| Giant Cedar Stump | |
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.jpeg) "Relic of a Vanquished Forest" | |
| Coordinates | 48°10′07.2″N 122°11′21.1″W / 48.168667°N 122.189194°W / 48.168667; -122.189194 |
  Location of Giant Cedar Stump in Washington (state) | |
The Giant Cedar Stump is an ancient tree turned roadside attraction in Snohomish County, Washington.
Natural history
The massive stump is the remain of an old-growth Thuja plicata giant arborvitae, known as the western redcedar.
Roadside attraction
The stump was photographed by Darius Kinsey in 1920 as part of his series on the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest.
In 1939 Crown Prince Olav and Princess Märtha of Norway drove through the stump on their way to nearby Stanwood for the dedication of a memorial to Washington's first Norwegian settlers.
References
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"A Seattle Camera Club Goes on a Picture Hunt". The Seattle Sunday Times Rotogravure. June 18, 1939.
Rendezvous en route for the motor caravan by which members of the Seattle Photographic Society traveled on their Rosario Beach outing was the ancient, picturesque red cedar stump that has been preserved beside the highway near Arlington. This is the group as it paused to take pictures, to have its picture taken.
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Dorpat, Paul (October 27, 2016). "This tunneled tree stump in Snohomish County was an early drive-through attraction". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
Variously named the Giant Cedar Stump, the Arlington Stump or just The Stump, this Snohomish County roadside attraction began, of course, as a tree, which was killed by fire in 1893; reduced to stump size and tunneled in 1916; given a concrete base in 1922; and moved alongside the new Highway 99 in 1939, where it is shown here (in 1940). The stump moved in 1971 to its current home, at the Smokey Point Rest Area at milepost 207 off Interstate 5.
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Whitely, Peyton (August 6, 2003). "Rest areas: I-5 asylums". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
The northbound Smokey Point rest area has amenities similar to other roadside stops: restrooms, vending machines, trash cans, grassy areas. But it is also the site of "The Stump."
- Kinsey, Darius. "Darius Kinsey and his automobile at an arch in a red cedar stump, Washington, 1920" (1920). Kinsey Brothers Photographs of the Lumber Industry and the Pacific Northwest, ca. 1890-1945. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
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