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- The Mayor's War on 'Black Chapel'
Mayor J. T. Ronald vetoes a saloon license in a notorious district, decrying the density of vice in a three-hundred-foot square.
- The Paving of Second Street
A pivotal public works project in 1889 captures a city in the midst of rapid transformation.
- Trapped by the Skagit River's Winter Fury
An eyewitness account from January 1885 describes the deadly isolation of the Skagit Valley as the river choked with ice, cutting off pioneer settlers from the outside world.
- The Fight for Breathable Air in Seattle's Tenements
City health officials launch an inspection campaign to enforce density limits in overcrowded boarding houses.
- The Strange 'Living' Well of Port Townsend
A dry well dug in an addition to Port Townsend acts as a natural, pneumatic barometer, baffling local scientists.
- The Great 1890 Headcount
Federal agents prepare to survey Washington's rapidly growing population, bringing new jobs and a complex pay scale to the frontier.
- The Pioneer Dream: Settling Seattle as an Organized Colony
In 1877, Seattle newspapers championed the idea of 'colonizing' the Washington Territory to solve the isolation of homesteading, mirroring today's debates over density and regional growth.
- The Utopian Seattle of 1985
A satirical piece of 'future news' from 1885 imagines a Seattle transformed by prohibition, electric airships, and strict urban planning.
- An Affordable Dream: A 60x121 Foot Seattle Homestead
In 1877, a lot on Second Street—now the heart of Seattle's high-density urban core—was listed for sale as a private residential homestead.