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State Route Eighteen — Once Called Slaughter
Sal: Between State Route Eighteen and Fifteenth Street Northwest. Sal: State Route Eighteen began as the Echo Lake Cutoff, a two-lane road chosen to avoid Tiger Mountain and connect Tacoma to Snoqualmie Pass. Its first section, from Highway Ninety-Nine to Auburn, opened on December 19, 1958. After six fatalities in more than 170 accidents in ten years, it had a reputation as a "dangerous roadway," and in 1992 work began to widen it into a four-lane freeway. Sal: The town beside it started out with another name. Levi Ballard filed a plat in February 1886 and named the town Slaughter, for an…
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