Jeremiah W. Borst (1830 – August 10, 1890)[1] was the first permanent white settler in the upper Snoqualmie Valley region.

In the spring of 1858, Borst was on his way to Eastern Washington over the Cedar River trail, decided that the Snoqualmie Valley was too good to pass up.

[5] In 1865, Borst accompanied Seattle pioneer Arthur Denny, William Perkins and a Snoqualmie native guide visited Snoqualmie Pass to make a plan to widen the trail to a wagon road.

Borst and his family moved to Fall City, where in 1887 he and Kate filed the official plat for the town[8] in anticipation of the arrival of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway to the Valley.

Borst died of typhoid fever on August 10, 1890, at Green River Hot Springs, Washington.