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Seattle History: 150 Years: Seattle By and By. The Seattle Times. p. 1. Archived from the original on May 7, 2006 and Anderson, Ross; Green, Sara Jean (May 27, 2001). "The settlers saw trees, endless trees. The natives saw the spaces between the trees". Seattle History: 150 Years: Seattle By and By. The Seattle Times. p. 2.
What is now Seattle has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 B.C.—10,000 years ago), for at least 4,000 years. In the mid-1850s the Coast Salish people of what is now called the Duwamish Tribe and Suquamish , as well as other associated groups and tribes, were living in some 13 villages within the present-day city ...
1853 – Seattle becomes seat of King County, Washington Territory. [2] 1854 – School opens. [3] 1855 – Population: 300. [2] 1856 – Hostile Native American tribesmen attack Seattle in a single-day battle. 1858 – The arrival of Manuel Lopes, the city's first Black resident. 1861 – Washington Territorial University established. [4]
Before regrading, the much-admired Denny School [10] and the upmarket Washington Hotel stood atop the hill, [11] along with numerous residential buildings. [12] The two-storey high Denny School was found on Battery Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and was considered "handsome in the extreme."
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.
In 2005, it was revealed that a teacher at Broadview-Thomson Elementary had been serially molesting children at the school for a period spanning several years. The teacher, Laurence E. "Shayne" Hill, had been molesting children for at least four of the twelve years he worked at the school, according to the Seattle Weekly. [20]
Years in Seattle (34 C) A. African-American history in Seattle (1 C, 26 P) D. ... History of Seattle before 1900; History of Seattle before white settlement;
The gold rush (see History of Seattle before 1900) led to massive immigration, with major arrivals of Japanese, Filipinos, immigrant Europeans, and European-Americans from back east. The arrival of Greeks and Sephardic Jews broadened the city's ethnic mix. Many of Seattle's neighborhoods got their start around this time.