Keyword(s): Hilary Pittenger
Prior to the building of reliable overland roads and railroads, river travel was the primary method of transporting goods and people in the White River Valley. The indigenous Coast Salish people used ...
From 1909 to 1970, the Briscoe Memorial School in Kent, Washington, operates as a Catholic orphanage and boarding school for boys around the Puget Sound region. The school becomes a regional landmark ...
The Auburn Yard, a repair and freight transfer facility located in Auburn at the western terminus of the Northern Pacific transcontinental rail line, fundamentally changed the small village of Auburn ...
On July 1, 1922, unionized workers at the Auburn Yard, a center of freight traffic and equipment maintenance for the Northern Pacific Railway on the West Coast, begin a seven-month strike that wi...
The Auburn Veterans' Day parade began in 1965 as a way to honor veterans and active duty soldiers of the Vietnam and Korean Wars along with the older veterans of World War I and World War II. With onl...
The ghost town of Lester was founded in 1891 as a railroad stop on the western side of Stampede Pass. It eventually grew into a small but prosperous railroad and logging town in the early twentieth ce...