Short answers, pulled from the story.
Snoqualmie is an Anglicization of the Lushootseed word sdukʷalbixʷ, which means "people of the moon." The name comes from the indigenous Snoqualmie people, whose ancestors occupied the Snoqualmie Valley for at least 13,000 years.
Many exterior shots for David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks television series and the film Fire Walk with Me were filmed in Snoqualmie and the neighboring towns of North Bend and Fall City. Lynch appeared at the North Bend Theatre to introduce Fire Walk with Me live during the first Twin Peaks Fan Festival in August 1992.
Snoqualmie Falls and the adjacent Salish Lodge draw 1.5 million annual visitors. The falls are located next to Puget Sound Energy's Snoqualmie Fall Park.
Snoqualmie incorporated as a city in 1903 after an official vote. The area had been platted in August 1889 under the name "Snoqualmie Falls" by investors from Seattle.
Snoqualmie had a population of 14,121 at the 2020 census, with a median age of 36.0 years. The city grew rapidly from 1,631 residents in 2000 and 10,670 in 2010, driven largely by the development of the master-planned Snoqualmie Ridge community.
The oral history of Snoqualmie names Edmund and Louisa Kinsey as the town's first residents. They established the first hotel, livery, general store, dance hall, post office, and meat market, and also helped build the first church in the town.