The Lowell Annexation Debate
As Everett eyes expansion, the independent spirit of the neighboring mill town of Lowell hits a roadblock.
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Lowell has decided that she does not want to become a part of Everett. It is for her to decide, of course, but she belongs naturally to this city and sometime, will come in. Ballard and Georgetown hung fire a good many years on the question of annexation with Seattle but finally had to get in and it will be the same with Lowell. Incidentally, we wonder what part the paper mill played in the 'nearly unanimous' decision of the citizens of Lowell to play in their own back yard.
“We wonder what part the paper mill played in the 'nearly unanimous' decision of the citizens of Lowell to play in their own back yard.”
Annexation politics were a defining feature of Washington's urban growth in the early 20th century. Today, Lowell is a neighborhood within Everett, demonstrating the eventual inevitability the author predicted.
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