1,995
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$81,667
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America/Los_Angeles
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Gold Bar, WA - History
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Welcome to the Gold Bar Home page. The Gold Bar Home page provides as much information as possible on Gold Bar. Knowing Gold Bar’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Gold Bar’s Home page, you will also find Gold Bar’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Gold Bar has a population of 1995. 51.2% of Gold Bar’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.8 are female. 53.2% of Gold Bar is married and 81.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $254,913, and the average rent is $942. Household median income in Gold Bar is $81,667, and the individual median income is $40,097. Gold Bar’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.6%), Hispanic(7.4%), Other(3.9%), Multiple(2.1%), Native(0.5%).
The area around modern-day Gold Bar was occupied by the Skykomish, a branch of the Snohomish people, prior to the arrival of American settlers. The Skykomish had a permanent village near Gold Bar that was named 'xaitɬd. Gold Bar started as a prospectors camp in 1869, named by a miner who found traces of gold on a river gravel bar.
After Gold Bar became a construction camp for the Great Northern Railway, anti-Chinese sentiment was inflamed by a shooting fray started by disreputable camp followers. To save the lives of the threatened Chinese, construction engineer Eduard Bauer slipped them out of camp in hastily constructed coffins.
Gold Bar was officially incorporated on September 16, 1910. The 1940 population was 307.In 2012, the city government considered disincorporation to avoid bankruptcy due to low sales tax revenue and high expenses attributed to filling public records requests and fighting lawsuits from an activist. The city council voted against disincorporation and placed a property tax levy on the ballot, which was rejected by voters in November 2012.
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