HistoryLink Tours

Look east toward the bluff and BNSF Railway tracks. In the tideland area, notice the wooden pilings and concrete foundations in the water (or sand at low tide). These are the remnants of the C-B mill, one of the few remains from the Everett “City of Smokestacks” days. The large concrete foundations are likely foundations for heavy equipment.

Olof Carlson was born and raised in Sweden and arrived in Washington in the 1880s. George Bergstrom was from from Minnesota and arrived in Everett by 1910. They opened the C-B Lumber and Shingle Company on the waterfront about 1914, employing about 45 workers. In 1955, it was announced that the mill was to be sold. Later mill operations here included Pacific Timber, Summit Timber Company, and the Pilchuck Shingle Mill.

By the mid 1960s, all mill operations here ceased. The Scott Paper Company used a part of the plant in the 1960s for paper storage. On September 2, 1967, another spectacular night-time blaze destroyed much of the old plant. As typical, blazing cinders and debris were sent skyward, carried eastward by the wind, once again threatening north Everett homes. The Jamison mill fire had occurred just days before.

Backtrack south past the Jamison and Hulbert sites to the diagonal Millwright Loop N road. Walk along it southeast to 13th Street, then at 13th turn east (left) for about 400 feet to the historical interpretive marker on the north side of the street.