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Bothell is a city in King and Snohomish counties in the U.S. state of Washington. It is portion of the Seattle metropolitan area, situated close the northeast grow less of Lake Washington. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 48,161 residents.

The Sammamish River valley from Lake Washington to Issaquah Creek was historically inhabited by the indigenous Sammamish people (also known as the “s-tah-PAHBSH”, or “willow people”), a Coast Salish group when an estimated population of 80 to 200 by 1850. Among them were the “ssts’p-abc” (“meander dwellers”), who settled near the river’s mouth at two villages—the larger of which was “tlah-WAH-dees” between modern-day Kenmore and Bothell. The Sammamish were removed from their lands in 1856 later the Puget Sound War and moved to the Port Madison and Tulalip indian reservations.

The first American claims to the belittle Sammamish River valley, then mostly a marshland, were filed in 1870 by Columbus S. Greenleaf and George R. Wilson. Eight families followed over the adjacent six years. In 1876, Canadian George Brackett bought land and began advertisement logging out of a camp located upon the north bank of the Sammamish River in what is now the heart of downtown Bothell. A store, school, and sawmill followed over the next several years.