How Anacortes Got its Name

Amos Bowman, railroad man and promoter extraordinaire, named the city of his dreams after the woman he loved, Annie Curtis. How his town came be be called Anacortes is the source of legend and lore. This vignette on the founding of Anacortes, Washington is an excerpt from John Sabella's 2006 documentary Anacorted: The Perfect Port: https://www.johnsabella.com/detail.la...

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