Skagit County · Population 17,637 · Card no. 1701
Anacortes sits at the north end of Fidalgo Island and was laid out in the 1870s in the confident expectation of becoming the western terminus of a transcontinental railroad. The railroad went to Tacoma, and the town became a fishing, canning and refinery port instead.
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