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Format Loggers founded the King County community that became
Bothell in the 1880s. After the trees were cut, Bothell became a
farm community on the highway between Seattle and Everett. After
World War II, the community grew into a suburb as homes took
over the farms and dairy pastures. Between 1950 and 1992, the
city expanded and the population multiplied 25 times. By the end
of the twentieth century, Bothell reached out of King County and
had become the third largest employment center in Snohomish
County. The earliest known residents of the Sammamish River and
what would become Bothell were a Native American tribe that
called themselves s-tsah-PAHBSH or "willow people." These were
members of a larger group called hah-chu-AHBSH or "people of the
lake" and the Duwamish Tribe. The Willow People built a
permanent settlement of cedar longhouses they called tlah-WAH-
dees along a river the