Bellingham
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- Names
Bellingham
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Bellingham Bay, which was named for Sir William Bellingham by Captain George Vancouver in 1792; settled when Henry Roeder built a sawmill at Whatcom Falls in 1852; was staging area for ill-fated Fraser River gold rush in 1857.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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