The 1907 map of Bellingham.  Circles expanding over the region centered Bellingham as the locus of power. That boosters in neighboring towns centered their places similarly seems to have had little effect on Bellingham's public self image.  As historian Katherine Morrissey  points out, larger visions of region and future were adaptable to such local variation.  City of Bellingham 1907, 11, Pamphlet Collection, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies.                                                                             Next      Back     Primary Source Index    Go to Text