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Format Once called the “City of Smokestacks,” Everett has a long
association with industry and labor. Its first beginnings were
two Native American settlements at opposite sides of the heavily
wooded region, one on the Snohomish River and the other on Port
Gardner Bay. Platted in the 1890s and named after the son of an
early investor, it soon attracted the attention of East Coast
money. Over the next 100 years, Everett would be a formidable
logging mill and industrial center. In 2005, Everett numbered
96,000 citizens. The Port Gardner Peninsula is a point of land
bound by the Snohomish River on its east flank and northern tip
and by Port Gardner Bay on the west. People have inhabited the
Everett Peninsula for more than 10,000 years. In recent
centuries, Hibulb (or Hebolb), the principal village of the
Snohomish tribe stood at the northwest point of the peninsula.
Its location near the