Plat of Sehome

Plat of Sehome

1858

1858

Main Street is State Street

and Washington and Jackson are Forest and Garden Streets respectively. The cross streets leading down to the shoreline were to be named for local and state personages, including Territorial Governor Isaac Ingals Stevens and Captain (later General) George Pickett. Today all these streets carry the names of common tree: Maple, Pine, Chestnut, Laurel, etc. It should be noted also that the 80-feet wide streets, though on a rectangular grid, are not aligned with the township/range survey, then in the early stages of its bottom righthand corner of the map.
Growth of the town was slow, and before steady development came in the late 1880s a number of amendments were made to the original plat, the most important of them being the 1883 plat of New Whatcom initiated by P.B. Cornwall.

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