- It runs through Minneapolis on the near north side and defines the border between the Bryn Mawr neighborhood to the south and the Harrison neighborhood to the north. The area was the site of two prosperous businesses in the late 19th century: Fruen Mill and Glenwood-Inglewood Water Company, the latter still operating today, at the northwest end of Bryn Mawr.
- Lake Stevens — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
The city of Lake Stevens in Snohomish County, about eight miles east of Everett, is named after the glacial lake it surrounds. The lake was named, on an 1855 map, for Washington Territory Governor Isaac I. Stevens (1818-1862). Settlers began claiming land around the lake in the late 1800s. Early in the twentieth century, Rucker Brothers Timber Company built a rail line to the lake and a sawmill there, drawing workers and their families to the area…