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[[Image:Welcome to Aberdeen cropped.jpg|thumb|Tributo al [[Kurt Cobain]] en Aberdeen.
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'''Aberdeen''' ("Abe din'", aŭ pli precize, laŭ [[Internacia Fonetika Alfabeto|IFA]], {{IPA|[ˈæ bɚ diːn]}}) estas
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Aberdeen is the homeport of the tall ship ''[[Lady Washington]]'', a reproduction of a smaller vessel used by the explorer Captain [[Robert Gray (sea-captain)|Robert Gray]], which is featured in the two Pirates of the Caribbean movies (The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Dead Man's Chest (2006).
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The early settlers who came to the eastern edge of Grays Harbor in the 1880s called the place Wishkah, after the nearby river. But some objected, and the city was eventually renamed for a local salmon cannery, itself a [[namesake]] of the original [[Aberdeen]], [[Scotland]], which is situated at the mouth of two rivers. The neighboring settlement of [[Wishkah, Washington|Wishkah]] had its plat filed in 1883.
Although it has become the largest and best known of the three cities on [[Grays Harbor]], Aberdeen lagged behind neighbors [[Hoquiam, Washington|Hoquiam]] and [[Cosmopolis, Washington|Cosmopolis]] in the early years. When A.J. West built the town's first sawmill in 1884, the other two municipalities had already been in business for several years. For years Aberdeen and neighboring towns vied to be the
So [[Hoquiam]] and [[Aberdeen]] citizens banded together to build a spur, and in 1895 this homegrown line connected the Northern Pacific tracks to Aberdeen, and four years later it reached Hoquiam.
By [[1900]], Aberdeen was one of the roughest towns on the [[West Coast]], with many saloons, whorehouses, and gambling establishments.
Aberdeen was officially incorporated on [[May 12]], [[1890]]. On [[October 16]], [[1903]], a massive fire swept through the city's commercial district, destroying 140 buildings and killing four people. The number of people living there grew tremendously in forty years, going from 1,638 in 1890 to 26,073 in 1930. Many immigrants moved in from all over the world, particularly people from Scandanavia, and many other European countries.
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