the Northern Pacific Railway ran through the valley, with multiple smaller logging railroads branching out and up into...
Learn more about Van ZandtMile: 77
Once a shingle-manufacturing center, now an area of small farms east of Lake Whatcom. The town was named for the Clipper Shingle Company which had a mill there, by James A. McDonald and James Peterson in 1900.
Learn more about ClipperMile: 75
A community east of Lake Whatcom on the South Fork of the Nooksack River. The name was suggested by the Acme Hymnal which Samuel Parks used in church. It became the name of the post office in 1887.
Learn more about AcmeMile: 72
The name was given when a post office was established in 1887 for Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, a widow who came to Whatcom County in 1885 from Tennessee. She settled on a homestead at Saxon and later lived in Bellingham.
Learn more about SaxonMile: 70
Formerly an important lumber and shingle community, it was named for Noah and William Wickersham, who filed homesteads about 1885. William Wickersham was post master of the post office from June 5, 1891 to October 15, 1893 and from June 26, 1897 to January 13, 1899. The post office continued in operation until October 4, 1957.
Learn more about WickershamMile: 87
A community on the Samish River. When a post office was established in 1890 it was named for its location on an extensive prairie east of the Samish River.
Learn more about PrairieMile: 63
Thornewood is a one hundred-acre county estate of Tacoma financier and industrialist Chester Thorne. Designed and built by noted architect Kirtland Cutter between 1909-1911, the grand manor house, gatehouse and carriage house remain as a unique representation of an early 20th century English manor in the Pacific Northwest.
Learn more about ThornewoodMile: 62
The center of a region that has accomplished successfully the transition from large-scale logging and lumbering to farming. Once covered with heavy stands of western red cedar, the land, lying in the valley of the Skagit River, required only clearing and cultivation to be made productive. The area yielded large crops of strawberries, peas, cabbage, kale, and other vegetables; some sections were given over to dairy farms and poultry ranches....
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