SnohomishWalks

02/07/2026

Final days to be part of Snohomish history. Because what is Snohomish, without its history? 👀

Preserve it 👉 https://www.gofundme.com/f/protect-the-blackman-house-essential-fire-security-system

02/01/2026

Hi friends - this is the Snohomish Historical Society's first public fundraising appeal in many years. For over a decade, basic maintenance, operations, and fundraising at Snohomish's only museum were left undone, and now we are hard at work trying to reopen and reshare the irreplaceable history that the Society stewards. This year will bring many major projects for the Society, but our first priority is keeping the 1878 museum secure and safe from disaster. Without its history, there is no Snohomish. Thank you for helping us protect it.

Hi everyone! The Snohomish Historical Society is raising mone… Taylor Russell needs your support for Protect the Blackman House: Essential Fire & Security System

12/07/2025

Next Sunday (December 14) marks the return of the annual Holiday Parlour Tour, a tradition over 50 years old! I've shared information and a brief history of the tour in my latest newsletter. Don't miss it!

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10/17/2025

Everyone's favorite parade day in Snohomish! ❤️🚸

In January 1953, the first homecoming celebration was held during half-time of a basketball game. 🏀

It was a modest ceremony that was switched to football season the next year, and in 1959, the pep rally became a parade marched through the streets of town. 🏈

This is the beginning of the annual Serpentine tradition, which continues today, and is one of only a few occasions in the state where students leave class to celebrate school spirit with their community. I think that is darned special. 🤩🙏✨

10/17/2025

Experience mid-century Snohomish through the history & highlights of one of our town's best storytellers, Mac Bates!

The last tour of the year is this Sunday, October 19, 11am.

Tickets available at https://snohomishwalks.square.site/

08/24/2025

This Saturday, join our town's best memoirist, Mac Bates, for a walking tour of mid-century Snohomish! 🌞 Hear small-town tales from a childhood spent on First Street in the 1950s and '60s.

We'll step back in time to the Snohomish Theatre (21+ for this stop!), Weed’s Variety, McKee’s Stationery, and more. Don’t miss this special edition tour! 🚶‍♀️🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏼

Saturday, August 30 | 10 a.m.

Tickets on the site https://snohomishwalks.square.site/

06/29/2025

My LAST pop-up market is happening now and Monday, June 29th and 30th.

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 802 First Street
(Snohomish's first gas station!)

It’s your chance to browse truly local antiques, grab final treasures for your Snohomish collection, and pick up a copy of the cemetery book.

Come by, say hi, and celebrate the people & places that built this town—hope to see you there!

06/25/2025

👉 June 29th & 30th 11-6 at (802 First Street)

Popping up for TWO DAYS ONLY. Last chance to chat all things local history and scoop up one-of-a-kind local goods (present and future antiques). I'll be there with all the books, pins, prints, and more. 🤗

🎉📚📜

06/18/2025

Inside the book:

🪦 The first true history of Snohomish’s pioneer cemetery
👀 Never-before-seen photos & historic maps
☠️ 19th-century death & mourning rituals of local ancestors
✍️ Stories of those still buried beneath our feet

Out now. Don’t miss it.

🔗 SnohomishCemetery.com

06/08/2025

Perched on a bluff overlooking the Pilchuck River, a sacred burial ground holds a forgotten past.

To Coast Salish families, and later American settlers, it was a place of reverence and rest. In 1876, it became Snohomish County’s first cemetery.

Within a few generations, the cemetery was abandoned, its records lost and graves forgotten. Soon, the burial ground had been bulldozed and built over. Local memory held faint traces of what had been. More than a century later, a descendant came looking for ancestors—and found instead a parking lot. Buried beneath was evidence of a past long denied.

This is a story of what the city forgot. 🪦

THE TELL-ALL BOOK IS AVAILABLE NOW. Get your copy at the link below.

Lost & Forgotten

04/03/2025

Announcing a must-have addition to the local bookshelf—
First Street Stories, a memoir by the one-and-only Mac Bates!

Mac is one of our town’s great storytellers. He captures Snohomish of the 1950s and ’60s as he remembers it: parades, storefronts and shopkeeps, a few disasters, and youthful misadventure. I’ve had the pleasure of developing this book with him, and it’s been a real treat to read. Growing up with the editor of the Snohomish Tribune (his father), Mac inherited a keen eye for character and story, and brings life to the everyday moments of First Street history.

For anyone who has wandered through Snohomish's downtown, this book is a tribute to its enduring small-town spirit.

📖🏘️✨

Pre-order the book at this link. We will deliver or arrange pickup mid-April!

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