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54 stories matching squatter
- The Squatter at Point Roberts
A persistent settler claims a strategic military reserve, forcing the U.S. government to defend its borders against encroaching private interests.
- State Land Is 'Marked State' and Sitting Idle — A Settler Offers 200 Families a Home
A Jefferson County settler writes to the editor offering to plant up to 200 families on vacant state land in the Queets Valley, warning that locked-up acreage means no roads, no growth and no homes.
- Squatter’s Rights and the Railroad Tie Cutters
A land dispute in Maple Valley leads to the arrest of six men accused of harvesting timber on claimed but contested land.
- The Haunted Spring Mystery of Lake Washington
A lonely squatter in the dense forests of early Seattle hears a terrifying, otherworldly wail that threatens his sanity until he discovers the source in the brush.