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It is such a common assumption that Stevens Pass is named for Washington's first territorial governor, Isaac Stevens, that some history books even get it wrong. But it is named for John F. Stevens, who is best known as the Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal. But before that he was a surveryor for the Great Northern Railway, and it was in that capacity that he discovered the pass through the Cascades that bears his name today.

John Frank Stevens

Great Northern Railway Surveryor and Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal.
To learn more about John F. Stevens and Stevens Pass, read Stevens Pass by JoAnn Roe and published by The Mountaineers 1995. To learn more about John F. Stevens and the Panama Canal, visit the Smithsonian.

--photo courtesy Smithsonian Institution Libraries from Makers of the Panama Canal compiled and edited by F.E. Jackson, 1911