| Seattle has a long interesting history, beginning thousands of years
ago. The Duwamish Indian tribe
has been settled in this area for an estimated 10,000 years. In
fact, Seattle is named after the chief of the Duwamish Indian Tribe,
Chief Seattle. |
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Seattle, engraving from "Harper's New Monthly Magazine"
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| White settlers began settling in what is now the Downtown Seattle
area in the early 1850's. Originally they tried to settle in the
Alki Point area, but the protection from weather was better in Elliot
Bay, so Arthur Denny moved his camp. Henry Yesler brought the
first steam sawmill to the downtown area and Seattle began to dominate
the lumber industry. |
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Seattle waterfront, 1869
Photo by George Robinson, Courtesy British
Columbia Provincial Archives |
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In the
afternoon of June 6, 1889, an overturned glue pot in John Bachs carpentry shop started the most destructive fire in the history of
Seattle. Since the majority of the downtown area was built out of
wood, the fire spread rapidly. Over 58 city blocks burned.
Over 5,000 jobs were lost, but the fire did not claim any lives.
Seattle rebuilt rapidly and within a year the city had grown from 20,000
to 40,000 inhabitants.
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Start of the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889, looking south on 1st
Ave. near Madison St. |
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| When the city
rebuilt it was decided to build one to two stories higher
than the
original grade, since Pioneer square was at the tide line and
flooded
often. For some time the area that was below grade was
used for
stores and access via ladders. This didn't prove to be very
reasonable and finally the merchants gave up on that idea. The
area
below ground then began to be used by the homeless. It is now
a
major tourist attraction in Downtown Seattle. |
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Seattle Underground, Seattle, Washington. A former meat
market. The concrete floor was originally at the level of the wooden
platform on the left, but sunk over the decades due to the use of
sawdust landfill.
Digital photo by User:Postdlf taken January 3, 2005. |
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Prospective miners boarded ships for
Alaska at Seattle's Waterfront |
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World War Two
and then the advent of Jet Aircraft made Boeing one of the largest
aircraft companies in the world. For many years they have been the
major employer in the Seattle area.
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Boeing's first aircraft was the Boeing B &
W named after it's initial designers, William Boeing and Navy Lt. Conrad
Westervelt. The first one was completed in 1916 and was rejected
by the US Navy, so Boeing sold it to the New Zealand Flying School. |
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