Bothell WA history

Some of these tribe members were known to have joined in the attack on Seattle on January 26, 1856.

As early as 1867, farmers transported produce down the Sammamish River in boats to Seattle.

In 1870, Columbus S. Greenleaf and George R. Wilson filed land claims in the area abandoned by the Sammamish near present-day Bothell, and built homes.

Beginning in 1874, the 44-foot steamer Minnie Mae began serving Bothell and other Lake Washington communities from Union Bay (near the future University of Washington) in Seattle.

In 1876, Canadian George Brackett bought land and began commercial logging out of a camp located on the north bank of the Sammamish River in what is now the heart of downtown Bothell.

In 1885, Brackett sold 80 acres to David Bothell, a settler from Pennsylvania.

A sawmill rose at Brackett's Landing in 1887.

Ericksen became the local postmaster on May 25, 1888.

The first bank opened in 1908.

Steamboat Mayblossom (later City of Bothell) on the Sammamish River at Bothell, 1910

In May 1913, with Gerhard Ericksen's help in the Legislature, a highway was completed from Seattle through Lake City and Kenmore to Bothell and Everett.

A portion of the original 1914 brick road which connected Bothell with Seattle still exists near the southwest corner of SR-522 and Waynita Way.

Most boat traffic came to an abrupt end only a few years later when Lake Washington was lowered in 1917.