HistoryLink Tours

Looking east toward the BNSF railroad tracks, you are looking at the former site of the William Hulbert Mill Company at the foot of 12th Street. The plant originally began operations as the Fred K. Baker Lumber Mill in 1914. Two years later, William Marion Hulbert purchased controlling interest in the mill from Baker. Hulbert died in 1919 and his wife Meda became president of the company until 1948. Their son William Glen Hulbert then became president of the company. The mill name changed throughout the years as the Hulbert Lumber Company and the William Hulbert Mill Company.

The plant produced shingles and cedar lumber. A fire destroyed the planer mill and eight dry kilns in 1956, putting 230 men out of work. The shingle operations restarted in 1957, but the mill closed just a few years later. The vacant mill buildings were burned by the Everett Fire Department in 1962.

Walk north on Craftsman Way to 10th Street.