C. H. Prescott
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- May 8, 1884The Ghost Hotel on the Old School LotA legal dispute over a prime piece of downtown real estate reveals a broken promise to build a hotel, fueling rumors of a makeshift boarding house for Chinese laborers.Seattle, WA
- May 1, 1890A Five-Million Dollar Railway GambleNorthern Pacific interests reveal massive plans to connect North Yakima to Shoalwater Bay, signaling a new era of dominance in Washington transit.Yakima, WA
- Jun 29, 1895The Dredge That Would Carve Seattle's Ship CanalIn 1895, Eugene Semple's Seattle & Lake Washington Waterway Company signed the largest dredging contract ever awarded in America — 35 million cubic yards of tide-flat muck, at 18 cents a yard, to cut a canal from Puget Sound to Lake Washington.Seattle, WA