Keyword(s): Karen L. Johnson
Resembling a long rope frayed at each end, the Oregon Trail stretched across much of nineteenth century North America, linking the populated East Coast with the remote western edge of the continent. A...
On July 4, 1853, the first U.S. flag made in Washington Territory is raised near Cowlitz Landing. Washington Territory had been created by U.S. President Millard Fillmore on March 2, 1853, and when ne...
On September 8, 1864, Governor William Pickering (1798-1873) sends the first official telegram from Washington Territory. The telegraph line from south of the Columbia River has just reached Olympia. ...
On September 14, 1927, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh in his plane Spirit of St. Louis flies over the Capitol Dome in Olympia. Lindbergh is on a cross-country trip to promote the U.S. Air M...
In August 1939, photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) visits Washington to document the lives of migrant farmworkers. Known as a humanitarian, artist, and one of the preeminent and pioneering d...