Referred to as the Lake Stevens Monster, the giant rock is considered the largest erratic in Washington and maybe in the United States. It measures 34 feet tall and 78 feet in length with a circumference of 210 feet.

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Paleolithic (Wikipedia) The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (/ˌpeɪ-, ˌpælioʊˈlɪθɪk/ PAY-, PAL-ee-oh-LITH-ik), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός palaios, “old” and λίθος lithos, “stone”), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology. It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools by hominins, c. 3.3 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene, c. 11,650 cal BP.

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…