The Edmonds market season has arrived, and for those who can’t wait to shop at the museum’s sales booth, you’re in luck: Volunteers will be on site for a massive book sale during the next four Saturdays. Stop by the museum’s booth at Centennial Plaza on Fifth and Bell May 19, May 26, June 2 [...]
Paper doll collector Nan Moorehead co-curated “Paper People Go To the Movies,” currently displayed at the Edmonds Historical Museum, 118 Fifth Ave. N. The show features two-dimensional images from the golden years of paper dolls, the 1920s through the 1950s, tapping out in the Brady Bunch years. Moorehead’s collection is so complete that it even [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of May, we’ll revisit 1922. The spring of 1922 brought with it a campaign for better housing in Edmonds. Sponsored by a number of local businessmen to increase the number [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of April, we’ll revisit 1922. With so many newspapers printing the social activities of their readers, Edmonds High School followed suit and printed those of its students in a spring [...]
The Edmonds Historical Museum will open its first exhibit of 2012 next week with “Weavers, Wobblies, and Woe: The story of shingle workers in Snohomish County.” The exhibit runs from Jan. 11 through March 4, 2012. Shingle mills were once Snohomish County’s economic backbone, and their employees — shingle weavers — were often regarded as [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of January, we’ll revisit 1918. Like many newspapers of its time, the Edmonds Tribune-Review often printed the comings and goings of its residents in a column called, “About Town.” Each [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of November, we’ll revisit 1887. In November 1887, Matthew E. Hyner was named postmaster of Edmonds. Hyner and his family arrived in Edmonds nine months prior, in February, when only [...]
Register by Monday, Oct. 3 to attend the Edmonds-South Snohomish County Historical Society’s annual dinner and program set for Friday, Oct. 14 at the Edmonds Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave. Guest speaker Louise Lindgren will talk on “Then and Now: A Century and More of Farming in Snohomish County.” In honor of the Edmonds-South Snohomish [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of October, we’ll revisit 1934. Edmonds, like many towns along the shores of the Puget Sound, has weathered its fair share of storms over the years. It is said that [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of September, we’ll revisit the school days of yesteryear. September is back-to-school month, and the Edmonds School District has a long and interesting history to celebrate this month. Edmonds School [...]
The following is from Historylink.org On August 23, 1884, George and Etta Brackett file a plat for the first townsite in Edmonds. The plat includes provisions for a mill site, water, and parks. It is the first plat filed in a spot that will grow to become the second largest city in Snohomish County. Founder [...]
The City of Edmonds this Thursday will present results of a survey of historic resources at the regularly scheduled Historic Preservation Commission meeting, 5:30 p.m. in the Brackett meeting room, 3rd floor of Edmonds City Hall. Prepared by The Johnson Partnership, this survey project has expanded on a 2004 survey of historic sites in the [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of August, we’ll revisit 1929. On Aug. 29, 1929, the first movie with sound was shown in Edmonds. Broadway Melody opened to a packed house at Princess Theater that night, [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of July, we’ll revisit the 1930s. By the 1930s, population in Edmonds had surpassed 1,100 and the city was faring better than larger and more highly industrialized communities. During these [...]
In its early years, the economic growth of Edmonds was closely tied to the railroads. So it was only fitting that the Edmonds Historical Museum on Saturday opened a Train Room to the delight of railroad fans of all ages, featuring a model train created by local businessman Donald Drew. Drew, who passed away in 2008, [...]
Come explore the pages of Edmonds’ history through libraries, books and printing at the Edmonds Historical Museum Carnegie Library Centennial exhibit, open now through July 17. The exhibit traces the history of Edmonds’ first public library, which opened its doors in February 1911 and now houses the museum, located at 118 5th Ave. N. Exhibit [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of April, we’ll revisit 1928. In April 1928, Edmonds suffered its second major downtown fire. The fire started in the back room of a building occupied by the Edmonds [...]
One hundred years ago, on Feb. 17, 1911, a new library opened in Edmonds on 118 5th Ave. N. The building was funded through the foundation of self-made millionaire Andrew Carnegie, who believed that libraries should be available to everyone. The brick and stone building, which is now on the National Register of Historic Buildings, [...]
Did you ever visit the doctor’s office where Semantics Gallery is now located? Did you tap dance at the Edmonds Center for the Arts when you were a child? Do you know people who stayed at the old motel or lived there when it became apartments? The Cultural Heritage Tour project, recently funded with a [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of February, we’ll revisit 1911. On February 17, 1911, Edmonds’ Carnegie Library opened its doors to the public. The building was erected largely through the efforts of city librarian Rev. [...]
The Edmonds Historical Museum has appointed a new director, Tarin Erickson. A Pacific Northwest native, Erickson received an undergraduate degree in Journalism-Public Relations from Western Washington University in 2003, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Art and Design from Savannah College in Savannah, Georgia. She has experience working in museums in both Savannah and [...]
My Edmonds News is proud to present a monthly look at Edmonds history, straight from the archives of the Edmonds Historical Museum. For the month of January, we’ll revisit 1925. The election of Edmonds Mayor in December 1924 was expected to be a foregone conclusion with incumbent M. C. Engels having been re-nominated with no [...]
According to HistoryLink.org, on Dec. 29, 1996, the weight of heavy snow collapses roofs at the Port of Edmonds Marina, sinking more than 200 boats and damaging hundreds of others. The snow, which blankets the Pacific Northwest between Christmas 1996 and New Year’s Day, also damages marinas at Oak Harbor, Kingston, Port Orchard, and the [...]
What do New Year’s Day, beer, bathrobes and history have in common? Well, if you’re in Edmonds, those are the elements of our town’s own Polar Bear Plunge, which celebrates its fourth year this Saturday at Brackett’s Landing. The festivities start at 11 a.m. at Daphnes, 415 1/2 Main St., where members of the Edmonds [...]
The perfect gift idea for the history buff on your list? Historic Edmonds Playing Cards, now on sale at the Edmonds Museum Store. Cost is $8 per deck or two decks for $15, and they are available during regular business hours, Wednesday-Sunday from 1-4 p.m. The Edmonds Museum is located at 118 5th Ave. N. [...]
It was a family reunion of sorts at the house of Edmonds Mayor Mike Cooper Wednesday morning. Officially, Cooper and his wife Chrystal were commemorating the addition of their Maple Street home — known as the Palmer House — to the Edmonds Register of Historic Places. Unofficially, the event provided an opportunity for three members [...]
Newcomers to Edmonds may not realize the history behind the Edmonds Log Cabin, located at 120-5th Ave. N. , next to the Edmonds Historical Museum. The cabin, originally located in the Seaview neighborhood and moved to its current site , was donated to the City of Edmonds by the Hanley family, which had used it [...]
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