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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]
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.
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 ...
August 21: The Beatles perform at the Seattle Center Coliseum; they would do so once more just over two years later. 1965 April 29: The 6.7 M w Puget Sound earthquake affected western Washington with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ), causing seven deaths and $12.5–28 million in financial losses in the Puget Sound region .
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;
Women are granted the right to vote in Washington. They had briefly enjoyed this right in the 1880s before Washington gained statehood. [12] March 1: An avalanche near Stevens Pass kills 96 people, making it the deadliest avalanche in U.S. history. [13] 1913 - The Washington state parks system is established. [14]
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.
Location of Seattle in King County and Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...