In 1895, the game of golf arrives in Seattle when 12 prominent citizens play a game in the Wallingford (sometimes claimed as Fremont) District. The five short holes are laid out along what would later...
On August 13, 1895, Mark Twain (1835-1910) gives a 90-minute solo performance to an audience of 1,200 at the Seattle Theater, located in downtown Seattle at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Cherry Street....
In the early hours of August 14, 1895, father and son Sam and Charles Vinson are lynched in Ellensburg by a mob of 50 people. Although some call for prudence, a crowd of 150 stands by and watches.
On August 14, 1895, Mark Twain (1835-1910) speaks to a nearly full house at Lighthouse Hall in New Whatcom (which will become part of Bellingham in 1903). Though not normally known for its enthusiasm ...
On August 22, 1895, the Washington State Supreme Court rules that the debt of a municipal corporation that is to be repaid exclusively with revenue derived from the project the debt finances does not ...
On September 18, 1895, St. Spiridon Orthodox Church holds its first service for Greek, Russian, and Serb immigrants. About half the congregation of 100 is native-born American. The celebrant is an iti...
On September 21, 1895, the newly opened Denny-Fuhrman School (later Seward Elementary and then TOPS) is included in a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article reporting the enrollment in all Seattle Public ...
On October 2, 1895, the USS Philadelphia, flagship of Rear Admiral Lester A. Beardslee (1836-1903), commander of the United States Navy Pacific Fleet, drops anchor in the deep, protected harbor at Por...
On November 2, 1895, the American Protective Association, an anti-catholic political organization, takes control of the Seattle School Board when three candidates acceptable to the order are elected, ...
On December 10, 1895, the Long Beach Hotel burns. It is located in Long Beach, southeast of where the Bolstad Street and Pacific Avenue intersection lies today (2011). Henry (1839-1924) and Nancy (184...
In 1896, citizens near present-day Jordan in Snohomish County build a suspension bridge over the South Fork of the Stillaguamish River. Its purpose is to connect the homesteads along the river to each...
On March 3, 1896, Seattle voters elect Republican Frank Dewitt Black (1854-1919) mayor of Seattle. Black, a well-regarded Seattle businessman with no particular interest in politics, agrees to run in ...
On April 6, 1896, the City Council appoints attorney and businessman William D. Wood (1858-1917) as Mayor of the City of Seattle to fill the unexpired term of Frank D. Black. In July 1897, Wood resign...
On May 1, 1896, local farm families celebrate their completion of the first irrigation ditch carrying Dungeness River water to Sequim Prairie. Located in eastern Clallam County in the rain shadow of ...
On May 6, 1896, 36-year-old suffragist Helga Estby (1860-1942) and her 18-year-old daughter Clara (1877-1950) begin an unescorted trek from their home in Mica Creek to New York City. Their walk is a ...
On May 31, 1896, Princess Angeline or Kikisoblu (1820?-1896), was the eldest daughter of siʔał (178?-1866), a member of the Suquamish tribe for whom Seattle is named, and a Duwamish woman named Ladali...
On July 28, 1896, Tacoma's Olof Olsson Bull (1852-1933) scales Mount Rainier and plays several solo songs -- including "Nearer, My God, To Thee" -- on his fiddle at the Columbia Crest summit. That fea...
On Monday, August 10, 1896, the first edition of The Seattle Times edited by its new co-owner, "Colonel" Alden J. Blethen (1845-1915), hits the streets. Blethen, a native of Maine, purchased what was ...
On August 22-23, 1896, the Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs is founded when 22 women's clubs respond to the invitation of Tacoma's Nesika and Aloha clubs to convene, write a constitution,...
On August 31, 1896, the Japanese steamship Miike Maru arrives in Elliott Bay at the port of Seattle. The Miike Maru is the first ship owned by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Steamship Company) to begi...
On November 3, 1896, a coalition of "Silver Republicans," Democrats, and Populists unseat Republicans in the general election. John R. Rogers (1838-1901) is elected governor and James Hamilton Lewis (...
On November 3, 1896, Davenport emerges as the winner in the protracted battle over which town will be county seat of Lincoln County. It is the third time in a dozen years that Lincoln County resident...
On November 5, 1896, the Cascades Locks and Canal opens on the Columbia River to allow steamboats to pass around four miles of rapids. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project takes nearly 20 years to...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On November 10, 1896, the Sallal Post Office opens. Ephraim S. Seymour is appointed postmaster. Sallal was located ...