Puget Sound · WA
Edmonds
A shingle-mill town turned ferry landing.
- Population
- 42,853 (2020 census)
- Incorporated
- 1890
- Kingston ferry
- 1923
Then
- Before 1870s
The Suquamish fish and forage at the beach that is now downtown.
- 1876
George Brackett moves his family to Point Edmund to build a town.
- 1890
Edmonds incorporates on August 14. Four shingle mills thrive that decade.
- 1923
Car ferry service to Kingston begins.
Now
The 27-acre Edmonds Underwater Park draws about 25,000 divers a year.