[Loscho_Enews] Fwd: Historian David Dilgard lectures on When the Railroad Came to Snohomish in September

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From: Kate Mossman <KMossman at everettwa.gov>
Date: Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Subject: Historian David Dilgard lectures on When the Railroad Came to
Snohomish in September
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 September 16, 2013****

Press Release****

For Immediate Release****

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*When the Railroad Came to Snohomish*

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In 1888, Snohomish finally got its railroad, but didn’t get all it
bargained for.****

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Everett Public Library Northwest Room historian David Dilgard tells what
happened in 1888 when the Seattle, Lake Shore, & Eastern Railway came to
Snohomish. This free program will be at 2 p.m. Sunday September 22 at the
Everett Public Library Auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Avenue in Everett. ****

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In the mid-1880s, Snohomish’s town fathers agitated hard for a railroad,
anxious to link the town’s logging and lumber concerns to markets north and
south, and maybe link up to a transcontinental line. It could mean a
bonanza for this small inhabited island in a forested wilderness.****

Speculation about the railroad’s coming fueled the construction of many of
the notable buildings in the downtown core. The Snohomish Eye’s
agricultural editor George W. Head even wrote a song about the railroad’s
coming, called “When the Lake Shore & Eastern Is Done.”  Here’s a verse:****

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A place that for years has been counted as dead,****

To new business and life it will come;****

We all can have ‘wealth’ to go where we please****

When the Lake shore & Eastern is done.****

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In 1888 Snohomish got its link, as the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
railroad laid its track through the town and beyond. But it didn’t quite
turn out as foreseen. ****

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This program is free.****

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For further information, please call 425-257-8000. ****

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forwarded by -
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Karen Prasse
League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations
info at snocoheritage.org
www.snocoheritage.org
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