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==History== Sumner was founded in 1853 as Stuck Junction and platted in 1883 by George H. Ryan, in anticipation of a stop on the [[Northern Pacific Railway]]. The town was named "Franklin" until 1891, when the [[United States Post Office Department|Post Office Department]] requested that the name be changed to avoid confusion with similarly named towns. The name of abolitionist Senator [[Charles Sumner]] was chosen for the town after a lottery.<ref>{{cite report |date=March 2016 |title=Sumner Station Access Improvement Project: Cultural Resources Technical Report |page=15 |url=https://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/Sumner_Cultural%20Resources%20Report.pdf |publisher=[[Sound Transit]] |access-date=February 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228162715/https://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/Sumner_Cultural%20Resources%20Report.pdf |archive-date=February 28, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=majors>{{Cite book| last = Majors | first = Harry M. | title = Exploring Washington | publisher = Van Winkle Publishing Co | year = 1975 | page = 77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ| isbn = 978-0-918664-00-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Meany|first=Edmond S.|title=Origin of Washington geographic names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027074981;view=1up;seq=312|year=1923|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|page=296}}</ref>
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