On November 1, 1892, Fire Chief Gardner Kellogg is dismissed from his job, sparking political troubles within the Seattle Fire Department for the next four years. Kellogg is rehired in 1896.
On November 8, 1892, Washington voters choose Republicans Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) as president and John H. McGraw (1850-1910) as governor, but Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) wins the presidency. R...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. Van Asselt Post Office opens on November 19, 1892. Ira A. Scott serves as postmaster. Van Asselt is located five...
On November 24, 1892, Seattle newspaper sellers organize the Seattle Newsboys' Union.
On November 24, 1892, three armed men wearing masks and long coats rob a dozen passengers aboard a Northern Pacific sleeper pulling out of Hot Springs, near the Green River in King County. They steal ...
On November 25, 1892, Hans J. Claussen (1861-1937), Charles E. Crane (ca. 1853-1918), and George E. Sackett (ca. 1843-1921), owners of the Seattle Automatic Refrigeration Company, incorporate the Diam...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On November 30, 1892, Vashon Island's Aquarium Post Office opens. Henry P. Fish serves as the first postmaster. Aqu...
On December 7, 1892, the Seventh Day Adventist Church opens Walla Walla College in College Place. In freezing temperature and in a building that is not quite finished, members of the college and the C...
In 1893, Dr. Frank Chappell (1846-1927) arrives in Granite Falls and sets up the first medical practice. A smallpox epidemic in Snohomish County logging camps exposes a pressing need for doctors. He ...
In 1893, Mary Thompson, owner of Minnehaha Saloon and one of Seattle's wealthiest black citizens, dies.
On January 6, 1893, amid cheers, shouts, and gunshots, workers drive the last spike into the Great Northern Railway track that opens transcontinental travel to Seattle. They lay the last rails at Madi...
On January 7, 1893, Wenatchee, located in Kittitas County (in 1899 changed to Chelan County), incorporates as a fourth-class city. The town has a population of 500 and incorporates after a vote of 10...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On January 13, 1893, Preston Post Office opens. John F. Hudson serves as the first postmaster. Preston is located 2...
In February 1893, Thomas S. Lippy, physical education director at the Young Men's Christian Association in Seattle, hangs two half-bushel baskets in the YMCA gym and begins teaching the rudiments of a...
On February 3, 1893, heavy snow and extreme cold grips Western Washington. In Seattle, the temperature at Woodland Park stands at five degrees below zero and the ice on Green Lake is six inches thick.
On February 5, 1893, residents of South Bend seize the records and seals of Pacific County and transfer the county seat to South Bend, as dictated by voters in the previous November's election. Oyster...
On February 21, 1893, an Act of the Washington State Legislature changes the name of Slaughter in south King County to Auburn. Originally intended to remember Lt. William A. Slaughter (d. 1855), who w...
On February 24, 1893, Washington Governor John McGraw (1850-1910) approves the charter for the state's third public teacher-training school, the New Whatcom Normal School. Over the years, the school w...
On February 24, 1893, the Monte Cristo Mining Company files a plat in Cleveland, Ohio, for the town of Monte Cristo, located in Snohomish County, Washington. The corporation, located on its mining c...
On February 28, 1893, the first freight train arrives in Seattle from the East. The train steams in on the Great Northern Railway's newly completed transcontinental tracks.
On March 1, 1893, the Port Townsend Post Office, Court and Customs House opens. The building, located at 1322 Washington Street, occupies a prominent location on the bluff overlooking Port Townsend an...
On March 7, 1893, Washington state enacts the nation's first law to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone, adult or child. The law makes it unlawful for any person to buy, sell, give away, or manufactu...
On April 4, 1893, Seattle Seminary opens its doors to 34 elementary school students. The Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church has organized the school to train and educate mis...
On April 15, 1893, work commences on the Old Lowden Ditch, one of the early irrigation projects in the Walla Walla Valley. This project takes water out of the Walla Walla River several miles upstream ...