Main Street is the heart of Edmonds' business district, shown here in a photo from 1949. A caption written at the time says that the variety of storefronts "demonstrate slow, steady growth from a little logging town to present growing residential community."

Edmonds' Main Street was originally a "skid road" along which teams of oxen dragged huge logs from the forest to mills at the waterfront.

The Bishop Hotel got its name from James H. Bishop, who bought the Edmonds town site from George Brackett in 1890.