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The Admiralty Head Lighthouse, built in 1903 by the Army Corps of Engineers, is located in Fort Casey State Park near Coupeville on Whidbey Island. The beacon, high on a bluff, 127 feet above sea leve...
Alki Point, today part of West Seattle, stretches into Puget Sound to form the southern boundary of Elliott Bay. It is part of a much larger area originally inhabited by the Duwamish Indians. In Septe...
Blake Island, a 476-acre Washington State Park, lies in Puget Sound approximately eight miles from downtown Seattle. It is located in east central Kitsap County, four miles off Alki Point, between the...
The Browns Point Lighthouse was built in 1933 by the U.S. Lighthouse Service, and marks the hazardous shoal and north entrance to Tacoma's Commencement Bay. It was first marked in 1887 with a post lan...
Camp William G. Long Nature Center, Camp Long for short, is a 68-acre Seattle city park, located at 5200 35th Avenue SW in West Seattle. The recreational area was created during the Great Depress...
The Dofflemyer Point Lighthouse, the southernmost light in Puget Sound, marks an important turning point for ships entering Budd Inlet. Located seven miles north of Olympia in Boston Harbor, it was Pu...
The Great Northern Tunnel is a one-mile-long tunnel that runs beneath downtown Seattle from Alaskan Way (below Virginia Street) on the waterfront, to 4th Avenue S and Washington Street. The Great Nort...
John Huelsdonk and his wife, Dora (Wolff) Huelsdonk, were the first settlers on the Hoh River and the Olympic Peninsula's most famous pioneers. Huelsdonk's homestead, claimed in 1891, was on the west ...
Island County, the eighth oldest county in Washington, was created on January 6, 1853, by the Oregon Territorial Legislature from a portion of Thurston County and was named for the myriad of islands i...
Jefferson County, located on the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington, was created by the Oregon Territorial Legislature on December 22, 1852, from a portion of Lewis County. It was named in h...
There are two lighthouses located on San Juan Island, the second-largest island in the San Juan archipelago. The Lime Kiln Light Station, built in 1919, is located in Lime Kiln State Park, on the west...
The city of Longview is located at the confluence of the Cowlitz and the Columbia rivers in western Cowlitz County, 66 miles upriver from the Pacific Ocean and 67 miles south of Olympia, the state cap...
The Marrowstone Point Lighthouse, built in 1918 by the Lighthouse Service, is the smallest lighthouse on Puget Sound, marking the low sandy shoal on the northeast end of Marrowstone Island and the ent...
McCleary is located at the southern end of the Olympic Peninsula in eastern Grays Harbor County, 27 miles east of Aberdeen and 15 miles west of Olympia, the state capital. The surrounding area is heav...
On August 1, 1862, Victor Smith (1827-1865), Collector of Customs for the District of Puget Sound, sails into Port Townsend on the lighthouse tender USS Shubrick to move the Customs records to Port An...
Just before dawn on September 21, 1868, 26 S'Klallam Indians, led by a man known locally as Lame Jack (or Nu-mah the Bad by his tribesmen), conduct a raid on a party of 18 Tsimshian Indians camped on ...
On November 4, 1875, the SS Pacific, en route to San Francisco from Victoria, B.C. with approximately 275 passengers and crew, collides with the S/V Orpheus, 40 miles southwest of Cape Flattery. Both ...
On September 22, 1890, members of the Olympic Exploring Expedition, led by Lieutenant Joseph P. O'Neil (1862-1938), scale one of the peaks of Mount Olympus. Mount Olympus, located in Jefferson County,...
Late Wednesday evening, October 3, 1894, outlaw Thomas Blanck (1870-1895) enters a saloon in Seattle with a gun, intending to steal the day's proceeds. While the proprietor, William H. Codrick, tries ...
Early Saturday morning, October 27, 1894, a fire in the West Street Hotel, located on the second floor of the Colman Block Annex, a commercial warehouse located at the foot Columbia Street in Seattle,...
On March 17, 1895, notorious desperado Thomas Blanck (1870-1895) engineers a mass escape from the King County Jail, using an imitation handgun carved from pieces of wood. In October 1894, he had been ...
On April 8, 1895, a firedamp (methane gas) explosion kills 23 miners in the Blue Canyon Coal Mine located on the southeast shore of Lake Whatcom, about 10 miles southeast of Bellingham. Only two of th...
On January 14, 1899, the four-masted bark Andelana is lying at anchor at Tacoma preparatory to taking aboard a large shipment of wheat bound for Europe. During the night, a squall sweeps across Commen...
On September 7, 1899, Alfred Hamilton (1872-1902) shoots and kills prominent attorney David. M. Woodbury (1849-1899) without provocation. Hamilton, a notorious miscreant, has been wandering around Ana...
On March 30, 1900, George Webster (1871-1900) is hanged in the courtyard of the Spokane County Courthouse for the murder of Lise C. Aspland (1852-1897). This strange homicide, which took place at the ...
On Wednesday morning, July 4, 1900, 43 passengers are killed and many others are injured and maimed when an overcrowded trolley car carrying more than 100 passengers to downtown Tacoma for the Indepen...
On August 23, 1901, Charles W. Nordstrom (1849-1901) is hanged in the garret of the King County Courthouse for the premeditated murder of 20-year-old William Mason. This notorious murder, which took p...
On the stormy night of January 2, 1903, the Norwegian bark Prince Arthur is en route in ballast from Valparaiso, Chile, to Esquimalt, British Columbia, for lumber when the vessel strikes an offshore r...