Shoreline, Washington

Shoreline is a city located in King County, Washington, 15 miles (24 km) north of Downtown Seattle. As of the 2000 census, it had a total population of 53,025, making it the 14th largest city in the state of Washington.

History

White settlement in Shoreline began in 1890 with the platting of the neighborhood of Richmond Beach, on Puget Sound, in anticipation of the arrival of the Great Northern Railroad the next year. Over the next two decades, Shoreline was connected to Seattle via the Seattle-Everett Interurban streetcar line (1906) and a newly paved North Trunk Road (now Aurora Avenue N., Washington State Route 99) (1913), helping to increase its population.

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1890 - Puget Sound - Great Northern Railroad - Seattle - Everett - Interurban streetcar - 1906 - Washington State Route 99 - 1913

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The name "Shoreline" first came to be applied to this stretch of unincorporated King County in 1944, when it was given to the school district. Fifty-one years later, on August 31, 1995, Shoreline was officially incorporated as a code city and adopted the council-manager form of government. (See City government in the state of Washington.)

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1944 - August 31 - 1995 - City government in the state of Washington

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