In 1871, John Alden Shoudy (1842-1901) and Mary Ellen Shoudy (1846-1921) purchase the successful trading post known as Robber's Roost from founders Andrew Jackson Splawn and Ben Burch. In time the are...
In the summer of 1871, William Moore (1833-1913) and other farmers commission work to begin building a major portion of a three-mile dike from Stanwood (northeastern Snohomish County) north toward Mil...
On July 10, 1871, Seattle voters elect John T. Jordan, stone mason, as the city's mayor.
For 10 days starting July 21, 1871, Philo Remington (1816-1889) and his associate Philo Osgood purchase from 13 different owners more than $50,000 in Seattle and King County real estate. Remington, fr...
On September 1, 1871, the United States establishes a steamboat inspection office in Seattle. The office inspects steamboat engine boilers and the hulls of boats plying Puget Sound as well as rivers a...
In September 1871, the Woodin family traverses Lake Washington aboard a scow loaded with their belongings to reach land they have claimed on the Squak Slough (later known as the Sammamish River) at th...
On October 19, 1871, Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), national women's rights leader and vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, becomes the first woman to address the Washington Terri...
On October 21, 1871, a Mr. Kennedy (probably John Kennedy, age 46) opens a roller skating rink at the Pavilion, located in Seattle at the southeast corner of Front Street (later 1st Avenue) and Cherry...
By 1871, Seattle has become the distribution center of the central Puget Sound area and of the Yakima Valley. It supplies goods and services from Snohomish up the Duwamish Valley and west to the lumbe...
On December 17, 1871, it starts to snow and continues on and off for at least three weeks. During that time there are at least three "disagreeable visitation[s]" of snowfall and apparently for nearly ...
In 1872, the coalmines at Newcastle (King County) produce 75 to 100 tons of coal per day. Sixty men work at the mines and 15 men work at transporting coal from Newcastle to the Pike Street coal bunker...
On February 22, 1872, a letter from an irate citizen appears in the The Weekly Intelligencer concerning "depredations of a gang of worthless boys" who, "not content with making day and night hideous w...