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The Ballard Boat Works was started as one of 20 maritime shipyards operating in the Ballard area of Seattle in the early 20th century. Sivert Sagstad, the shipyard's founder, built a variety of fishin...
Clinton C. Filson (1850-1919) moved to Washington in 1890, opened a series of general stores, and within a few years was selling clothing and work gear to gold prospectors flocking to the mines of Mon...
Alice Robertson Carr (later de Creeft, 1899-1996) came to the Pacific Northwest early in her life and as a young emerging sculptor is credited with two public monuments for Seattle's Woodland Park in ...
The Chief Seattle Council is one of seven Scouts BSA councils in Washington. It serves the Puget Sound region, including Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula. The Seattle council traces its origins to 19...
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close, who grew up in Everett and Tacoma and studied art at the University of Washington, redefined the portrait in the contemporary art world beginning in 1967 with his first l...
Festál, a joint community and city-led effort to provide a series of cultural festivals at the Seattle Center, was founded in 1997. The origins of the program may be traced back to the 1962 Wor...
Born in Seattle, James FitzGerald studied architecture at the University of Washington, then traveled and studied fine-art painting. During the Great Depression he worked on projects funded by the fed...
The painter William Ivey began his art career at a young age, with art instruction at the Cornish School in Seattle. Ivey's interest in pursuing art as a profession was interrupted by World War II. Af...
For more than a century, the Kroll Map Company has been a fixture of the downtown business community in Seattle. Three generations of the Loacker family have continued the work started by founder Carl...
The sculptor and painter Alonzo Victor Lewis began his career in the early twentieth century modeling portraits and monumental statues in bronze, first in Tacoma, and later in Seattle after relocating...
Before 1945, residents of Mercer Island, on the east side of Lake Washington, relied on borrowing books from Seattle across the lake because there was no public library on the island. That year, with ...
The Muckleshoot Library is located on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation on the Enumclaw Plateau in southeast King County, midway between the cities of Auburn and Enumclaw. The library began in 1968 i...
Herbert A. Munter began his flying career as a teenager, with a homemade aircraft flown in 1912. He went on to become a record-setting aviator, and worked to promote both commercial and pleasure flyin...
When the City of Newcastle, located on the east side of Lake Washington between Bellevue and Renton, incorporated in 1994, there was no library within the new city's boundaries to serve its residents....
On August 30, 1909, the Viking, a replica longship constructed by a Norwegian-American boatbuilder, Sivert Sagstad (1880-1946) of Ballard, lands on the western shore of Lake Washington near the Natura...
On April 18, 1911, a group of Seattle civic leaders adopts articles of incorporation for a local branch of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), which was founded on the East Coast just the year before. Th...
On July 17, 1913, Alys ("Tiny") McKey Bryant flies to a record height of 2,900 feet above downtown Seattle. The flight is one of several exhibition flights above the city in celebration of the Golden ...
On March 3, 1914, Clinton C. Filson (1850-1919) receives confirmation of the patent (no. 1088891) for his company's signature "Cruiser shirt" from the U.S. Patent Office. Filson filed the shirt design...
On April 18, 1917, Florence Haubris Wehn (1889-1917), the wife of prominent Seattle sculptor James Wehn (1882-1973), is brutally murdered just blocks from the couple's studio home on the west side of ...
On July 25, 1920, Seattle aviator Herbert A. Munter (1895-1970) flies his Boeing BB-L6 (Model 8) biplane over the summit of Mount Rainier. The flight is the first one in history to overfly the peak an...
On Armistice Day, November 11, 1924, a public dedication is held in Centralia for The Sentinel, a bronze 10-foot-tall statue by sculptor Alonzo Victor Lewis that depicts an American soldier on guard d...
On March 29, 1925, a new memorial to President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) is dedicated in Seattle's Woodland Park. Sculptor Alice Robertson Carr (1899-1996) created the sculptural elements of the m...
On August 10, 1940, two U.S. Forest Service fire guards, Francis Lufkin (1914-1998) and Glen H. Smith (1914-1988), become the first smokejumpers to parachute into a forest wildfire in the state of Was...
On January 11, 1945, the first public library on Mercer Island opens in East Seattle at the northwest corner of the island, which has been the center of the island's community for half a century. The ...
On May 4, 1946, the first Snoqualmie Library opens in the city of Snoqualmie, located in the Cascade foothills of eastern King County. The library occupies a single upstairs room of the town hall buil...
On Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1954, the McMicken Library, located in the McMicken Heights area of south King County, opens its doors to the public. The new library is the end result of efforts led...
On June 17, 1962, following six years of planning, negotiations with city officials, and a not-always-smooth design process, a monumental statue of Leif Erikson (ca. 970-ca. 1020) is presented to the ...
On January 23, 1964, firefighters from the Ballard fire station in Seattle set ablaze the beached hulk of the former SS Bering steamship. After sitting for two decades on the shores of Puget Soun...