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Charles Fletcher left the following account of his work on the Seattle, Renton and Southern Railway in the 1920s and 1930s. This electric interurban connected downtown Seattle with Renton along Rainie...
Elmer S. Yates (b. 1917) was raised in the Rainier Valley and attended Franklin High School. He went to sea and became a ship's captain. In 1996, he wrote to the Rainier Valley Historical Society from...
Elmer Yates (b. 1917) was raised in the Rainier Valley and attended Franklin High School. He went to sea and became a ship's captain. In 1996, he wrote to the Rainier Valley Historical Society from hi...
Elmer Yates (b. 1917) was raised in the Rainier Valley and graduated from Franklin High School in 1934. He went to sea and became a ship's captain. In about 1996, he wrote to the Rainier Valley Histor...
Danna C. Clancy of Tacoma found this account of the Hellenthal family and early life in Columbia City. It was written by her husband's great uncle on April 4, 1974.
In 1999, 90-year old John Parker of Port Ludlow penned this account of the 1921 explosion of the Hitt's Fireworks factory in the Rainier Valley. One woman working at the plant was killed.
Seattle's oldest charity, the Seattle Children's Home originated as the Ladies' Relief Society in April 1884. The founding members intended "general benevolence and charity ... with special emphasis o...
Seattle Pacific University, on the north side of Queen Anne Hill, started in 1891 as an elementary school with a goal to train missionaries. By 2001, it had grown to almost 3,500 students and offered ...
On April 6, 1896, the City Council appoints attorney and businessman William D. Wood (1858-1917) as Mayor of the City of Seattle to fill the unexpired term of Frank D. Black. In July 1897, Wood resign...
On April 10, 1898, Seattle Police Officer Thomas L. Roberts (1862-1898) is murdered by ex-convict Richard H. Lee near 18th Avenue and Jefferson Street. Officer George E. Deigh is wounded in a gunbattl...
In 1901, Bellevue's first church, the Congregational Church built at the southeast corner of 108th Avenue SE and NE 8th Street, is established.
In 1902, the Enumclaw Telephone Company begins operation serving seven subscribers, most of whom are members of the extended family of Axel G. Hanson (1864-1943), owner of the White River Lumber and S...
On November 8, 1904, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) wins the presidency and Republicans win state offices in Washington. Republican Albert E. Mead (1861-1913), nominated through the influence of railr...
On January 22, 1905, the steamship Minnesota sails for Asia with 300 passengers and the largest cargo to that point ever to cross the Pacific Ocean. Shipments range from "a paper of pins to a hogshead...
On August 12, 1905, automobiles and motorcycles race for the first time in the Northwest at The Meadows racetrack near Georgetown. "Contrary to expectations no one was killed and on one injured. One m...
On March 6, 1906, voters elect Republican William Hickman Moore (1861-1946) as mayor of the City of Seattle.
On February 23, 1911, burglary suspect John Ford murders Officer Judson P. Davis (1878-1911) on Capitol Hill. Ford will die two days later of wounds received from Davis's partner.
On July 4, 1911, Seattle Police Officer Henry L. Harris (1882-1911) is shot and killed in Pioneer Square by an unknown assailant. Investigating officers are hindered by large numbers of intoxicated an...
On July 12, 1913, water from the Green River reaches customers in Tacoma at the rate of 42 million gallons a day. The headworks, pipeline, and receiving reservoir cost $2.25 million and took two years...
On March 3, 1914, voters elect Hiram C. Gill (1866-1919) as mayor of the City of Seattle. Gill was re-elected to a second two-year term in 1916.
On December 24, 1914, Ballard resident Wilfred Bagley mistakes Seattle Police Officer Arthur K. Ruckart (1887-1914) for a chicken thief and fatally shoots him.
In 1919, The Seattle Public Library establishes a Blind Division to circulate books and magazines to blind readers throughout Washington. Librarian Fanny (Reynolds) Howley is appointed to head the dep...