Resolution 1171of the Edmonds City Council
Declaring that the Intersection of 212th Street Southwest and 76th Avenue West
6e, Xgain Officialiy KP&a n. as u9161mes Corner"
Wo. '1171
Whereas, Edmonds is a city of neighborhoods.that are valued by, all;'arid:,`
Whereas, the neighborhood around 'the, intersection of 2,12-.'Street Southwest and 76u'
Street West today 'includes -...long-standing. residential ' homes; . apartments,
condos, small businesses and Edmonds-Woodway High :School; and
wfief`eas, the neighborhood -and high school .were the location %of one of the earliest
pioneer homesteads, ranch ;dai" ing swyEdmondsry. b
r pioneers Samuel and Ann" Nolmes;- and
Whereas, for decades City maps identified this. intersection and .-neighborhood as
"Holmes Corner"; and
Whereas, in January 2007: the "City placed signs at the intersecxion,`reading; "Holmes
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Corner" in recognition of this important history and neighborhood:,
.`71/o'w, Therefore, Be It 4Z§so`ved, that the Edmonds City Council "declares that the
Intersection of 212t' Street Southwest -and . 76th Avenue West, and'r
surrounding, neighborhood, be again officially known as "Holmes Corner".:
appr?wd; and adopted this 22 dCay ofApiiC20�8..
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Deanna Dawson, Councilmember ., ' _D.
Ron W mbolt, Coun ' will r
tchard Olson, Couiicilmember;
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est: City Clerk
David J. Oivis,
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