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That same year, the Bellingham Coal Mines opened near present-day Northwest and Birchwood Avenues. The mine extended to hundreds of miles of tunnels as deep as 1,200 feet (370 m). It ran southwest to Bellingham Bay, on both sides of Squalicum Creek, an area of about one square mile (2.6 km 2). At its peak in the 1920s, the mine employed some ...
The Pickett House is the oldest house in the city of Bellingham, Washington, located on 910 Bancroft Street. Built in 1856 by United States Army Captain George Pickett, who later became a prominent general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [2]
Fort Bellingham (1856–1860) was a U.S. Army fort built to prevent attacks by Indians from Canada and from Russian territory, on the bayside villages of Fairhaven, Sehome and Whatcom. The site for the new fort was on a prairie that overlooked Bellingham Bay. It was the only open space on the bay and had a spring.
Bellingham and Everett finished ahead of the third place Vancouver Horse Doctors (45–52) and last place Victoria Legislators/Spokane Indians (41–58) in the final Northwestern League standings. [7] [8] [1] The Bellingham franchise folded from the Northwestern League after the 1905 season and did not play in the 1906 league.
Pages in category "History of Bellingham, Washington" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Foner, Eric et al. "Talking Civil War History: A Conversation with Eric Foner and James McPherson," Australasian Journal of American Studies (2011) 30#2 pp. 1–32 in JSTOR; Ford, Lacy, ed. A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction Blackwell, 2005) online; Grow, Matthew. "The shadow of the civil war: A historiography of civil war memory."
The Bellingham riots occurred on September 4, 1907, in Bellingham, Washington, United States. [1] A mob of 400–500 white men, predominantly members of the Asiatic Exclusion League , with intentions to exclude Indian immigrants from the work force of the local lumber mills, attacked the homes of the South Asian Indians. [ 2 ]
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.