- 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…
- Port Macquarie (Wikipedia)
Port Macquarie, locally nicknamed Port, is a coastal city the local government area of Port Macquarie-Hastings. It is located on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, about 390 km (242 mi) north of Sydney, and 570 km (354 mi) south of Brisbane. The city is located on the Tasman Sea coast, at the mouth of the Hastings River, and at the eastern end of the Oxley Highway (B56). The city with its suburbs had a population of 47,973 in June 2018 and an estimated population of 50,307 in June 2023.