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� 12 Hbtoricai Baeksrouad: The birth of[he town of Everca was almost instantaneous. In 1891,whrn work crews began clearing land to build this indusmal boomrown.[herc were only a few settlers around Port Gudner Bay. By 1893.when the ciry waz incorporated. Hewitt was a main street of brick buildings and board walks linking the river wi[h[he port. Then werc factoriee on che waterfron:and homcs among the stumps on the muddy sQeea of�ivenide, Bayside and Port Gardner. The new factories and the shipyard had scarcely started production when the Panic of 1893.a serious na�ional depression.chreatennd to end EverccYs development u quickly as it began. A new econcmic boom in l9Q0 saved the town..Trains coming west brought new immigranu to the city and the ciry's populacion�ripled in :en years. Downtown Evercct became a thriving center af shops.offices,theaters, hotels and saloons. Frederick We�erhaeuser built a mazsive new lumber mill on the bay and other timber related induscries filled in around his mill. His influence combined wich[hat of Butler and other bankers and investors detertnined Everctt's future u a mill town. Mil!owners,bankers,and businessmen built sw[ely homes on Rucker Hill and Grend,�venue overlooking�he bay. Mitl workers and small shop keepecs built simple cona¢es on small locs close co the mills. This surge of indusaiai e�pansion and popula�ion growth that began wi[h che artival of the new century was concluded by the outbreak of Wodd War 1. By thac time the prcssures of massive immi¢ration and an esploitaci�e - industrial system had enipted inco deadly�iolence with a 19(6 shoo[out�hat hu come ta be known as che"Evere¢ Massacre." Unsealed times continued after the Grcat War and it wasn't until[he Twenties chat another boom brouaht prosperity to Everett. The Japanese earthquake damage of 19?3 boosted lumber prices and[he nert few years saw record construction activi[y in Everett. In 1929, the Depression ended an era in the Yation and in Everetc. This is a recent past. for some hardly historv. btany in Everctt still rcmember che differcnt whistles of the individual mills,a chriving downcown and the view ouc over the smokestacks. The tangible record of Evercn's pas�remains in a few classic buildings downtown.the lay-out of the ciry benveen the river and bay and possitly mos[important in the nei¢hborhoods wherc people live. In[he neighborhoods people have adapted. moldad and gracefully changed che paRerns chat were set in 1893 to meec the needs of 1993. The RUCKER/GRAYD nei¢hborhood,part of the original Bayside azea, is located on the bluff overlooking Port Gardner. Many of che mill owners built grand homes hero a�ove their mills. Mixed in amang these stylish homes were che modest homes of saloonkeepers, lu;nbermen,and small business owners. Both types of homes have been preserved and well cued for. Many of che large homes have been divided into apartments and the small homes are comfortable family homes. On Rucker and Grond,the spin[of the put haz been prcserved in a rcmarkabiy livable neiehborhood. - The Butler/Jackson Home The Bu[IerlJackson Home, one of the prceminent RuckerGrand hames. sicc on the bluff ae 1703 Grand Avenue and looks over Grand Avenue Park, across che wa[erfront and Port Gardner Bay to the Olympic Mountains. The differences in the nvo men who lived in this home and who in many ways eremplified their eras is rcflected not in the changes in the house in which they both resided but in the ertreme change m the view from the house over the watecfront. William C. Butler,one of the tum of the tentury "Captains ot Indusm". looked out over a waterfront filled with mills, many of which he owned. The smoke from che mills covered che waterfront and oRen obscured the mountains beyond. The view now is over a"state of the ari' US Navy Homeport, one of the many legacies of the late Senator Henry"Scoop"Jacksan,who was known fur his dedicacian to military and particularly naval preparedness. He also is in part responsible for ehe clear �iew brcause of his promation of environmental protection. The Nacional Environmental Policy .4ct. which he helped auchor wu che first national legislation to define environmental goals and standards. 55