Goshen, Washington

Goshen was a pioneer town in western Whatcom County (approximately 5 miles northeast of Bellingham, and 10 miles south of the US border with Canada). It was a stop on the rail line of the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad. It no longer exists, yet the Everson-Goshen road is still present.^[1] At one point Goshen hoped to compete with Whatcom (now Bellingham) and Seattle for the western depot of the railroad line which was being laid north to Washington State, which would guarantee economic investment and much traffic. Tacoma won the contest. Goshen was a logging and farming community.

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↑ http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.8605&lon=-122.3671&zoom=13&layers=M

Municipalities and communities of Whatcom County, Washington, United States

County seat: Bellingham

Cities	Bellingham Blaine Everson Ferndale Lynden Nooksack Sumas

CDPs	Acme Birch Bay Custer Deming Geneva Glacier Kendall Maple Falls Marietta-Alderwood Peaceful Valley Point Roberts Sudden Valley

Indian reservations	Lummi Nooksack

Unincorporated communities	Dewey Diablo Laurel Lummi Island Newhalem Wahl

Ghost town	Goshen

Coordinates: 48°51′16″N 122°20′28″W / 48.85444°N 122.34111°W / 48.85444; -122.34111

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