Everett
The city of Everett, founded in 1893, grew out of an industrial boomtown that sprang up around the lumber industry, ore refining and the railroad.
Located where the Snohomish River empties into Puget Sound, the city's waterfront now includes Naval Station Everett. The base is home to 6,000 sailors and civil employees, three destroyers, three frigates and one aircraft carrier.
Everett's neighborhoods range from stately historic homes overlooking the water to diverse multifamily apartment complexes to old millworkers' cottages on leafy streets.
Since the 1960s, The Boeing Co. has been a driving economic engine in the city. Employees assemble the company's widebody jets -- the 747, 767 and 777 -- at its Everett complex.