On May 24, 1890, teams from Spokane Falls and from Seattle play Seattle's first professional baseball game at a new diamond at the end of Madison Street in Madison Park. Approximately 1,200 people "co...
On May 28, 1890, the City of Kent is incorporated in south King County. Although always known as Kent, the area had also been referred to as Titusville after early settler James H. Titus. Seattle pion...
The 11th Decennial Census taken in June 1890 marks the first national count in which Washington is counted as a state, rather than a Territory. Washington has seen phenomenal growth in the previous 10...
On June 4, 1890, Seattle voters, by a nearly unanimous vote, approve the purchase of the Spring Hill Water Company and establish a public water system. The privately owned Spring Hill Water Company st...
On June 7, 1890, Colville, the county seat of Stevens County, is incorporated as a fourth-class town under the laws of the state of Washington. This is the second attempt at incorporation. The first, ...
On June 12, 1890, the Spokane County Board of Commissioners officially certifies the incorporation of the town of Medical Lake. In a town election on June 7, 1890, a "majority of the votes cast were i...
In June 1890 George Bartell Sr. (1868-1956) purchases his first drugstore in Seattle. By the 1920s he will have grown his business from a small fledgling enterprise to a thriving chain of pharmacies s...
On June 19, 1890, African American families from Seattle and Tacoma gather in Kent to celebrate "Juneteenth" for the first time. "Juneteenth" celebrates the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the Unite...
On June 20, 1890, Castle Rock's incorporation as a town of the fourth class takes effect when a certified copy of the county commissioners' order incorporating the town is filed with the Washington Se...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On June 23, 1890, Veazie Post Office opens. John Russell is the first postmaster. Veazie is located in southeastern...
On June 26, 1890, residents of Snohomish, the small settlement on the Snohomish River that is then the county seat of Snohomish County, vote 360 to 21 in favor of incorporating as a city of the third ...
On June 27, 1890, by a vote of 87-25, voters approve the incorporation of Mount Vernon as a fourth-class city. The path has not been easy, and two attempts the previous year are rejected by a Territor...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On June 30, 1890, Kangley Post Office opens. John Peterson Jr. is the first postmaster. On October 20, 1898, it ...
In the summer of 1890, Roman Catholic Sisters of Our Lady of the Good Shepherd from St. Paul, Minnesota, open the House of the Good Shepherd as a home for children and "unfortunate women." Sister Mary...
In July 1890, the Northern Lights Lodge, No. l of the Colored Knights of Pythias is chartered in Seattle.
On July 2, 1890, the Board of County Commissioners of Asotin County files with the Washington Secretary of State its declaration that Asotin is reincorporated as a municipal corporation of the fourth ...
On July 4, 1890, local residents begin settling illegally on a federal reserve that occupies much of the land that will soon become downtown Port Angeles. The 3,520-acre reservation has been largely o...
On July 14, 1890, Seattle becomes the first city in Washington to use the Australian Ballot System for elections. This requires voters to personally appear at the polls to cast their ballots. The most...
On July 14, 1890, voters elect Republican Harry White as Mayor of the City of Seattle. He is the last mayor elected under the city charter adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1869 and the first ...
On July 16, 1890, Kalama incorporates as a fourth-class town; William Hite Imus (1862-1950) is elected mayor. The town on the Columbia River in Southwest Washington had first incorporated on November ...
On July 17, 1890, Ritzville incorporates as a fourth-class city. The vote to incorporate was held a few days earlier, on July 12, and passed 30 to 7. In the same vote, R. J. Neergaard is elected mayor...
In 1890, the Woodland Park Railway street car line starts running from Fremont to Guy Phinney's residence, subdivision, and private park called Woodland.
On August 10, 1890, journalist, schoolteacher and Yelm resident Fay Fuller (1869-1958) becomes the first woman known to reach the summit of Mount Rainier. Two months before her 21st birthday, and dres...
On August 14, 1890, Edmonds, Washington, becomes incorporated when Washington Secretary of State Allen Weir files the order creating it as a fourth-class town. The process leading toward this result ...