Washington Home Improvement Contractors

Washington information:

• The official website of the State of Washington is www.Washington.gov.
• The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president.
• Washington is home to four of the five longest floating bridges in the world: the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Homer M. Hadley Bridge over Lake Washington, and the Hood Canal Bridge connecting the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas.
• The state of Washington is one of only seven states that does not levy a personal income tax.
• The oldest operating gas station in the United States is in Zillah.
• In eastern Washington the Hanford Works atomic energy plant was opened in 1943 and played a major role in the construction of the nation's atomic bombs.
• Medina is the home of the United States wealthiest man, Microsoft's Bill Gates.
• The six largest reported ancestries in Washington are: German (18.7%), English (12%), Irish (11.4%), Norwegian (6.2%), Mexican (5.6%) and Filipino (3.7%).
• The forests of the Olympic Peninsula are among the rainiest places in the world and the only rainforests (such as the Hoh Rain Forest) in the continental United States
• The town of Artic was to be named 'Arta' after the wife of the town founder. The application was misread and resulted in the unusual spelling of the word Artic.