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According to the Mukilteo Historical Society, the town became the first settled by Europeans in 1858 and was the county seat of Snohomish County from 1861 when Snohomish County was created from Island County to 1867, when the city of Snohomish became the county seat.

Initially the settlement was called Point Elliott, the name given the location by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841.