In 1892, Henry Hewitt along with Charles Colby and Colgate Hoyt founded the Everett Land Company for the purpose of building the city of Everett, named after the son of Charles Colby, on some of the land surrendered by its original inhabitants under the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott.
Everett was officially incorporated on May 4, 1893 the year the Great Northern Railroad came to the town. Everett hoped that James Hill would make the town the terminus of his railroad. However Hill continued the railroad along the shore of Puget Sound to Seattle. Everett was the place where several survivors of the Bellingham riots settled, until they were beaten and forcefully evicted by a mob on November 5, 1907. Everett also was the site of the Everett Massacre of 1916 which was an armed confrontation between a mob led by local Sheriff Donald McRae and IWW members. The IWW members were on the steamer Verona and sought to land, but Sheriff McRae denied them his permission. Shooting broke out and at least five IWW's were killed and two in the Sheriff's mob were killed, though they might have been accidentally shot by others in their allegedly drunken group.
Everett streets are named after each of the three founders. Adjacent streets Colby Avenue and Hoyt Avenue run north and south and are intersected by Hewitt Avenue running east and west just south of the BNSF Railway tracks cutting across Everett.
Everett is a city located in Snohomish County, Washington. As of the 2000 census the city had a total population of 91,488, making it the 6th largest in the state. As of April 1, 2006 the city was home to 101,100. It is the county seat of Snohomish County and the western terminus of the western segment of U.S. Highway 2. It is also home to Boeing's assembly plant for the 747, 787, and 777 in the largest building in the world by volume at 13.3 million cubic meters. On January 8, 1997 the United States Navy homeport welcomed the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
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