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cultures in the area. With the exception of railroad development just beyond and downslope of the western boundary, much of the APE seems to have escaped the typical western Washington metro - area cycle of rapid urbanization. In January of 1861, the territorial legislature created Snohomish County, making Mukilteo its temporary County seat pending elections. In July of that same year, the first County post office was built, and Jacob Fowler, one of the two original homesteaders on the site, was appointed postmaster. In 1870, two enterprising Mukilteo businesses were founded; what became the Eagle Brewery set up in a ravine that was later called Brewery Gulch, and a salmon -salting business that later became a salmon cannery was built by Vining & Rheinbruner. Mukilteo was also an important hub for the logging business (Riddle 2007). The Crown Lumber Company opened on the waterfront in 1903 and attracted Japanese mill workers who settled in the small mill town built by the company along the ravine and drainage that became known as Japanese Gulch. The mill workers often supplemented their diet with fish caught in nearby Japanese Creek (Odoi 2014). Crown Lumber was the major employer in Mukilteo during the 1920s, but was closed in 1930 when the Great Depression hit, causing the workers to move away to find other jobs (Mukilteo Historical Society 2014). The 1936 Metsker Atlas map of Snohomish County shows Crown Lumber Company as the major landowner within the project APE; Puget Mill Company and Merrill & Ring Logging Company also owned land nearby (Figure 6). Figure 6. Portion of Metsker 1936 map showing platted landholdings overlain on Google Earth; APE outlined in red. Tierra Archaeological Report No. 2014-077 12