State Route Two-Oh-Three — Tye City and Wales

Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett · Oct 29, 2026 · 1m

Sal: Between State Route Five-Twenty-Two and State Route Two-Oh-Three. Sal: State Route Five-Twenty-Two ends here, the expressway that links Monroe with Bothell and Seattle. The town first centered a mile away at Park Place, until the Great Northern's final survey in 1891 put its tracks across Jack Stretch's forty-acre homestead. Sal: The railroad built a small depot named Wales, while Stretch platted a new townsite called Tye City, for the railway's locating engineer, George Tye. Sal: In late 1892 and early 1893, Park Place merchants moved their buildings to the tracks with teams of oxen…