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- May 25, 1877Life at the Port Discovery MillA dispatch from the bustling lumber town of Port Discovery, where 200 men—including Chinese and Indigenous laborers—keep one of the Pacific Coast's largest mills running day and night.Port Discovery, WA
- Sep 25, 1885Black Diamond Coal Operator Replaces Chinese Workers With White LaborThe operator of the Black Diamond coal works discharged all Chinese employees and replaced them with white labor, a change greeted with jubilation amid exclusionary sentiment in Black Diamond and Franklin.Black Diamond, WA
- Mar 25, 1890Tragedy in the Stetson-Post RowThree travelers en route to Snohomish perished in a fire, their bodies found huddled together in an attempted escape.Seattle, WA
- Dec 17, 1908The Boom That Wasn't: 350 Workers Stranded in NewportAs the Idaho & Washington Northern extension stalled, contractors shipped in men before camps were ready; saloons fed and sheltered the stranded workforce.Newport, WA
- Dec 28, 1916The County Agent, the Sugar Beet, and the Strawberry Harvest That Finally Went RightIn his 1916 annual report, county agriculturalist Lee M. Lampson chronicled a quiet revolution in Benton County — homegrown seed, revived sugar beets, cooperative buying, and the federal employment office that finally matched a thousand strawberry pickers to the ripening crop.Kennewick, WA