David T. Denny
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- Mar 4, 1883The Bold Plan to Create an Island CityProminent citizens incorporate the Washington Improvement Company to carve a canal linking Lake Washington to Lake Union, promising to reclaim marshland and shift the city's geography.Seattle, WA
- Apr 29, 1885The Birth of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern RailwayBefore the boom, Seattle's civic leaders incorporated a grand, million-dollar vision to pierce the Cascades and connect the city to the interior.Seattle, WA
- Nov 25, 1885The Final Division of the Terry EstateAfter twenty years of shared ownership, the heirs of Seattle pioneer C.C. Terry divide the family’s downtown real estate holdings.Seattle, WA
- Mar 20, 1886The Great Seattle Police Reduction DebateCity officials and taxpayers clash over whether the Seattle police force should be downsized despite rising city tensions.Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
- Sep 15, 1887The Broken Promise of the UniversityA bitter civic dispute over why the territorial university moved from Port Townsend to Seattle, revealing 19th-century political maneuvering and broken handshakes.Seattle, WA
- Oct 31, 1893The Treasury Scandal: Thirty-Three IndictmentsFormer City Treasurer Adolph Krug and several prominent associates are indicted in a massive public money corruption scandal.Seattle, WA
- Jan 1, 1895The Homegrown Railroad That Opened the Snoqualmie CountrySeattle citizens incorporated the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern in 1885 to reach Gilman, North Bend and Snoqualmie Falls. Northern Pacific took control, receivership followed, and the line kept loggers alive through the depression.Seattle, WA
- Jan 24, 1895The First Wedding in Seattle, Celebrated Forty-Two Years LaterDavid and Louisa Denny gather four generations of pioneers at their Temperance Street home, where relics of the 1850s—and the certificate from Seattle’s first marriage—turn an anniversary into a founding story.Seattle, WA