Duvall

Sal is a voice that rides along as you drive Washington's roads: the road ahead, the pass, the stories of the places you pass.

The river was the trouble and the reason both. Cherry Valley sat a half mile downstream along the Snoqualmie, handy for the boats and the logging, and it flooded almost every year. Then in 1909 two railroads started building a line along the water, and the town happened to be in the way. After a good deal of negotiating, the railroad agreed to move it, and for the next year the homes and businesses went south and up the hill, onto land Francis and James Duvall had homesteaded in the 1870s. The cemetery had been so wet that graves were bailed out before burials. The new town was briefly called Cosgrove, then Duvall. It incorporated in 1913. Hix Market and the Grange Hall made the trip uphill, and both remain standing. [1]