Everett Is Born—But Its First City Limits Leave Out the Mills and Tide Flats
County commissioners granted Everett’s incorporation but drew the boundaries to exclude Lowell, the paper mill, nail works, barge works, smelter and tide flats—setting a March 29 election.
EVERETT, March 3. [Special.]—The petition for the incorporation of Everett was granted by the county commissioners today. The limits are the same as recommended by the citizens' meeting and leave out Lowell, the paper mill, nail works, barge works, smelter and tide flats north of the line of section 19. The election is appointed for March 29.
“The limits are the same as recommended by the citizens' meeting and leave out Lowell, the paper mill, nail works, barge works, smelter and tide flats north of the line of section 19.”
Everett’s first boundaries were a tax and governance choice as much as a map: the new city left out the paper mill, nail works, barge works, smelter and tide flats, separating residential taxpayers from industrial waterfront. Modern annexation fights still turn on the same question of who pays for city services and who gets to vote.
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