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Arthur A. Denny and Luther Collins were the first commissioners of King County after its creation in 1852. Around the same time, David Swinson "Doc" Maynard began settling the land immediately south of Denny's. Seattle in its early decades relied on the timber industry, shipping logs (and later, milled timber) to San Francisco. A climax forest ...
The Firm Friend of the Whites, and for Him the City of Seattle was Named by Its Founders." On the reverse is the inscription "Baptismal name, Noah Sealth, Age probably 80 years." [10] The site was restored, and a native sculpture was added in 1976 and again in 2011. [citation needed] Several of Seattle's descendants also gained fame in their ...
Meanwhile, Arthur Denny became the second richest man in town, after Yesler, and got himself elected to territorial legislature. From that position, he tried unsuccessfully to get the territorial capital moved to Seattle from its then supposedly temporary location in Olympia. The other potential money prizes were the territorial penitentiary ...
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.
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.
Monica Sone (September 1, 1919 – September 5, 2011), born Kazuko Itoi, was a Japanese American writer, best known for her 1953 autobiographical memoir Nisei Daughter, which tells of the Japanese American experience in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s and in the World War II internment camps, and is an important text in Asian American and Women's Studies courses.
1868 – The Seattle Library Association is founded. [7] 1869 – Henry A. Atkins becomes mayor. 1870 Central School opens. [3] Church of Our Lady of Good Help founded. Population: 1,107. [2] 1873 – Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad organized. [3] 1874 – Gas street lamps installed. [3] 1875 San Francisco–Seattle steamship service begins. [3]
History of Seattle, Washington 1900–1940: Seattle experienced rapid growth and transformation in the early 20th century, establishing itself as a leader in the Pacific Northwest. The Klondike Gold Rush led to massive immigration, diversifying the city's ethnic mix with arrivals of Japanese, Filipinos, Europeans, and European-Americans.