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Darrington, Washington
Darrington is a town in Snohomish County, Washington, Snohomish County, Washington (state), Washington, United States. It is located in a North Cascades mountain valley formed by the Sauk River (Washington), Sauk and Stillaguamish River, North Fork Stillaguamish rivers. Darrington is connected to nearby areas by Washington State Route 530, State Route 530, which runs along the two rivers towards the city of Arlington, Washington, Arlington, located to the west, and Rockport, Washington, Rockport. It had a population of 1,347 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Non-indigenous settlement in the area began in 1891 at the site of a Skagit campsite between the two rivers, near the traditional home of the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe of Washington, Sauk-Suiattle tribe. Prospectors had arrived in the area during the 1880s while looking for gold and other minerals, but were quickly displaced by the logging industry that would come to dominate Darrington for much of the 20th cen ...
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