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What is now Seattle has been inhabited since at least the end of the last glacial period (c. 8000 BCE —10,000 years ago). Archaeological excavations at what is now called West Point in Discovery Park, Magnolia confirm settlement within the current city for at least 4,000 years and probably much longer. [1]
History of Seattle; Before white settlement; 1851–1900; 1900–1940; ... Scandinavian women in Seattle, 1888 to 1900." Journal of Urban History 4.3 (1978): 275-290.
History of Seattle; Before white settlement; 1851–1900; 1900–1940; Since 1940; ... 1900 Population: 80,671. [2] Seattle General Hospital re-opened in a new building.
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.
The gold rush (see History of Seattle before 1900) led to massive immigration, with major arrivals of Japanese, Filipinos, immigrant Europeans, and European-Americans from back east. The arrival of Greeks and Sephardic Jews broadened the city's ethnic mix. Many of Seattle's neighborhoods got their start around this time.
History of Seattle before 1900; History of Seattle before white settlement; History of Seattle 1900–1940; History of Seattle (1940–present) 0–9.
Squire ended martial law and restored local civil order on February 23. Most troops were recalled, but two companies of troops were left in Seattle for another 4 months after the riot. [2] John McGraw, Washington sheriff during the anti-Chinese riot of Seattle in 1886; later a lawyer, second governor of Washington State, and a businessman.
The fragment of forest in Schmitz Park (1908–1912) is a living reminder of what much of Seattle looked like before the City of Seattle. [8] From the 1800s the Maritime Fur Trade opened access to European goods for rival northern tribes from Vancouver Island and the Georgia Strait).