Keyword(s): Eleanor Boba
For more than 50 years, the tugboat Anne W. worked Northwest waters, much of the time hauling barges from a gravel pit in Steilacoom to the shores of Lake Union in Seattle. Before being retired from s...
Berries have long been woven into the fabric of Washington food ways and agriculture. Before and after European settlement, Native tribespeople gathered wild berries, a significant part of their food ...
In the Richmond Beach neighborhood of Shoreline north of Seattle sits a quiet, four-acre refuge from the urban scene, one enjoyed by both the birds and humans who know how to find it. The roots of the...
Lucile Saunders McDonald distinguished herself in the fields of journalism and popular history through a prolific lifetime career that produced several thousand news features and columns, 13 published...
Ciscoe Morris (b. 1948) is a household name for many in the Pacific Northwest. A gardening guru with an inimitable personality, his enthusiasm for all growing things and his high energy have elevated ...
Humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935) and aviator Wiley Post (1898-1935) began what would be their final journey at the Renton Airport on August 7, 1935. They took off for Alaska with plans to travel onwar...
The city of Renton, located some 12 miles southeast of downtown Seattle along the southern shores of Lake Washington, began as a center for extraction industries and, later, manufacturing. Over the ye...
In this People's History, Eleanor Boba remembers the popular holiday-excursion trains sponsored by Seattle's University Village Shopping Center. Each December for about a decade starting in 1956 when ...
The Seattle Camera Club, a group of photography enthusiasts, was formed in 1924 and disbanded in 1929. Composed mostly of Issei (first-generation Japanese immigrant) men, the club also welcomed men of...
The Spirit of Washington Dinner Train brought the romance of the rails to King County's Eastside for 15 years from 1992 to 2007. For a price guests enjoyed an excursion through the communities east of...
In 1933 Seattle played a part in a blockbuster movie. Tugboat Annie, the story of a long-suffering female tug skipper in the mythical community of Secoma on Puget Sound, was the hit of the day, in man...
Over the course of his lifetime, much of it spent on the water, Joe D. Williamson (1909-1994) documented a wide swath of Northwest history with his camera, yet he did not consider photography his prim...
On May 5, 1942, with the United States at war with Japan, the U.S. War Defense Command announced the forced removal of Japanese and Japanese American families from the West Coast. Within months, some ...
In this People's History, Eleanor Boba explores the history of Yesler, an early settlement on the north shore of Union Bay on Seattle's Lake Washington shoreline. The town was platted in 1888 to suppo...
On October 20, 1853, the Duwamish Coal Company is formed to mine coal near the Black River located just south of Lake Washington. This is the first coal mined and shipped from King County.
On January 21, 1867, the Black River Post Office is established, the same day the Slaughter (renamed Auburn) and White River Post Offices open. Christian C. Clymer (?-1879/80), an early settler on the...
On September 5, 1875, settler Erasmus M. Smithers files a plat for a Town of Renton with the King County Assessor. He has lived and farmed in the Black River area for some 20 years, and, together with...
On April 20, 1900, citizens of the then-unincorporated town of Renton submit a petition to the King County Board of Commissioners protesting the use of Chinese and Japanese laborers on county-funded r...
On April 6, 1903, the United States Supreme Court rules against a Japanese teenager who had petitioned to overturn an order of deportation obtained by immigration officials in Seattle. Also known as t...
On February 7, 1905, the City of Seattle enters into a contract to sell the Town of Renton water drawn from Seattle's newly built Cedar River Water System. The pipeline from the Cedar River passes ben...
On May 31, 1934, naval architect Edwin Monk Sr. (1894-1973) launches the cruiser Nan at Redondo Beach on the Des Moines waterfront in south King County. The boat will be a live-aboard home for his fam...
On the weekend of June 16-17, 1934, a 60-year old sailing ship opens as a museum on the Seattle waterfront. Berthed immediately northeast of the Ballard Locks on the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the St...
On May 5, 1942, the United States War Defense Command announces the forced removal of Japanese and Japanese-American families from Exclusion Area No. 39, a large semi-rural region of King County, Wash...
On February 9, 1963, the first Boeing 727 Trijet lifts off from Renton Municipal Airport adjacent to Boeing’s Renton plant. The three-man crew consists of chief test pilot S. Lewis “Lew&rd...
On April 9, 1967, the prototype Boeing 737 takes off from Boeing Field in Seattle. The so-called "Baby Boeing" is a narrow-bodied, twinjet, medium-range plane designed to fill the gap between the 727 ...
On July 15, 1978, Treasures of Tutankhamun, an exhibit of 55 artifacts from the famous tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, opens at the Seattle Center Flag Pavilion, where it will run until November 15. Tut...
On February 25, 1986, the Supreme Court of the United States hands down a decision affirming the right of local jurisdictions to regulate the location of adult-entertainment venues. The case is brough...
Journalist and historian Lucile McDonald (1898-1992) is honored at the Women Making History conference in Bellevue on March 9, 1991. The State of Washington, City of Bellevue, and King County all proc...