Utsalady, Washington

The first settlers of European origin arrived in 1853; two years later Utsalady was exporting timber as far as the shipyards at Brest in France and, by 1860, to Shanghai.

[4] In 1870, the community had 54 houses, 147 people, a blacksmith shop, telegraph, a saloon, a shipyard and a school.

As of 1883, sailing ships were carrying away 74,000 board feet of timber daily.

[4] Utsalady was a base from which settlers headed to the Stillaguamish and Skagit Valleys on the mainland.

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