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The area around the present-day city was first settled in 1869-1870 by David E. Kimble, Jasper Gates, and Joseph F. Dwelley.
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Harrison Clothier and partner Edward G. English founded the town by giving it a name.
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Two logjams that had rendered the Skagit River unnavigable were breached, and Mount Vernon started to boom
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The voters of the newly created Skagit County selected Mount Vernon to replace LaConner as the county seat.
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Mortimer Cook's general store and sternwheeler wharf is founded.
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Elected a five-man "board of trustees," and directed them to resubmit a petition to Judge Hanford.
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The voters of Washington Territory approved a state constitution.
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Washington became the nation's 42nd state.
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Philip A. Woolley, a railroad construction agent and developer, moved his family to the Skagit River.
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The railroad launched went from Bellingham Bay to Sedro.
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Norman R. Kelley, the son of a New York City investment banker, platted what we call new Sedro, a half mile northwest of Cook's village.
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Aa petition bearing 106 signature was submitted to the court and the commissioners, but the law was not done toying with the hapless Mount Vernon incorporators.
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Sedro Press, a newspaper started printing publications.
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The voters would be asked to either approve incorporation and elect the city's first government, or disapprove, in which case things would just go on pretty much as before.
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The citizens of Mount Vernon went to the polls and approved the city's incorporation by a wide margin, 87 for and 25 against. Charles Kimball was elected mayor
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The name of Mount Vernon was promptly entered in Book 1, Page 3 of the State of Washington Register of Incorporated Cities and Towns as a fourth class city, and the lengthy ordeal was finally over.
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The paper pushed hard for the consolidation, but the city attorney, A. W. Salisbury, quashed the effort, ruling that the legal mechanism was illegal.
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Woolley residents voted in favor of incorporation, and William Murdoch became the first mayor.
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The towns Sedro and Woolley, located adjacent to one another in Skagit County, merge.
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Alfred Hamilton, alias Alfred Hawkins, age 26, arrived at Anacortes in his fishing sloop with a load of salmon. He sold the fish to a cannery for more than $1,000 and then proceed into the city to carouse and gamble.
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Alfred Hamilton shoots and kills prominent attorney David. M. Woodbury without provocation.
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Woodbury lingers in great pain for three days before dying. A Skagit County jury will find Hamilton guilty of first-degree murder with the mandatory sentence of death.
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Sheriff Wells brought Hamilton to Anacortes City Hall for a preliminary hearing before Police Justice John J. See. Hamilton engaged two Seattle attorneys, Robert H. Lindsay and John B. Wright, as defense counsel.
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Hamilton will be hanged in the courtyard outside the Whatcom County Courthouse. This will be the last legal execution to occur in Washington outside the confines of the state penitentiary at Walla Walla.
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Judge Neterer set Hamilton's execution for the following Friday after sentencing
