- Late night. I looked out the back window and saw a jacketed man standing on top of our shed. He was not moving. I turned off the lights to avoid being seen but he disappeared. I went outside to investigate and discovered a key inserted into our side garage door, unlocked, and upon entering the garage woke up screaming. Later I dreamed I was a sniper and felt the distinct experience of it being wrong.
- 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…