D. O. Pearson House, Stanwood
(National Register of Historic
Places).
The D. O. Pearson House was the
home of the first mayor of Stanwood. He arrived in the area when it was
still called Centreville and established the town’s first general store
in 1877. As Postmaster, he renamed the town Stanwood for his wife,
Clara. Stanwood was her maiden name. The house was built in
1890. It was placed on the National and State Registers of Historic
Places in 1973. It is a three-story Second Empire Victorian Home with a
mansard roof and roof cresting (or widow's walk) and is open as a Period
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Little White Church on the Hill,
Silvana, Washington
(Washington State Register of Historic
Places, 1972)
The building was completed in 1890
with funds raised by the ladies aid of the congregation which formed about
1882-1884 The church is located about 1/2 mile west of Silvana on Pioneer
Highway (just over the bridge) overlooking the scenic Stillaguamish River
Valley. For more information
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Toftezen Memorial, Lutheran
Cemetery
Pioneer Highway, Stanwood.
Martin Zacharias Toftezon (Taftezon)
Washington's first Norwegian settler arrived on Whidbey Island in 1849.
Members of his family followed and settled near Hatt Slough (on the Stillaguamish
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Hevly Cash Store at Florence,
Washington circa 1910. Florence was one of the earliest towns
on the Stillaguamish River in Snohomish County. It was platted in
1866 and actively competed with Stanwood (downriver) as a commercial center
until the Great Northern Railroad bypassed it and the steamboats could
no longer make it up the river. There are only a few residences left
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| The Utsalady Ladies Aid Building
was built in 1923. Utsalady is on the northern shoreline of Camano
Island in Puget Sound, the site of an early mill. It was and continues
to be an important symbolic place as the heart of this small community
on Camano Island in Washington State. In 1999 it was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places. |
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Camano Pioneer Cemetery,
located on Hwy 532 at Terry's Corner
Camano Island, Washington |
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| This cabin was originally part
of the Cama Beach Resort which is soon to re-open as Cama Beach
State Park. This resort opened in 1934 and closed officially
in 1989. Washington State Parks
purchased it in the early 1990's and it is now being developed as a new
State Park. It is scheduled to re-open in 2006. It is on the National
Register of Historic Places. |
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Camano Lutheran Church, Camano Island
Washington State Register of Historic
Places
The Camano Lutheran Church was established in 1890 in Utsalady. In 1895, the congregation held services in the Livingston Bay school which was located across the road. That school was bought and moved on site and now is the Pioneer Hall. Construction of this church building began in 1904 and was dedicated July 9, 1906. There is a small plaque near the front door of the old church (east entrance) noting that it is on the State Register of Historic Places. |
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| The traditional white schoolhouse building on the right is now known as the
Camano City Community Hall. It overlooks Saratoga Passage on the western shoreline of Camano Island where there once was a shingle mill, store, hotel and a short logging railroad. It was built as the Camano City School about 1906. |
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Stanwood Fraternal International Order of
Odd Fellows Hall (IOOF), Stanwood, now the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center,
Stanwood, WA
Built in 1903, this sturdy timber structure has survived many
years to host music, arts and cultural and family events as it once did in the
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From the left, is the Stanwood
Area History Museum(1990), Stanwood's D.O.Pearson House
(circa 1890), Tolin House (1880s) located on the corner on the
102nd Ave. NW (Old Pacific Highway or Market Street), one of the
oldest streets in Snohomish County. On the far right is
the former Stanwood Fraternal I.O.O.F
Hall (1903), now known as the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center.
These buildings are the oldest buildings in Stanwood dating to
the early 1890s located two blocks from the Stillaguamish River waterfront, once a
steamboat stop for the lumber and grain produced by the two
nearby sawmills and surrounding farms. |
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