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"Seattle Women's History Timeline". Women in City Government. Online Exhibits. City of Seattle. Seattle Municipal Archives. "Civil Rights Timeline". Seattle Open Housing Campaign. Online Exhibits. City of Seattle. "Seattle", American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection, USA – via University of Wisconsin, ca.1914–1949
Seattle is a major port city that has a history of boom and bust. Seattle has on several occasions been sent into severe decline, but has typically used those periods to successfully rebuild infrastructure. There have been at least five such cycles: The lumber-industry boom, followed by the construction of an Olmsted-designed park system.
Seattle's bid for the world stage by hosting the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 did not play out as planned. Instead, the city became the site of the first great street confrontation between the anti-globalization movement and the World Trade Organization on November 30, 1999. While many of those in the streets, and ...
What is now Seattle has been inhabited since at least the end of the last glacial period (c. 8000 BCE —10,000 years ago). Archaeological excavations at what is now called West Point in Discovery Park, Magnolia confirm settlement within the current city for at least 4,000 years and probably much longer. [1]
History of Seattle, Washington 1900–1940: Seattle experienced rapid growth and transformation in the early 20th century, establishing itself as a leader in the Pacific Northwest. The Klondike Gold Rush led to massive immigration, diversifying the city's ethnic mix with arrivals of Japanese, Filipinos, Europeans, and European-Americans.
The Seattle Times. Seattle History : 150 Years: Seattle By and By. p. 1. Archived from the original on 7 May 2006 and Ibid (27 May 2001). "The settlers saw trees, endless trees. The natives saw the spaces between the trees". The Seattle Times. Seattle History : 150 Years: Seattle By and By. p. 2.
(The Center Square) – The Seattle City Council’s first action of the new year will be finding a replacement for the District 2 position. Earlier this month, Tammy Morales announced that she ...
The following is a timeline of the history of Washington state in the United States. ... Seattle becomes the first city in the state to exceed 500,000 people. 1961 ...