Keyword(s): Catherine Hinchliff
In Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life, HistoryLink.org's own Jim Kershner chronicles the life one of Washington's greatest treasures: civil rights activist and lawyer Carl Maxey. Kershner recounts Maxey's Di...
Ethiopians and Eritreans have lived in the Seattle area since the late 1960s, beginning with university students. From 1980 with the passage of the Refugee Act until about 2000, thousands of Ethiopian...
The Jefferson Park Golf Course opened in May 1915. It was the first municipally owned golf course in Seattle and the third golf course in King County. The course is located at 4101 Beacon Avenue S in ...
Port Orchard, located in south Kitsap County, was platted as Sidney in 1886 by Frederick Stevens, who wanted to name the future town after his father, Sidney Merrill Stevens. He chose a site on the so...
Elmer Stuart Smith was a central figure in the Centralia Massacre that occurred on November 11, 1919. Smith had advised a group of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) members that they had a right t...
Walker C. Smith was a leading member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union also known as the Wobblies, who wrote and edited socialist newspapers, philosophical tracts, pamphlets, satirica...
On September 15, 1890, Sidney becomes the first city in Kitsap County to incorporate. It is classified as a town of the fourth class. Immediately following the incorporation, the new Sidney mayor and ...
On May 6, 1914, the newly founded Women's University Club meets for the first time in a room in the Henry Building, located at 1318 4th Avenue in downtown Seattle. Even before the first meeting, 276 ...
On Monday, December 22, 1919, a group of Kalama residents meets at the Kalama Business Men's Club to discuss the formation of a port district. Kalama is located in Cowlitz County in Southwestern Washi...
On the evening of March 13, 1920, a Montesano jury finds seven defendants involved in the "Centralia Massacre" guilty of the murder of Warren O. Grimm. The men are all members of the Industrial Worker...
On April 13, 1920, the Port of Silverdale is formed by a citizen vote in a special election. Silverdale is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County located on the northern tip of the Dyes Inlet on...
On July 19, 1923, Keyport residents vote in a special election to establish the Port of Keyport. The Port will construct a public dock to use as a landing for the "Mosquito Fleet," the "swarm" of smal...
On February 10, 1927, Dewatto voters submit a petition to the Board of County Commissioners of Mason County, and state their desire to create and establish a port district. Dewatto residents hope to g...
In October 1952, Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), a conservative Republican from Wisconsin, makes his first political visit to Washington state. McCarthy comes to Washington to campaign for Genera...
On October 23, 1952, Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), a conservative Republican from Wisconsin, delivers the keynote speech for the Republican Party at the Washington State Press Club's fourth ann...
On October 23, 1952, Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), a conservative Republican from Wisconsin, storms out of Seattle's KING-TV studios after his televised speech is canceled. KING-TV officials, f...
On September 15, 1964, Skamania County voters approve the merger of the Port of Wind River and the Port of North Bonneville, forming the Port of Skamania County. The consolidation follows three years ...
On March 8, 2008, the Pacific Northwest African American Museum opens, welcoming an estimated 3,000 visitors. The museum, housed in Seattle's old Colman School building at 2300 S Massachusetts Street,...
On May 18, 2008, in Seattle, the University of Washington holds a graduation ceremony to honor 450 Japanese American (known as Nikkei) students who were forced to leave the UW for internment camps dur...
On the morning of May 31, 2008, the Wing Luke Asian Museum opens its permanent home in the newly renovated East Kong Yick Building at 719 S King Street. In celebration of the museum's opening, the div...