The “I’e’nis/Ennis Creek” mural on the side of the Feiro Marine Life Center at City Pier in Port Angeles depicts the S'Klallam village near the mouth of Ennis Creek in the 1840s and the other half is the Cooperate Colony in 1887.

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Aberdeen was founded in 1884 by Samuel Benn, who saw the harbor’s potential and helped lay out the town. 🌲🌧️ From rough waterfront beginnings came a city built on timber, fishing, shipping, and grit. #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #WashingtonHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

Aberdeen was incorporated on May 12, 1890. 🌲🌧️ From muddy boomtown streets to a working harbor city, the place kept growing around timber, fishing, shipping, and grit. #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #WashingtonHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

Aberdeen’s name is tied to both salmon-canning history and its Scottish namesake—and the city grew where the Chehalis and Wishkah meet Grays Harbor. 🐟🌲🌧️ #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #WashingtonHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

Timber, fish, tide. 🌲🐟🌊 Aberdeen grew around all three—mills, canneries, and a working waterfront that shaped the city’s economy and identity. #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #WashingtonHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

Aberdeen’s 1903 fire destroyed much of the early downtown, but the city rebuilt and kept growing. 🔥🌲 A dramatic chapter in Grays Harbor history. #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #WashingtonHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

Aberdeen finally got its rail connection in 1895. 🚂🌲 A spur linked the city to the Northern Pacific system, helping connect the harbor’s timber economy to the wider region. #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #RailroadHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

Laura Law was found murdered in her Aberdeen home on January 5, 1940. The case remains unsolved, and the murder became tangled in the labor and political tensions of the era. 🌧️🕯️ #LauraLaw #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #ColdCase #BadWeatherBaddies

Aberdeen raised a grunge icon. 🎸🌧️ Kurt Cobain grew up here, and the city honors him at Kurt Cobain Memorial Park near the Young Street Bridge. #KurtCobain #AberdeenWA #PNWHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

Aberdeen’s old waterfront once mixed saloons, lodging houses, docks, and vice districts along streets like Heron. 🍷🌧️ A rougher chapter of Grays Harbor history—equal parts boomtown and cautionary tale. #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

Billy Gohl was convicted of murder in 1910 and became one of Grays Harbor’s darkest historical figures. Later stories greatly expanded his alleged body count, so documented history and harbor legend often blur together. ⚓🌧️ #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

The Grays Harbor Lighthouse entered service in 1898 and stands 107 feet tall—the tallest lighthouse in Washington. Coastal accretion later pushed the shoreline roughly 3,000 feet westward. 🌊🩷 #GraysHarbor #WestportWA #PNWHistory #WashingtonCoast #BadWeatherBaddies

Aberdeen was built on timber. 🌲🪵 Sawmills and logging drove the city’s early economy, but the Great Depression hit hard and the number of major mills fell sharply. #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory #BadWeatherBaddies

The coast keeps stories. 🌊🌧️ Washington’s outer coast has always demanded respect—storms, fog, rough bars, wrecks, and generations of maritime lore. #WashingtonCoast #PNWHistory #ShipwreckLore #GraysHarbor #BadWeatherBaddies

Grays Harbor nights: rain, old waterfronts, fog, mill-era buildings, and just enough local lore to make every reflection look suspicious. 🌧️👻🌲 #GraysHarbor #AberdeenWA #Hoquiam #PNW #PNWHistory #Paranormal #BadWeatherBaddies

Aberdeen, 1940: Laura Law was found murdered in her living room. The case unfolded amid intense labor and political tensions and remains unsolved. Source: HistoryLink Essay 9260. #AberdeenWA #GraysHarbor #PNWHistory

In 1978, we opened our first Uwajimaya Bellevue store in the Crossroads area to serve the Seattle Eastside’s rapidly growing community. These photos from 1981 capture scenes from around the store. A little look back at Uwajimaya history. 📸

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