Sultan - Washington Ghost Town

SULTAN

NAME: Sultan
COUNTY: Snohomish
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 4
CLIMATE: Cool winter and summer.
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime.

COMMENTS: On S.R. 2, definitely a semi-ghost.
REMAINS: Some original buildings, but becoming very modernized as it is so near Seattle.

Located in the heavily timbered Cascades, Sultan was a combination mining and lumbering town. Prospectors found a few nuggets of gold in the Sultan River in 1870 and that started the town. There was no boom until the Great Northern Railroad built its tracks through the Cascades. The effect on the town was to expand an already rowdy mining camp into a sprawling mass of shacks. Sultan is now a quiet, respectable town with the buildings remaining from its earlier period on a back street. Submitted by Henry Chenoweth.

Located in the heavily timbered Cascades, Sultan was a combination mining and lumbering town. Prospectors found a few nuggets of gold in the Sultan River in 1870 and that started the town. There was no boom until the Great Northern Railroad built its tracks through the Cascades. The effect on the town was to expand an already rowdy mining camp into a sprawling mass of shacks. Sultan is now a quiet, respectable town with the buildings remaining from its earlier period on a back street. Submitted by Henry Chenoweth.

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