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3 stories matching alder

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  1. Seattle Investors Plan a Boot Factory and Tannery

    Before tech and aerospace, Seattle’s business elite plotted to stop shipping raw hides to San Francisco and instead build a city of tanneries and shoe factories.

    Jan 23, 1877The Daily IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyBoom & Bust

  2. The Promised Land of North River

    A booster advertisement in 1878 paints the North River Valley as a hidden agricultural utopia awaiting two hundred families.

    Aug 6, 1878The Daily IntelligencerNorth River Valley, Pacific CountyBoom & Bust

  3. The Struggle to Clear the Skagit River

    Loggers and settlers face a massive, shifting timber jam on the Skagit River, with locals debating the impact of land ownership on the future of the valley.

    Nov 8, 1876The Daily IntelligencerSkagit Valley, Skagit CountyFollow the Money

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