Editing Mukilteo, Washington (section)

===Establishment and early history===
[[File:Native Americans in canoes on Mukilteo Beach, circa 1861–62.jpeg|thumb|left|A photograph of American settlers and Native Americans on the beach in Mukilteo, {{circa}} 1861–62]]

The Snohomish people had a year-round village in the Mukilteo area for at least 600 years before the arrival of European and American explorers in the 19th century. Early artifacts uncovered during waterfront construction in the 2010s were [[carbon dating|carbon dated]] to 1,000 [[years before present]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Sheets |first=Bill |date=March 22, 2012 |title=Indian artifacts found at Mukilteo dock site |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/indian-artifacts-found-at-mukilteo-dock-site/ |work=[[The Everett Herald]] |access-date=July 17, 2018}}</ref>

The [[Vancouver Expedition]], led by British explorer [[George Vancouver]], visited the area on May 30, 1792, and landed at modern-day Mukilteo the following day. Lieutenant [[William Robert Broughton]] and botanist [[Archibald Menzies]] named the site "Rose Point" after the wild [[Rosa nutkana|Nootka roses]] that grew along the shore.<ref name="HistoryLink" /><ref>{{cite journal |last=Whitebrook |first=Robert B. |date=July 1953 |title=From Cape Flattery to Birch Bay: Vancouver's Anchorages on Puget Sound |page=125 |journal=[[Pacific Northwest Quarterly]] |publisher=University of Washington Press |volume=44 |issue=3 |issn=0030-8803 |jstor=41442095 |oclc=2392232}}</ref> An American expedition led by [[Charles Wilkes]] in 1841 renamed the headland "Point Elliott" for Samuel Elliott, a midshipman.<ref name="Meany" />

After its 1853 establishment, the [[Washington Territory|Washington territorial government]] looked to negotiate treaties with the local tribes of the Puget Sound region to secure land for settlement. On January 22, 1855, representatives from the territorial government and 82 local tribes signed the [[Treaty of Point Elliott]], which ceded tribal territories in exchange for compensation, the establishment of Indian reservations, and access to traditional hunting and fishing areas.<ref>{{cite news |last=Guydelkon |first=Sherry |date=January 19, 2005 |title=Point Elliott Treaty, 159 years later |url=http://www.tulalipnews.com/wp/2014/01/19/point-elliott-treaty-159-years-later/ |work=Tulalip See-Yaht-Sub |access-date=July 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Crowley |first1=Walt |author-link1=Walt Crowley |last2=Long |first2=Priscilla |last3=Lange |first3=Greg |date=October 12, 2001 |title=When worlds collide: reservations and rights |page=B7 |work=[[The Seattle Times]]}}</ref> An American settlement at Point Elliott was established two years later by Morris H. Frost and J. D. Fowler, two merchants from [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="Times-Trade">{{cite news |last=McDonald |first=Lucile |author-link=Lucile Saunders McDonald |date=February 23, 1964 |title=Mukilteo's Early Trading-Post Era |page=2 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The two men established a store and saloon on the southwest side of Point Elliott,<ref name="WSDOTEIS">{{cite report |author1=Northwest Archaeological Associates |author2=Steven W. Carothers and Associates |date=April 1, 2013 |title=Mukilteo Multimodal Project Cultural Resources Discipline Report |pages=26–39 |url=https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/6D5CCD5A-3981-4595-A68A-6E1C8928516E/0/CulturalResourcesDisciplineReport_Part1.pdf |work=Mukilteo Multimodal Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement |publisher=[[Washington State Department of Transportation]] |ref={{SfnRef|Washington State Department of Transportation|2013}} |oclc=795410084 |access-date=July 23, 2018}}</ref> which was renamed to Mukilteo in 1860 by Fowler, using an [[Anglicisation|anglicized]] name of the Lushootseed campsite.<ref name="HistoryLink"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Humphrey |first=Robert |date=August 10, 1988 |title=A trip back into the old days of Mukilteo |page=H2 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref>

Mukilteo was the area's first [[trading post]] and served as the interim [[county seat]] of the newly created [[Snohomish County, Washington|Snohomish County]] beginning January 14, 1861.<ref name="HistoryLink"/><ref>{{cite book |date=January 14, 1861 |title=Session Laws of the Territory of Washington |chapter=An Act to Create and Organize Snohomish County |pages=19–20 |url=http://leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/documents/sessionlaw/1860pam1.pdf |publisher=[[Washington Territorial Legislature]] |via=[[Washington State Legislature]] |access-date=July 17, 2018}}</ref> In the first county elections on July 8, 1861, the county seat was moved to Cadyville (now [[Snohomish, Washington|Snohomish]]) by a 17–10 vote. Mukilteo remained the county's only port and a major trading post for the [[Possession Sound]] region, and soon after received the county's first [[post office]] and [[electrical telegraph|telegraph]] station.<ref name="Times-Trade"/> The town was relocated to another, more protected side of Point Elliott and supported the regional lumber industry, including regular shipments to Whidbey Island and a sawmill of its own.{{Sfn|Washington State Department of Transportation|2013|pp=27–28}} By the 1880s, it had also gained a [[brewery]], a gunpowder plant, and the Puget Sound region's first [[cannery]].<ref name="HistoryLink"/><ref name="Times-Trade"/> Mukilteo was planned to become the largest port on Possession Sound, with a [[summer resort]] accessible by [[steamship]], but the efforts ceased after the establishment of nearby [[Everett, Washington|Everett]] by East Coast industrialists.<ref name="Times-Trade"/><ref name="Illustrated1906">{{cite book |editor1-last=Hastie |editor1-first=Thomas P. |editor2-last=Batey |editor2-first=David |editor3-last=Sisson |editor3-first=E.A. |editor4-last=Graham |editor4-first=Albert L. |title=An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties |page=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00inte/page/370 370] |chapter=Chapter VI: Cities and Towns |publisher=Interstate Publishing Company |location=Chicago |year=1906 |lccn=06030900 |oclc=11299996 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00inte |via=[[The Internet Archive]] |access-date=July 18, 2018}}</ref>