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Bellingham beats out Whathaven as new name
ecoming one city made it a lot easier for some Bellingham folks to remember their mailing address. For example, Ella Higginson, the noted poet, said she'd lived in four towns without even moving.
family on Bellingham Bay could rightly think the future looked bright.
• The Alaskan frontier was settled.
airhaven looks pretty good from where the new sculpture of Dirty Dan Harris, the man who platted the town, lolls on a bench in the Village Green.
aniel Jefferson Harris, one of the early white settlers of what would become Whatcom County, left a legacy by platting Fairhaven in 1883.
The Princess Sophia stopped at Citizens Dock in downtown Bellingham, circa 1916. The dock, which has since been dismantled, was Bellingham's steamship terminal from 1913 to 1937.
he first tale of European discovery of what is now Whatcom County came in 1592.
y the time the Bellingham Bay cities merged into the new city of Bellingham, the Whatcom County terrain had been radically changed for its first inhabitants as incoming settlers built houses and logging encampments, felled trees and blew apart logjams to make their lives and commerce easier.
n the Lummi Reservation's cobble beach, 15 Lummi children bid farewell to their parents and siblings for the first time, piling into dugout cedar canoes bound for Chemewa Boarding School in Salem, Ore.
ost people who lived in the cities of Fairhaven and New Whatcom in 1900 were born in another country, or had foreign parents.