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BELLINGHAM , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Whatcom See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

Washington, U.S.A., on the E. See also:

side of Bellingham See also:

BAY

Bay, 96 m. N. of See also:

SEATTLE

Seattle. Pop. (1900) 11,062; (1905, See also:

state est.) 26,000; (1910, U.S. See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 24,298. See also:

AREA

Area about 23 sq. m. It is served by the See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

NORTHERN

Northern, the Northern Pacific, the See also:

CANADIAN

Canadian Pacific, and the Bellingham Bay & See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

COLUMBIA

Columbia railways—being a See also:

TERMINUS

terminus of the last named, which operates only 62 m. of See also:

LINE

line and connects with the Mt. See also:

Baker goldfields and the Nooksack valley See also:

FARM

farm and See also:

ORCHARD (O. Eng. ort-geard, later orceard; a combination apparently of Lat. hortus, garden, and " yard " or " Barth ")

orchard region. A suburban electric line was projected in 1907. About 22 M. See also:

south-See also:

east of the city is the See also:

main See also:

BODY

body of See also:

Lake Whatcom, 13 M. See also:

long, 14 m. wide, and 318 ft. higher than the city and the source of its See also:

WATER

water-See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply, a gravity See also:

SYSTEM

system which cost $I,000,000, being owned by the city. Belling-See also:

HAM

ham has two See also:

Carnegie See also:

LIBRARIES

libraries. Among the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal buildings are the county See also:

court-See also:

house, the city See also:

hall, the See also:

Young Men's See also:

Christian Association See also:

BUILDING

building, and See also:

Beck's See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, with a seating capacity of 2200. The largest of the state's normal colleges is situated here; in 1907 it had a See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of 25 and 350 students; there are two high See also:

SCHOOLS

schools, two business colleges, and one See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial school also in the city.

The excellent See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, and the fact that Bellingham is nearer to the great markets of See also:

ALASKA

Alaska than any other city in the states, make the See also:

PORT

port an important See also:

SHIPPING

shipping centre. In the value of manufactured product the city was See also:

FOURTH

fourth in the state in 1905 (being passed only by See also:

TACOMA

Tacoma, Seattle and See also:

SPOKANE

Spokane), with a value of $3,293,988; according to a census taken by the See also:

LOCAL

local chamber of See also:

commerce the value of the product in 1906 was $7,751,464. The principal industrial establishments are See also:

SHINGLE

shingle (especially See also:

CEDAR (Lat. cedrus, Gr. iapos)

cedar) and saw-See also:

mills, See also:

salmon canneries and factories for the manufacture of See also:

TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin cans, and machinery used in the See also:

canning of salmon. See also:

MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

Motive and electric See also:

LIGHTING

lighting See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power is brought 52 M. from the falls of the See also:

north See also:

FORK (Lat. furca)

fork of the Nooksack See also:

RIVER

river, where there is a power plant which furnishes 3500 horsepower. There are deposits of See also:

clay and See also:

LIMESTONE

limestone in the surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement is manufactured in the vicinity of the city. The See also:

BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue-See also:

grey Chuckanut See also:

SANDSTONE

sandstone is quarried on the See also:

SHORE

shore of Chuckanut Bay, south of Bellingham; and a coarse, dark-See also:

brown sandstone is quarried on Sucia See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, See also:

west of the city. There are quarries also on Waldron Island. Bellingham was formed in 1903 by the consolidation of the cities of New Whatcom (pop. in 'coo, 6834) and See also:

FAIRHAVEN

Fairhaven (pop. in 1900, 4228), and was chartered as a city of the first class in 1904; it is named from Bellingham Bay, which See also:

Vancouver is supposed to have named, in 1792, in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

SIR

Sir See also:

Henry Bellingham.

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