- Kent, Washington
- unnamed King County, Washington
- Lake Morton-Berrydale, Washington
- Lake Holm, Washington
- Lake Tapps, Washington
- Sumner, Washington
- Pacific, Washington
- Algona, Washington
- Lakeland South, Washington
- Federal Way, Washington
- Lakeland North, Washington
- Auburn — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
The city of Auburn, located 20 miles south of Seattle, was home to some of the earliest non-Native settlers in King County. Nestled in a fertile river valley, Auburn has been both a farm community and a center of business and industry for more than 150 years.
- Yesler, Henry L. (1810?-1892) (historylink.org)
Henry Yesler was a middle-aged man when he arrived at Elliott Bay in October 1852 and quickly established himself as the most important resident of the rain-swept little spot that would soon become Seattle. He had the first steam-powered sawmill on Puget Sound up and running within months, and for several years he employed almost every male settler in Seattle and a considerable number of Native Americans. His mill was early Seattle’s only industry, and without it the town’s development would have been greatly delayed. For the first 40 years of Seattle’s existence Yesler, joined in 1858 by his wife, Sarah Burgert Yesler (1822-1887), played a part in nearly every important civic event and undertaking and held several public offices, although he was largely uninterested in politics. Known as both a generous benefactor and a litigious rascal, such was the respect granted him by contemporaries that his less-admirable traits were largely ignored by chroniclers of the city’s early history. Yesler’s sawmills were only sometimes profitable, and success in other industries and commerce usually eluded him, but by the time of his death his large property holdings in what had become the city’s commercial core made him wealthy beyond all expectations.
- Auburn, Washington (Wikipedia)
Auburn (Lushootseed: sladə) is a city in King County, Washington, United States (with a small portion crossing into neighboring Pierce County). The population was 87,256 at the 2020 Census, and was estimated at 85,513 in 2024. Auburn is a suburb in the Seattle metropolitan area, and is currently ranked as the 15th most populous city in the state of Washington.
- Auburn (Wikivoyage)
Auburn is a city in south King County in the Puget Sound region of Washington.