The Places of the Past online database contains annotated photographs documenting the history of the buildings and places of Snohomish County. The Project is an on-going effort drawing on photograph collections and expertise from county heritage organizations and the Everett Public Library in an Internet accessible image database format.  

The photographs will primarily be of individual buildings but may in the future include street views, cultural landscapes, sites of historic events, roadways even some historic ships. The images will include but not be limited to places currently on National, State and local registers and districts of historic places.

This project is sponsored by the League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations and the Everett Public Library. Other contributing organizations include the Everett Historical Commission, Snohomish County Historical Commission, Snohomish County Planning & Development Department and individual League member organizations.

  Hear Everett Public Library Historian David Dilgard talk about the Snohomish County Courthouse and Forgotten Creek