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Skid Road: an Informal Portrait of Seattle (revised and updated, first illustrated ed.). Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-95846-4. "The people and their land". Puget Sound Native Art and Culture. Seattle Art Museum. 2003-07-04 dead link ] Phelps, Myra L. (1978). Public works in Seattle. Seattle: Seattle ...
The Seattle Times. Seattle History : 150 Years: Seattle By and By. p. 1. Archived from the original on 7 May 2006 and Ibid (27 May 2001). "The settlers saw trees, endless trees. The natives saw the spaces between the trees". The Seattle Times. Seattle History : 150 Years: Seattle By and By. p. 2.
1860 (United States) New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860. 800 women operatives and 4,000 workmen marched during a shoemaker's strike in Lynn, Massachusetts. 1863 (United States) The first railroad labor union, The Brotherhood of the Footboard (later renamed the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) is formed in Marshall, Michigan. [6]
Seattle today is physically similar to the Seattle of the 1960s, while the demographics have begun to shift over time. It is still filled with single-family households, with whites making up 64.9% of the population (down from a high of 91.6% in 1960), Asians 16.3%, two or more races 8.8%, Black 6.8%, and Hispanic 7.2%.
City expands, annexing Atlantic City, Ballard, Columbia, Dunlap, Rainier Beach, Ravenna, South-East Seattle, South Park, and West Seattle. [2] Pike Place Market opens. [17] St. James Cathedral built. 1908 The Great White Fleet visits Seattle and Puget Sound area. [22] 1909 June 1: Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition opens.
The Mercer Girls or Mercer Maids were women who chose to move from the east coast of the United States to the Seattle area in the 1860s at the invitation of Asa Mercer. Mercer, an American who lived in Seattle , wanted to "import" women to the Pacific Northwest to balance the gender ratio. [ 1 ]
In this period, the United States rapidly expanded economically from an agrarian nation into an industrial power. Industrialization in America involved two important developments. First, transportation was expanded. Second, improvements were made to industrial processes such as the use of interchangeable parts and railroads to ship goods more ...
"Constructing an Industrial Divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the Federal Government, 1876-1971" Business History Review 76 (Winter 2002) pp: 705-732. Honsowetz, Aaron Michael. "1866 Post Roads Act: Federal Preemption and Deregulation of the United States Telegraph Industry" (PhD dissertation, George Mason University; ProQuest Dissertations ...