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The Seattle Symphony was founded in 1903, and while few, if any, ... The Seattle general strike (University of Washington Press, 2018.) on 1919; Jones, Nard (1972). ...
Seattle Camera Club founded. 1925 Sears, Roebuck store in business. Eagles Auditorium Building constructed. Seattle Planning Commission established. [33] 1926 – U.S. Naval Air Station established at Sand Point. 1928 – Civic Auditorium and Paramount Theatre [14] open. 1929 – Seattle Urban League founded. 1930
Skid Road: an Informal Portrait of Seattle (revised and updated, first illustrated ed.). Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-95846-4. "The people and their land". Puget Sound Native Art and Culture. Seattle Art Museum. July 4, 2003 dead link ] Phelps, Myra L. (1978). Public works in Seattle. Seattle: Seattle ...
Seattle (/ s i ˈ æ t əl / ⓘ see-AT-əl) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 755,078 in 2023, [3] it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the county seat of King County, the most populous county in Washington.
Arthur Armstrong Denny (June 20, 1822 – January 9, 1899) was an American politician and businessman who is regarded as one of the founders of Seattle, Washington. [1] He founded the Denny Party, [1] [2] and was later the city's wealthiest citizen. He was a 9-term member of the territorial legislature. [1]
On April 10, 1851, a wagon party headed by Arthur A. Denny left Cherry Grove, Illinois and headed west. [1] The party included Arthur Denny's father John Denny, his stepmother, two of his older brothers who ultimately settled in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, his younger brother David Denny, his wife, Mary Ann Boren, Mary's younger sister Louisa, and their brother Carson Boren. [2]
Denny circa 1875. David Thomas Denny (March 17, 1832 [1] – November 25, 1903 [2]) was a member of the Denny Party, who are generally collectively credited as the founders of Seattle, Washington, United States.
These organizations were led by the newly founded Washington Territorial Anti-Chinese Congress, who jointly declared that by the end of 1885 all Chinamen were to have left the city or face consequences. As they gained immense popularity they began to pool funds and catalog the Chinese residents throughout Seattle. [28]