Startup — Seventeen Saloons

Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett · Oct 29, 2026 · 4m

Sal: Between Sultan and Startup. Sal: At Sultan, the Sultan River joins the Skykomish at the foot of the town's First Street. Before American settlement, the Skykomish people maintained a permanent village and a fishery at the river junction. Both the river and the town honor Skykomish chief Tseul-tud, whom early pioneers called Sultan John. He was known as an excellent woodworker, fisherman and hunter, and as a medicine man whom people traveled long distances to see. A thirteen-foot, four-thousand-pound statue of him, made by hand from sawdust and polyester resin by Monroe resident Jerry…