Keyword(s): Charles P. LeWarne
Missouri T. B. Hanna, often known as "Mrs. M. T. B. Hanna," was born in Texas and grew up in Arkansas. She moved with her husband and three children to Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, in 1882 but...
Alice U. Kerr was elected mayor of Edmonds in December 1924, one of the first women mayors in Washington. She served a single two-year term (1925-1927) occupied with issues of a small, growing city, ...
The Love Israel Family, the largest and most prominent communal group in the Washington to emerge during the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, was located in Seattle from 1968 to 1984 and in rural Snoho...
Stevens Memorial Hospital in Edmonds was first dedicated January 26, 1964, the culmination of a private campaign, later turned public, to place a full-service hospital in the growing communities of Ed...
On February 10, 1910, two rival Edmonds newspapers, the Review published for five years by Missouri T. B. Hanna, and the Tribune, published since 1908 by W. H. Shumacher, merge under Shumacher's Trib...
On December 2, 1924, Alice U. Kerr (1858-1949) is elected mayor of Edmonds on December 2, 1924. After two recounts Kerr, a write-in candidate, defeats incumbent Mayor Matt Engels by a margin of 161 t...
On October 28, 1933, the townspeople of Indianola vote to create a port district at the small seaside village that faces Port Madison Bay in Kitsap County. The main reason for creating a port is to ma...
On March 19, 1951, the Board of Kitsap County Commissioners formally establishes the Port of Poulsbo. Coincidentally, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Pacific Coast Cod...
On February 18, 1958, voters in the small, upscale community of Woodway in Snohomish County go to a private home to vote on incorporating as a fourth-class town. The measure passes with 99 in favor an...
On January 26, 1984, the Love Israel Family, Washington's largest and best-known countercultural commune, gives up all its Seattle properties in an out-of-court settlement. Founded on Queen Anne Hill ...