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1913 - The Washington state parks system is established. [14] 1916 - July 15: The Boeing Company is established in the state as Pacific Aero Products Company. 1922 - J Harlen Bretz first proposes his Missoula floods hypothesis, which he termed Spokane floods. 1923 - March 5: The Washington state flag is adopted. It would receive minor revisions ...
Embossed golden yellow serial on green plate with border line; "STATE OF WASHINGTON" at bottom "1889-GOLDEN JUBILEE-1939" at top A-123-456 AB-1234 County-coded (A or AB) Commemorated Washington's 50 years of statehood. 1940 Embossed green serial on white plate with border line; "WASHINGTON 1940" at bottom none: A-123-456 AB-1234 County-coded (A ...
Archaeological evidence shows that the Pacific Northwest was one of the first populated areas in North America. Both animal and human bones dating back to 13,000 years old have been found across Washington and evidence of human habitation in the Olympic Peninsula dates back to approximately 9,000 BCE, 3,000 to 5,000 years after massive flooding of the Columbia River which carved the Columbia ...
Washington was named after President George Washington by an act of the United States Congress during the creation of Washington Territory in 1853; the territory was to be named "Columbia", for the Columbia River and the Columbia District, but Kentucky representative Richard H. Stanton found the name too similar to the District of Columbia (the national capital, itself containing the city of ...
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
Agitation in favor of self-government developed in the regions of the Oregon Territory north of the Columbia River in 1851–1852. [3] A group of prominent settlers from the Cowlitz and Puget Sound regions met on November 25, 1852, at the "Monticello Convention" in present-day Longview, to draft a petition to the United States Congress calling for a separate territory north of the Columbia River.
It added that the state's Concord quarry produces about 25,000 tons of granite each year. ... the "Sooner State," dates back to the 1800s. ... the Washington State Standard reported that the state ...
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