Keyword(s): Phil Dougherty
From two competing charter services formed in Anchorage in 1932, Alaska Airlines has grown into the fifth-largest airline in the United States. It began operating under the name Alaska Airlines in 194...
The Chinese Village was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (A-Y-P) Exposition in Seattle in 1909. The exposition took place between June 1 and October 16, 1909, drawing more than three million people....
The Hoo-Hoo House was built by the Hoo-Hoo, a lumberman's fraternity, for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (A-Y-P) Exposition in Seattle in 1909. The exposition took place between June 1 and October 16, 1909,...
Stella Alexander was a woman ahead of her time. She broke into the previously exclusive boy's club of Issaquah politics when she was elected to the town council in 1927, and in 1932 was elected to a t...
In the twentieth century there were several resorts east of Lake Sammamish (located in eastern King County) in what is today (2006) the city of Sammamish. But none lasted as long or attracted as many ...
Eddie Allen was one of the foremost test pilots in the United States in the 1930s and early 1940s. He flew dozens of different aircraft, including more than 30 on their inaugural flights. He first wor...
Asotin County, formed out of Garfield County in 1883, is located in extreme southeastern Washington. In the 2000 Census, the county population was 20,551, and the population of Clarkston, its largest ...
Frances Axtell of Bellingham was one of the first two women elected to serve in the Washington state legislature, serving between 1913 and 1915. She promoted minimum wage and public safety legislation...
Jean Bartell Barber currently (2013) serves as vice chairman and treasurer of the Bartell Drug Company, which was founded in 1890 by her grandfather George Bartell Sr. (1868-1956). She spent the early...
Barker's Store was a small family-owned grocery located on the Sammamish Plateau in King County from the 1940s until the 1970s. This account, prepared by Sammamish Heritage Society historian Phil Doug...
The Bartell Candy Kitchen, located at 1906 Boren Avenue in Seattle, served many a sweet tooth for about 25 years during the early twentieth century. By the late 1920s, it churned out an average of a t...
George Bartell Sr. (1868-1956) opened his first drugstore in 1890 in Seattle, and grew his business from a small fledgling enterprise to a thriving chain of pharmacies that by the 1920s were scattered...
George D. Bartell is the third Bartell to manage the Bartell Drug Company, which was founded in 1890 by his grandfather, George Bartell Sr. (1868-1956). He first began meaningful work for the company ...
George Bartell started his pharmacy career as a teenager while living in Kansas. He relocated to Seattle in the summer of 1887, and in 1890 opened his first drugstore in the city. He took a breather i...
On March 14 and 15, 1848, a battle between Oregon Volunteers and members of the Palouse Tribe takes place in present-day Columbia County during the Cayuse War. The fighting continues for 30 hours. The...
On September 11, 1852, The Columbian, Washington's first newspaper, is published in Olympia. Washington is not yet a territory, much less a state, and Olympia is identified in the paper's front-page b...
On June 27, 1857, American and British commissioners of the International Boundary Commission meet on board the British ship HMS Satellite, anchored in Esquimalt Harbor on the southeast coast of Briti...
On December 26, 1866, a problem arises between American and British forces jointly occupying San Juan Island when the British commander asks the American commander to return an English deserter who is...
On July 21, 1869, former Secretary of State William H. Seward (1801-1872) starts a two-day visit to Puget Sound, during which he will tour more than half a dozen settlements, traveling on the steamer ...
On February 20, 1877, an enormous log jam on the Nooksack River near Ferndale (Whatcom County) is reported to have been cleared. The three-quarters-of-a-mile-long jam had represented a serious impedim...
On June 17, 1877, citizens of Colfax panic upon hearing news, which turns out to be a false rumor, of imminent Indian attack. The context is the start of the Nez Perce War, which broke out in Idaho on...
On September 29, 1877, Charles B. Hopkins (1855-1920) and Lucien E. Kellogg (1851-1930) publish the first issue of the Palouse Gazette in the small Eastern Washington town of Colfax. According to the ...
On February 24, 1881, the Birch Bay Post Office opens. Though it will survive only 10 years, the community itself will grow into a pleasant resort destination. Birch Bay is located in northwestern Wha...
In the fall of 1881 a smallpox epidemic strikes Columbia County. The epidemic rages from October through December, and becomes such a threat that the town of Dayton is quarantined for 10 days in Novem...
On July 26, 1882, in one of the most notorious murders in Columbia County history, freight agent Eli Cummins is robbed and murdered at the town of New York Bar. He is shot six times, struck with an ax...
On January 16, 1883, the steamer Josephine, enroute from Seattle to the Skagit River, explodes in Puget Sound near Mukilteo. Eight or nine people are killed, another five are injured, and about 15 esc...
On March 4, 1885, Dirty Dan Harris (1833?-1890) and friends raise an enormous United States flag on a 110-foot pole in front of his hotel in Fairhaven (Whatcom County). Daniel "Dirty Dan" Harris (1833...
On May 20, 1885, an arsonist lights a fire that destroys most of the business district of the town of Whatcom (Whatcom County). But all is not lost: Those fighting the fire save most of the town's l...