Bellingham’s street names follow many conventions: letters, numbers, state names, American founding father names, Coast Salish place names, and more. Others, however, reference historical figures and features that helped make Bellingham what it is today. As Whatcom Museum archivist Jeff Jewell describes, Fairhaven and New Whatcom both had numbered streets until their 1903–1904 consolidation. “One […]
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