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Skagit River Journal

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Noel V. Bourasaw, editor (bullet) 810 Central Ave., Sedro-Woolley, Washington, 98284
Home of the Tarheel Stomp (bullet) Mortimer Cook slept here & named the town Bug

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Please read about and visit these sponsors who make this entire project possible
Joy's Sedro-Woolley Bakery
Celebrating 100 years of Sedro-Woolley bakeries, operated by the extended Joy family
823 Metcalf St. downtown
(360) 855-0610
Read our history!

Oliver Hammer Clothes Shop
New clothes with old-fashioned service for 82 years. Located in the historic Livermore Ford garage and Safeway grocery building
817 Metcalf St. downtown
(360) 855-0395
Oliver Hammer Clothes Shop historical website

Jones and Solveig Atterberry,
NorthWest Properties Aiken & Associates

Please let us show you residential and commercial property in Sedro-Woolley and Skagit County
2204 Riverside Drive, Mount Vernon, WA
360 708-8935
360 708-1729
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More great places to
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Bus Jungquist Furniture
Serving Skagit County in Sedro-Woolley since 1967 in the historic J.C. Penney and Ludwick-Wuest building
829 Metcalf St. (360) 855-0828
Bus Jungquist Furniture historical website


Sedro-Woolley Museum
Main Street USA with 7
showrooms, model trains, vehicles

725 Murdock St. downtown
http://www.sedrowoolleymuseum.homestead.comMuseum homepage


Hal's Drive-In
Historic and fast food since 1949
Three great locations
321 State St. (360) 855-0868 & Hwy. 20, Concrete Also Dari-Delite in Mount Vernon


State Street Deli
leisurely lunch in the historic
restored H. Bean Hardware building

420 State, Sedro-Woolley
(360) 855-2917

Check into historic
Sedro-Woolley first:

(bullet) Hammer Heritage Square downtown park, opened 2005
(bullet) Riverside RV Park Picnic and BBQ by the Skagit
(bullet) Wide variety of restaurants
(bullet) Historic murals/chainsaw carvings (bullet) Gifts
(bullet) Sedro-Woolley Museum (bullet) Historic walking tour


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(Board of Trade, new-Sedro) New Sedro 1890
(Hotel Sedro) Hotel Sedro 1890
Pre Sedro
Old & New Sedro
Old Woolley
Consolidation/Merger of 2 towns
Sedro-Woolley from WWI through WWII
Modern Sedro-Woolley since World War II,
schools, groups, churches and clubs

Odds & Ends: pioneer & business profiles
Northern State, Duke's Hill, Warner's Prairie, Prairie, Skyou, Sterling
Clear Lake, Big Lake, Day Creek, Lake McMurray


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Pre Sedro
(Hotel Sedro)
Hotel Sedro, 1890-97
Click for early photos of Sedro




Old & New Sedro

Bingham family and bank & Renos, LaPlants and Odlins

More old-Sedro photos

Old Woolley
(Dream Theater)
Dream Theater 1917
built by Dad and Ben Abbott
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Consolidation of Sedro and Woolley

Sedro-Woolley after World War I through World War II

Modern Sedro-Woolley since World War II

Churches, organizations, lodges and fraternal groups

Sedro-Woolley schools history

Odds and Ends articles from old newspapers: Sedro-Woolley pioneers & businesses

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(bullet) Upriver stories and profiles
(bullet) All new logging and Mills section


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Please let us show you residential and commercial property in Sedro-Woolley and Skagit County 2204 Riverside Drive, Mount Vernon, Washington . . . 360 708-8935 . . . 360 708-1729
(bullet) Oliver Hammer Clothes Shop at 817 Metcalf Street in downtown Sedro-Woolley, 86 years.
(bullet) Joy's Sedro-Woolley Bakery-Cafe at 823 Metcalf Street in downtown Sedro-Woolley.
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