The Fidalgo City and Anacortes Railway constructed and operated a long electric railway extending from

Anacortes, Washington Anacortes ( ) is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The name "Anacortes" is an adaptation of the name of Anne Curtis Bowman, who was the wife of early Fidalgo Island settler Amos Bowman.Dewey, Washington) and Dewey Beach (all on

Fidalgo Island Fidalgo Island is an island in Skagit County, Washington, located about north of Seattle. To the east, it is separated from the mainland by the Swinomish Channel, and from Whidbey Island to the south by Deception Pass. The island is named af ...

) in the state of

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, USA. The company was incorporated June 30, 1890 and operation began March 29, 1891. This is said to have been the first electric railway in

. The company's prospectus indicates an intent to be capitalized at US$250,000. The organizers were Julius S. Potter, C.B. Holman, H.C. Colver, Joshua Pierce. W.A. Potter (? - December 1893) was a trustee. Offices were in Anacortes.{{citation, title=The Manual of Statistics, Volume 15, publisher=Financial News Association, year=1893, page=449, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zNJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA449 Local lore says that the trolley only ever made one round trip to Fidalgo City, and much of that trip was made behind a horse due to difficulties with or insufficient capacity of the power generator. The line is said to have operated sporadically within Anacortes for the remainder of its lifespan, again, owing to an unreliable power supply system. Operations continued until the collapse of the land boom in the Panic of 1893, when the road was abandoned and the track was removed.

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