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Perrinville Project, What do We Know About Perrinville?
I live in the Talbot Park neighborhood of Edmonds and drive past Perrinville daily. I’ve often thought of Perrinville as a little ghost town because I never really saw any people coming or going. Of course there’s lots of activity now with the new construction going on. So I decided to find out more about where Perrinville came from. A women by the name of Jennie Gertude “Gertie Perrin one of the area’s oldest pioneers founded Perrinville. Mrs Perrin was the second of 10 children, and was born in Nind, Mo on August 11th 1893 three years after Edmonds incorporated. In 1910 when Mrs Perrin was 17 her family moved to Edmonds. Edmonds was a thriving shingle-mill town but not much esle was here. Mrs Perrin and her husband lived in downtown Edmonds until 1938 when her husband decided to move from the city to the country. And later that year the couple moved to what is known today as Perrinville. The intersection of Olympic View Dr and 76th Ave W. Some which is in Edmonds, and some in unincorporated Snohomish County. And of course now we know it as a small shopping center with a western theme and mix of shops. In 1939, Mrs Perrin paid 10 cents at the Everett courthouse to dub the area with its current name. Mrs Perrin was 98 when she passed away and is survived by a son, Carl “Skip” Perrin Jr. of Las Vegas. And that’s what I know about Perrinville, Currently the Edmonds City Council had the final say on July 15th of this year on the current construction project.
