Anacortes is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The name “Anacortes” is an familiarization of the broadcast of Anne Curtis Bowman, who was the wife of to the lead Fidalgo Island settler Amos Bowman. Anacortes’ population was 15,778 at the get older of the 2010 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Anacortes is known for the Washington State Ferries haven and terminal serving Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, and San Juan Island, as without difficulty as Victoria, British Columbia (via Sidney, British Columbia) on Vancouver Island. There is afterward a Skagit County-operated ferry that serves Guemes Island, a residential island located across Guemes Channel, north of Anacortes.

Anacortes was officially incorporated on May 19, 1891.

In 1877, railroad surveyor and town founder Amos Bowman moved his associates to the northern tip of Fidalgo Island. Bowman began promoting the Place as an obvious terminus for the Northern Pacific Railway as it was built through the north Cascades to the Pacific. Bowman acknowledged the town’s first newspaper, The Northwest Enterprise, to promote his vision of the New York of the West.

Seattle and Northern Company began building a rail lineage from the town in 1888. Real estate and move on boomed from 1888 to 1890 consequently of the railroad rumors, and the Oregon Improvement Company posted $15 million in bonds to develop the town.