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Boosted by the railroad and expanding trade, Tacoma boomed during the 1880s. The population rose from barely 1,000 inhabitants in 1880 to more than 36,000 a decade later, much of the growth coming after the Northern Pacific completed its transcontinental line to Tacoma in 1887. Imports of all kinds, including tea from Japan, crossed the docks that expanded over the Tacoma tideflats, as did even larger volumes of exports, led by lumber, coal, and wheat.

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