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| 1882 | 3 |
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266 stories matching histor
- Battle over Historic Steamer Boiler on South Tenth Street
Civic leaders and the Historical Society are at odds over the permanent placement of a steam-powered relic.
- The Apple Trees That Sailed From England in a Sea Captain's Cabin
Seeds saved from a farewell dinner in 1833 were planted at Fort Nisqually and grew into the finest apple trees north of the Columbia. Now an editor wants Tacoma to move them to a park before the squirrels of Rosston are their only company.
- Legal Snag Blocks State Funding for Historical Building
State funds for a new historical building are at risk because the city's park board lacks the legal authority to deed park land to the state.
- The Day Washington Was Born: A City Holds Its Breath
As the nation celebrates statehood, Seattle gathers in a packed hall to hear speeches on liberty, land fraud, and the future of the 'Queen City.'
- The Pig War's Lingering Ghost
Decades after the 'Pig War' nearly ignited a conflict between the U.S. and Britain, Colonel Granville O. Haller presents a historical accounting of the San Juan Island boundary dispute to the Washington State Historical Society.
- The Great 1894 Flood Devastates the Pacific Northwest
As rivers finally begin to recede, towns from Conconully to Portland recount the total destruction of homes, bridges, and livelihoods in the wake of the historic spring freshet.
- The Day the Cardinal Rode Through the Mud: A Historic Union of Northern and Southern Presbyterians
In a rare moment of post-Civil War reconciliation, thousands gathered in Seattle to witness the historic meeting of two Presbyterian Assemblies that had been divided by the Mason-Dixon line for decades.
- The Passing of the Duke of York
The leader of the Clallam people, a historic figure and friend to early pioneers, dies in Port Townsend with plans for a monument in his honor.
- The Empty Vault: How the Pioneers' Association Went Broke
A financial audit of the Washington Territorial Association reveals a treasury with no money and a membership list full of ghosts, raising questions about the future of Seattle's oldest civic society.
- The General Who Conquered Rainier First
A century after his perilous climb, Gen. A.V. Kautz recounts the first recorded ascent of Mount Rainier to a Seattle reporter, correcting the historical record on glaciers and glory.
- The Name Stays: Rainier Ruled Permanent
Federal authorities rebuff fourth attempt to rename Washington’s highest peak to Mount Tacoma.
- A Haunting Meeting in the New City of Everett
A local dentist meets the man who helped capture his grandfather, the radical abolitionist John Brown, in an unexpected historical encounter.
- Cleopatra Arrives in Seattle
With two carloads of scenery and an army of supernumeraries, Fanny Davenport brings the glitz and drama of Ancient Egypt to the stage at the Broadway Theater.
- The Boat Builder and the Missing Cornerstone
Courtland Ethridge arrived in Olympia in 1851, built some of its earliest landmarks, and left behind a Masonic hall with a mystery buried under it.
- The End of the Old Wallula Crossing
A historic Columbia River ferry, rendered obsolete by new competition, finds a second life upriver at White Bluffs.
- A Packed House Watches a Dying Cardinal Bring Down the Curse of Rome
Touring tragedian Keene fills the Olympia Theater with Bulwer's 'Richelieu' — and promises Shakespeare's Richard III for tonight, with 'but a few seats left.'
- The 1825 Millstones That Fed the Oregon Country Headed for Seattle
A Stevens County man sent the Hudson's Bay Company's oldest Pacific Coast millstones to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, where they joined the state historical exhibit.
- City Rejects Wright Park Museum Proposal
Tacoma's park board unanimously denies historical society's bid for a new building.
- The Battle of the West Street Crossing
A lone police officer stands his ground against a railroad crew in a decades-long property dispute.
- The Eight-Hour Day: Washington Becomes the First to Legislate Labor's Limits for Private Industry
In a landmark session at the Olympia legislature, lawmakers passed an unprecedented bill declaring eight hours a legal workday for all labor performed by or for corporations and individuals, not just public works.
- The Great Northern Railroad Strike
A historic federation of railway workers defies their own union leaders to launch a massive wildcat strike across the Pacific Northwest.
- The Great Northwest Flood of 1894
Historic deluges across the Columbia, Fraser, and Skagit river valleys have paralyzed rail travel and left thousands displaced from their homes.
- Fire Ravages Olympia’s Government Buildings
The Surveyor General’s office, the Land Office, and a historic church are destroyed in a devastating overnight blaze.
- The Padlocking of Whitechapel
Chief of Police Rogers orders the eviction of forty-five women living in Seattle's historic red-light district.
- The Boom That Built Bellingham: How Four Towns Merged Into One City
In the spring of 1904, the bustling communities of Sehome, Whatcom, Fairhaven, and Bellingham were rapidly converging. With housing prices soaring and carpenters working day and night, this historic merger created the city we know today.
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- The Miracle Medicine of Seattle
A nineteenth-century testimonial for a ‘Histogenetic’ cure highlights the era’s wild medical marketplace.
- The Tragic End of Arthur Hislop
A Tekoa man, plagued by chronic pain from an old railroad injury, takes his own life in a quiet, devastating final act.
- An 1889 Patient Testimonial for Dr. J. Eugene Jordan
A nineteenth-century resident of the Seattle area shares a harrowing, vivid account of surviving chronic illness through a controversial 'histogenetic' medical system.
- Seattle Patient Praises Dr. Jordan's Histogenetic Treatment
A local man claims that after years of suffering and failed medical treatment, a 'Histogenetic' system cured his long-standing wounds and broken health.
- The Miracle at the Brunswick: A Seattleite’s Recovery from 'Incurable' Agony
After years of excruciating pain and failed treatments in San Francisco, a local resident credits Dr. J. Eugcup Jordan’s controversial 'Histocentric' system for saving their life.