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HistoryLink is an online encyclopedia of Washington state history. The site has more than 8,100 entries and attracts 23,000 weekly visitors. [ 2 ] It has 500 biographies and more than 14,000 images.
The prototype of HistoryLink.org debuted on May 1, 1998, and attracted additional funding for a formal launch in 1999. In 2003 HistoryLink.org expanded its content to cover Washington state history. Meanwhile, History Ink continues, focusing on the production of history books. [1] Crowley and HistoryLink.org have won many awards, including
Location of Walla Walla County in Washington. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Walla Walla County, Washington, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
HistoryLink.org Essay 3176. Lange referenced Lange, "Smallpox Epidemic of 1862 among Northwest Coast and Puget Sound Indians" , HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. Accessed 8 December 2000. Morgan, Murray (1960). Skid Road: Seattle -- Her first hundred years. revised. New York: Ballantine Books (published 1951).
The Centralia Tragedy, also known as the Centralia Conspiracy [2] and the Armistice Day Riot, [3] [4] was a violent and bloody incident that occurred in Centralia, Washington, on November 11, 1919, during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
Yesler arrived in Seattle from Ohio in 1852 [2] and built a steam-powered sawmill, which provided numerous jobs for those early settlers and Duwamish tribe members. The mill was located right on the Elliott Bay waterfront, at the foot of what is now known as Yesler Way [1] and was then known as Mill Road or the "Skid Road," so named for the practice of "skidding" greased logs down the steep ...
The Treaty of Medicine Creek was an 1854 treaty between the United States, and nine tribes and bands of Indians, occupying the lands lying around the head of Puget Sound, Washington, and the adjacent inlets.
David Swinson "Doc" Maynard (March 22, 1808 – March 13, 1873) was an American doctor and businessman.He was one of Seattle's primary founders. Maynard was Seattle's first doctor, merchant prince, second lawyer, Sub-Indian Agent, Justice of the Peace, and architect of the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855.