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Considered one of the Pacific Northwest's most influential landscape architects, Tom Berger was born in northern California on March 7, 1945. He moved with his parents and six siblings to Port Orchard...
Don Julian Bernier, known as Wenatchee’s godfather of rock and roll, helped introduced Central Washington to America’s newest pop-music genre in the late 1950s. Born in Winthrop in 1937, B...
During a career spanning about 45 years, sculptor Richard S. Beyer created more than 90 works of public art installed in cities and towns, primarily in Oregon and Washington state. In 1968 he received...
The town of Bridgeport, located in Douglas County, is nestled into a bend of the Columbia River, its rolling terrain surrounded by sage brush and Douglas firs. In 2020, the city had a population of 2,...
Peggy Corley was a leading figure in historic preservation in Seattle and Washington state. She was born in Seattle on April 5, 1931, attended Lincoln High School, graduated from Whitman College with ...
History professor and author, peace activist and humanitarian, Giovanni Costigan taught at the University of Washington for 41 years and was professor emeritus there for 15 more. Passionate about libe...
John Croce was the founder of Pacific Food Importers, a Seattle-area wholesale imported-food business, and its retail outlet, called Big John's PFI. The business, which began when Croce started sellin...
The first bicycle arrived in Washington Territory in 1879 on a steamer from San Francisco and within a decade, Washington, along with the rest of the nation, went bike-crazy. Innovative developments s...
Giuseppe "Joe" Desimone, an immigrant from Naples, settled in Seattle's South Park neighborhood, where he made some money farming and more money investing in real estate. Like many immigrant farmers f...
Journalist Edmund "Ed" Joseph DeValera Donohoe, whose column "Tilting the Windmill" ran weekly in the labor newspaper The Washington Teamster, was born in Seattle in 1918. The fifth of nine child...
Edison in Skagit County is nestled in a rural valley at the south end of the scenic Chuckanut Drive, about 75 miles north of Seattle and halfway between Bellingham and La Conner. Founded in 1869 and n...
From 1978 to 1993, Virgil Fassio was publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one of Seattle's two daily newspapers at the time. A first-generation Italian American from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ...
Fishtown was a community of artists, sculptors, and poets that sprang up along a bend of the Skagit River near La Conner. From 1968 to 1989, this contingent lived in primitive cabins on stilts built d...
For a good part of the last century, Gai's Northwest Bakeries was Seattle's largest bakery, supplying high-end restaurants and fast-food chains alike, and stocking area grocery stores with breads and ...
On February 28, 1883, Winlock becomes the first town in Lewis County to be incorporated. The date is prominently recorded on the town seal. Nearly a decade earlier, on December 27, 1873, the town had ...
On June 12, 1886, longshoremen working on ships docked on the Seattle waterfront walk off the job, leading to negotiations and then acceptance of the Stevedores, Longshoremen and Riggers Union of Seat...
On May 10, 1890, 50 residents of Kelso, Washington, vote in favor of incorporation; one individual is opposed. After the vote, the town clerk is instructed to prepare a certified record of the result ...
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 June 3, 1907, the town of White Salmon in Klickitat County incorporates as a city of the fourth class. The incorporation election is held March 30, 1907, after being advertised in three consecutive...
On March 21, 1910, the town of Bridgeport in Douglas County incorporates as a city of the fourth class. Settled in the 1860s and originally called Westfield, Bridgeport was renamed in 1892 for a group...
On February 11, 1911, the town of Omak, nestled in a curve on the Okanogan River with a population of around 520, incorporates. It is the largest town in Okanogan County and the sixth town in the coun...
On January 6, 1913, the town of Duvall, located on a hillside once belonging to the Duvall brothers, incorporates as a city of the fourth class. Francis Duvall had arrived in 1871 and built a riversid...
On January 17, 1916, the Skinner & Eddy Corporation begins construction of its first shipbuilding plant on the Seattle waterfront. Incorporated earlier in January, the company has been founded by ...
On December 8, 1924, the City of Yelm, Thurston County, is incorporated. A special election to decide the matter was held two days earlier on December 6. After the votes are tallied, the results are 7...
On August 12, 1926, Charles Enoch Peabody (1857-1926) dies in a Seattle hospital after surgery for appendicitis, leaving behind one of his eight sons, Alexander Marshall Peabody (1895-1980), to run th...
On July 9, 1934, 48-year-old Steve S. Watson, a special deputy sheriff for King County, is shot during a street brawl in downtown Seattle, the second fatality in a bitter waterfront fight. Although ea...
On November 15, 1937, Seattle's newest Oldsmobile dealer, Central Oldsmobile, Inc., opens its doors to the public at 1017 Olive Way. The dealership is owned by veteran car dealer John Riach (1895-1981...
On May 1, 1943, an admission tax on theaters and other entertainment venues goes into effect in Seattle. City officials estimate the tax will bring in about $350,000 during its first year. Known initi...