Wellington, Washington

Wellington (later known as Tye) was a small unincorporatedrailroad community in the northwest United States, on the Great Northern Railway in northeastern King County, Washington.

Founded in 1893, it was located in the Cascade Range at the west portal of the original Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pass. It was the site of the 1910 Wellington avalanche, the deadliest in U.S. history, in which 96 people died.