On June 1, 1813, near the mouth of the Palouse River, Astorian John Clarke (1781-1852) vows to hang a Palus Indian for stealing a goblet.
On March 16, 1987, judges at a wine tasting in New York award their top overall score to a 1983 Cabernet Sauvignon from Paul Thomas Winery in Bellevue. The winning wine, crafted by winemaker Brian Car...
In late summer or fall of 1853, United States Marshall J. Anderson has the responsibility of taking the first census in Washington Territory. He counts a population of 3,965, of which there are 1,682 ...
In 1857, a census of King County residents is taken. The population consists of 152 persons of European American descent including 86 adult males, 23 females age 18 and over, and 43 children of whom 1...
On January 4, 1860, the Territorial Auditor submitted to the Washington Territorial Legislative Assembly a report (dated December 31, 1859) on the numbers of white persons, horses, hogs, acres of pota...
The 8th federal census, taken in 1860, is the first to formally include Washington Territory (established in 1853), although the 1850 count had estimated the population north of the Columbia River by ...
In 1870, the 9th Decennial Census of the United States is the first census taken since the Civil War brought an end to the country's near-century of slavery. For the first time, all African Americans ...
The 10th Decennial Census, taken in 1880, illustrated the beginning of the phenomenal growth that first Washington Territory, and after November 1889, Washington state, would experience in the last de...
The 11th Decennial Census taken in June 1890 marks the first national count in which Washington is counted as a state, rather than a Territory. Washington has seen phenomenal growth in the previous 10...
The details of the 1900 federal census are in some respects different and less comprehensive than they have become in recent decades. There were fewer and less precise classifications for minorities. ...
The 13th Federal Census is taken in 1910 and reveals that the population of our state has more than doubled in the preceding decade, following a trend of booming growth extending back to Washington's ...
The 14th Census of the United States, conducted in 1920, verifies what was already obvious -- the headlong growth that had ballooned Washington state's population by more than 120 percent between 1900...
The 15th Census of the United States, conducted just months after the stock market crash of 1929, carries some evidence of the early effects of the Great Depression. The boom years are clearly over, t...
For the 16th federal census, conducted in 1940, the census bureau for the first time uses the science of statistical sampling. Certain detailed question are asked of a sampling of the population (spec...
The total population of Washington state in 1950 is 2,378,963, an increase of 642,772 (37.02 percent) from the 1940 count of 1,736,191. Population growth east of the Cascade Mountains is 179,624 (27.9...
In an effort to improve the quality and completeness of the data, the 18th federal census in 1960 is the first to mail to all households in the United States preliminary census forms to be filled out ...
The 1970 census shows that, for the first time since the first census of Washington Territory was taken in 1853, women outnumber men in the state, but barely. There is a continuation of the trend towa...
The Census Bureau continues to refine its methodology in the 1980 census, with nearly 95 percent of the U.S. population now counted using only a "mail-out/mail-back" questionnaire. Another major chang...
The total population of Washington state in 1990 is 4,866,692, an increase of 734,339 (17.77 percent) from the 1980 count of 4,132,353. Statistics from the 1990 federal census reveal that Washington c...
The 2000 U.S. Census reveals that every county in the state of Washington sees an increase in population since the previous census in 1990. Some cities and towns show dramatic population growth, while...
On February 10, 1980, 8-year-old Brian Ingram (b. 1969) is smoothing sand for a campfire on the Washington side of the Columbia River when he comes across three deteriorating packs of $20 bills still ...
On May 30, 1930, an impressive monument is dedicated at Fort Lewis honoring the army's 91st Division. The monument, featuring six statues and a 40-foot tall shaft, recalls the division's wartime contr...
On April 27, 2019, a Saturday afternoon, a tower crane being dismantled at a construction site in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood suddenly collapses, the latticed mast sections falling onto th...
On June 13, 2009, a new Burien Library officially opens as part of Burien Town Square, a public-private development intended to revitalize the city's downtown core. The library shares a three-story bu...