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Darrington, Washington
Darrington is nestled at the base of
the rugged North Cascade Mountains and
is encircled and protected by mountain barriers.
Towering in the background toward the southwest is Whitehorse Mountain at an
elevation of 6,563 feet. And southeast of Darrington isGlacier
Peak at an elevation of
10,541 feet, the highest point in Snohomish County
and one of the Cascade Volcanoes.
This picturesque community
of 1,300 residents was first established as a night camp for the wagon route linking the Monte Cristo
mines to the Puget Sound area.
The Sauk and Suiattle tribes populated the area until the arrival of white
miners in search of gold and silver in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
But the commercial value of
mining eventually was overshadowed by the profits to be made from logging,
and it was loggers of Swedish, Irish, Welsh, and Norwegian decent, and a
large contingent of loggers from North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee,
that founded the community.
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