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Face east toward the BNSF Railway tracks. The Jamison mill occupied the area between here and the tracks.

Neil E. Jamison, born and raised in Minnesota, arrived in Everett by 1908 and organized the Jamison Mill Company in 1913. He built his flagship Everett mill at 10th and Norton Ave (now Marine View Drive). Jamison also operated a mill on the 14th Street Dock until 1919. Jamison was well known in the town and lumber business. His mill, which employed 125 men, was a large producer of western red cedar shingles. A fire struck the plant in 1928 and the mill suffered major damage but was eventually reopened.

Jamison died in 1958. By 1966 the mill was known as the Jamison Division of Saginaw Shingle Company (an Aberdeen company), although Everett residents still knew and referred to the mill as Jamison’s. The mill stood out among the other waterfront mills due to the distinct yellow paint scheme in later years.

The Jamison mill closed for a time but in August 1967, it was announced the mill would reopen. Then, on August 31, 1967, the mill was mostly destroyed in a spectacular night-time fire spewing flaming cinders and debris over the adjacent north Everett neighborhoods to the east.

Cross 10th Street and walk northeast to the waterfront.