"Everett is the county seat of and the largest city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.[7] Named for Everett Colby, son of founder Charles L. Colby,[8] it lies 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle. The city had a total population of 103,019 at the 2010 census, making it the 6th largest in the state and fifth-largest in the Puget Sound area.[9] It received an All-America City Award in 2002.[10]
Everett is home to the largest public marina on the west coast of the United States[11] and is the western terminus of the western segment of U.S. Route 2. It is also home to Boeing's assembly plant for the 747, 767, 777, and the new 787 in the largest building in the world by volume at 116.5 million cubic feet (3,300,000 m3).
In 1984, Everett was selected as the site of a U.S. Navy Homeport, Naval Station Everett. The Naval Station formally opened in 1992 and on January 8, 1997 welcomed the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln is no longer homeported in Everett as of Winter 2011. The aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz (CVN-68) has replaced the Lincoln as Everett's homeported ship, as of March 9, 2012. Everett is also home to the Port of Everett, an international shipping port, that brings trade, commerce, jobs and recreational opportunities to the city.
In 2003, Comcast Arena (then known as Everett Events Center), effectively opened Everett to tourism. The 83.3 million dollar arena continues to host events, once exclusive to Seattle's Key Arena, to present day. From concerts to trade shows, hockey to high school graduations, the characteristic "Twin Masts" now add their unique signature to Everett's skyline"
--Wikipedia "Everett, Washington"
"Everett, Washington, an All-America City, is a rich landscape of choices. Small startups thinking big. Fortune 500 companies delivering larger-than-life innovations. Some of the best salmon and steelhead fishing in the world. Boasting the largest public marina on the West Coast. Home of the Everett Silvertips ice hockey team and AquaSox minor league baseball team. Enjoying more than 1,600 acres of beautiful parks, trails and playgrounds and nearly 50 miles of freshwater and saltwater shorelines.
All-America City. World-class destination. Welcome to Everett!"
--Official City of Everett Website
"From the high snowfields of the Cascade Mountains, the Skykomish River falls away to the west, gathering in each glistening mile the crystal waters from tumbling creeks and streams. The river rolls white through the rock canyons, then darkens under forests of cedar, fir, hemlock, and fern. It washes through drifts of broken granite and drops for silent moments into pools that flow more pure than an ideal more deep than a dream. It drops away again and again, pausing, then twisting and rushing on toward the lowland. In the foothills, at its confluence with the Snoqualmie, the river becomes the Snohomish. Then slow and wide , it moves with the depth of a thousand years to cut through the hills and spill over a broad estuary, to swing north around a peninsula of high ground, west again to Port Gardner Bay, to Puget Sound, and to the North Pacific Ocean."
-- from Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington by Norman H. Clark, pg. 1
"The Vashon Glacier once covered all of the Puget Sound region. It retreated 12,000 years ago. The fossil record consists of evidence of plants and animals including cedar and fir trees, horses, bison, caribou, wooly mammoths and mastodons. Our ancestors settled into this ancient landscape.
It did not take long to change our ancestral land once the new settlers arrived. Habitat suitable for raising a variety of young salmon disapeared as the first settlers began clear-cutting the forest, building roads, and re-channeling the Snohomish River. Prior to development, the lower estuary of the Snohomish River could support approximately 2.6 million young salmon."
--from "Take a Closer Look at the Snohomish River," Journey of the Tulalip People, Hibulb Cultural Center.
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