Index, WA 98256

A woman named Persis Gunn thought the mountain nearby looked like a finger pointing toward heaven.  So she christened the place, “Index.”

Home to the SqWuqWu’b3sh (People of the River) before Persis and other Europeans arrived around 1850 to mine the mountains and log the forests, the sleepy town of Index, WA is in the foothills of the Cascades, an hour from Seattle.

Read more about the story of the town named Index here.