Gold Bar state fish hatchery

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Gold Bar was a logging, railroading, and mining town by the time the state added a fish hatchery nearby, one of three in Snohomish County. That happened in the stretch after incorporation in 1910, when the railroad kept extensive shops and a railyard in town and the logging industry stayed strong through the 1920s. A hatchery fit right in with all that work along the Skykomish River. The one near Gold Bar sits beside the Wallace River, and it goes by the Wallace River Hatchery. Decades later, a 135 acre property next to it was singled out for protection, because the water there offered a mile of spawning habitat for Chinook and coho salmon. Tulalip Tribes took title in October 2015. [1]