On November 30, 1891, the City of Seattle adopts a plan to build a combined sewer system to handle both sewage and stormwater. The city has used cesspools and wooden-box sewers for sewage, but those m...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. The Ferndale Post Office (later Eagle Gorge) opens on March 2, 1891. Eagle Gorge is located in east King County,...
On December 9, 1891, the City Council appoints George W. Hall -- the president of the council -- as mayor of the City of Seattle. Hall fills the unexpired term of Mayor Harry White, who resigned under...
On December 14, 1891, the Broadway School in Everett opens its doors to its first 26 students. It is a new building in a city that is not yet formally incorporated, but growing fast, and Emma Sarepta ...
On December 16, 1891 Columbia City Post Office opens. Rebecca E. Comfort is the first postmaster. The post office name changes to Columbia on July 23, 1902. Columbia City is located four miles south o...
On December 21, 1891, the so-called "whaleback" freighter Charles W. Wetmore arrives to great fanfare in the budding town of Everett on Port Gardner Bay in Snohomish County. The design of the steel-hu...
In 1892, the hop louse invades the enormous and profitable hop fields of the Snoqualmie Valley in eastern King County. The female hop louse can produce a trillion descendents in one summer, and a phot...
In 1892, Seaborn J. Collins becomes the first African American elected to office in King County.
On January 1, 1892, at 4:26 p.m., lighthouse keeper Christian Zauner lights the five wicks of the Destruction Island lighthouse's first-order Fresnel lens for the first time. The lighthouse is located...
In 1892, a wood trestle is built from Seattle's Fremont neighborhood to the foot of Queen Anne Hill across a narrow canal dug in the 1880s to connect Lake Union with Salmon Bay (later part of the Lake...
In 1892, Masajiro Furuya founds the Furuya Company, which becomes the largest and most successful business in Seattle's Nihonmachi (Japantown), now called the International District. It is a one-stop,...
In 1892, Native Americans organize the Indian Shaker Church. Unrelated to the American Shakers (the United Society of Believers), the movement emerges at a time when tribal members are turning away fr...
The 1892 Annual Report of Seattle's Department of Engineering makes it clear that garbage, swill, and "night soil" from Seattle's business district is gathered into horse-drawn wagons and taken down t...
On January 5, 1892, a daring Everett News reporter rides a log down the 2,000-foot chute to E. D. Smith's sawmill in Lowell. The log accelerates rapidly as it descends and the ride is terrifying. Wh...
On January 13, 1892, the Agricultural College, Experiment Station, and School of Science of the State of Washington -- the descriptive if unwieldy name given to what eventually will become Washington ...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On February 16, 1892, the Durham post office opens. Dennis Dwyer is the first postmaster. Durham was a coal town lo...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On February 20, 1892, the Eddyville Post Office opens. Edward J. Curren is appointed postmaster. Eddyville was l...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On February 25, 1892, the Sheridan Post Office opens. Ross G. MacIntosh is appointed postmaster. Sheridan is lo...
In the spring of 1892, a massive drydock -- a floating structure from which water can be removed to build or repair ships -- begins operations at Dockton on Maury Island. The drydock establishes Dockt...
On March 7, 1892, Esther Levy (1839-1920) calls together 37 women to form the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society, Seattle's first Jewish welfare society. She and her daughter, Lizzie Cooper (d. 1915), a...
On March 8, 1892, Seattle voters elect Democrat James T. Ronald mayor by a wide margin. Ronald serves one two-year term, which he later describes as the most unhappy years of his life. Nevertheless, h...
On March 14, 1892, the South Seattle Post Office is established. The first postmaster is Guilford L. Burdic who serves until replaced by John C. Werner on February 2, 1899. On July 1, 1902, the United...
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On March 23, 1892, Birch Post Office opens. Arnold Keller is the first postmaster. Birch is located 30 miles sou...
On March 26, 1892, large-scale irrigation of the Yakima Valley commences when water gushes into the Sunnyside Canal for the first time. A throng of spectators are gathered at the canal's headgates aft...