December 1876 Local Items.
August 19, 1876. Local Items
“If any of the early settlers arrived on foot, it would have been Isaac Cathcart. Pictured here as published in The History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington, the large-framed Irishman, recently from Michigan, had been working in the county since 1869, felling trees in the isolated logging camps. Within four years, he had saved enough money to build the Exchange Hotel.”
Early Snohomish, Arcadia Publishing, 2007
Another early photograph of Snohomish jam-packed with historical details. Unfortunately, we don’t know the name of the photographer but can assume it was taken on the occasion of the year-old Stern-wheeler “Nellie’s” addition to the list of steamships serving the young city of Snohomish. Snohomish County, An Illustrated History, edited by David Cameron who also contributed a two-page list of “Steamboats in Snohomish County” on pages 87-88, emphasizing the vital role the boats played in the development of the territory. In the immediate background is the Ferguson Building and beyond is Cathcart’s Snohomish Exchange Hotel — both are featured in the story of Cathcart’s wedding party to an unnamed woman from Seattle.
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July 1, 1876. Local Items
Featured Image: Cathcart Opera House/Atheneum Hall being torn down. Photo by Picket, c. 1910
The inscription in the featured image above reads: “Built in 1876 by Issac Cathcart — Wholesale + Retail General Merchandise for Loggers + Settlers, Torn down in April 1910, by Wm. Cathcart for a new brick building on the sight (sic).” The image is signed “Picket” in black ink in the right-hand corner which we assume is Lee Picket, a resident of Index, WA where the family home was preserved and is used by the Index Historical Society — well worth a visit.
No record of the cornerstone has been found.
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Learn more about Early Snohomish at Stop #2 of the Early Snohomish Heritage Trail pictured on the Home Page.
June: Address of Eldridge Morse
“and we become the children of the past, as well as the parents of the future.”
Eldridge Morse
And what is the work by which we hope to ‘leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time?'”
Eldridge Morse
“… your noble work [will] be perpetuated forever and ever.”
Eldridge Morse
Learn more about the Snohomish Elite at Stop #2 of the Early Snohomish Heritage Trail pictured on the Home Page.
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April 22, 1876. Local Items
The Featured Image was published in Northwest Magazine, August 1890.
Learn more about Mary Low Sinclair at Stop #4 of the Early Snohomish Heritage Trail pictured on the Home Page.
And learn more about the Blackman Brothers at Stop #5 of the Early Snohomish Heritage Trail pictured on the Home Page.
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Traveling in the Early Days
Featured Image: Snohomish Elite Outing, circa 1885.
Native-operated dugout canoes were vital to the growth of early Snohomish transporting both passengers and cargo.
The Northern Star 25 March, 1876
Snohomish Elite Picnic, circa 1885. On the left is the photographer’s wife, Margaret Horton; next to her is Jennie Wilbur. Her husband, Lot Wilbur, is the first male on the right; and behind him is Eldridge Morse, the editor, and co-founder of the Northern Star, where he used the term “Snohomish elite” to describe the leaders of the community. Both photographs are by Gilbert Horton, courtesy of the Snohomish Historical Society. (Tap image to enlarge)
Learn more about the Wilburs at Stop #8 of the Early Snohomish Heritage Trail pictured on the Home Page.
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