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15 stories matching monterey
- Ida May Love Went to Sea as 'Dan McArdle'
A Whatcom newlywed walked out on her husband, her skirts and her name to serve seven weeks aboard the warship Monterey — and the Post-Intelligencer tracked her to a Leavenworth dance hall, where she was still talking about 'us boys.'
- The Navy Bunkered Abroad While Seattle Coal Sat in the Harbor
When the USS Monterey steamed north to Puget Sound to test Washington coal, it exposed a sore point: U.S. warships had long been burning British Columbia fuel right past Seattle and Tacoma's own coal docks.
- The Floating Fortress at Baker's Wharf
Seattle prepares for the Fourth of July as a heavily armed U.S. Navy monitor arrives to show off its new steel power.
- The Navy Puts Puget Sound Coal to the Test
Federal authorities order warships Yorktown and Monterey to Seattle to determine if local coal can power the U.S. Navy.
- Seattle Swarms the USS Monterey
The white monitor anchored in Seattle harbor becomes an overnight sensation as hundreds of curious locals crowd aboard to inspect the warship's machinery.
- The Man Who Bet on Seattle's Canal—and Rockefeller's Land
A railroad executive predicts a canal will make Seattle the greatest harbor on earth, and admits he's been buying up lakefront during the hard times.
- Seattle Celebrates the Great Northern Arrival
Thousands flock to Pioneer Place for the opening of the Mineral Palace, marking the completion of the railway and the Fourth of July.
- Seattle's Bid to Be the Liverpool of America
In 1895, boosters imagined a Lake Washington ship canal turning Puget Sound into a freshwater harbor for world commerce, coal trade, and naval power.
- The Man Who Walked the Continent: A Fifteen-Year Pilgrimage Ends in Seattle
Frank M. Streamer arrives in the Pacific Northwest after completing a staggering 14,000-mile journey on foot across the United States, offering a rare glimpse into the grueling reality of 19th-century travel.
- The Great 'Chautauqua' Debate
After weeks of indecision, a committee chooses Point Defiance for a massive cultural assembly site, highlighting the rapid civic growth and ambition of the Puget Sound region.
- The Gyroscope Miracle from Tracyton
A local invention aims to revolutionize seafaring by creating an artificial horizon, allowing ships to navigate through dense fog.
- The Hotel del Monte of the Northwest
Tacoma Land Company plans a massive, luxury seaside hotel to rival California's best.
- The Violent Path of a Border Raider
A profile of a man whose life of violence—from the Mexican War to the Indian Territory—ended in a Seattle jail cell.
- The Palace on Rails: A Tycoon’s Private Journey to the Pacific
Dr. W. Seward Webb, brother-in-law to a Vanderbilt, prepares a $100,000 two-month excursion across the continent in a private, four-car train equipped with a piano, library, and hidden servants.
- A Civil War Survivor’s Final Journey
After surviving Libby Prison and a life of devotion to family and church, Shirland Hitchcock dies in a tragic accident at his daughter’s White Bluffs home.
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- The 'Kid Mayor' of Michigan Found in Port Townsend
A brilliant young con artist once known as the 'Kid Mayor' has fled the Washington Territory after his real identity—and a trail of fraudulent bonds—finally caught up with him.
- Mukilteo residents protest Japanese labor at Crown Lumber Company
A local improvement club organizes a mass meeting to demand the hiring of white workers, marking the start of an anti-Japanese campaign in the region.
- Navy Yard Confirmed for Port Orchard
A Congressional commission ends deliberation on the Pacific Coast site, settling on Kitsap County.
- The California Dream Comes to Puget Sound
An ambitious Eastern investor transforms a Maury Island homestead into an experimental fruit orchard, signaling the future of the region's agricultural ambitions.
- The King of California: An Institutionalized Dreamer
A laborer from Enumclaw with grand delusions of immense wealth and heavenly status is committed to the asylum at Steilacoom.
- The Boom Town That Never Quite Was
A speculative real estate advertisement touts Mukilteo as the next great industrial powerhouse, promising a future of ship-building and commerce that would forever alter the Snohomish County shoreline.
- Philippine Government Officials Bet Big on Kennewick Orchards
Investors return from service in Manila to launch a $125,000 fruit enterprise on the Highlands, aiming to stabilize the local market with a new canning and by-products plant.
- The Preacher Who Turned 170 Acres of Wilderness Into a Home
When Port Townsend could not pay its Methodist minister enough to live on, Rev. Laubach moved to Discovery Bay and built a farm — house, fences, orchard and skiff — with his own hands.