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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O3K_marking-the-end-of-the-oregon-trail-1844_Olympia-WA.html
(Marker title is inscription.)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O25_the-great-fire-of-1889_Spokane-WA.html
About 6 P.M. Sunday, Aug. 4, 1889 a fire started in a small restaurant six blocks south of here. It soon spread into an uncontrollable inferno which destroyed three-fourths of the business district. Miraculously only two lives were lost. Insuffici…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MLC_ken-griffey-jr_Everett-WA.html
Ken Griffey Jr.'s first professional hit, a home run, landed near this spot on June 17, 1987.
During the fourth inning of his second pro game, Griffey, age 17, playing for Bellingham against Everett in Northwest League action, muscled a 1-0 pit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ME2_hiram-m-chittenden-locks_Seattle-WA.html
When dedicated on July 4, 1917, the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks was the largest navigation facility in North America. During the dedication, the USS Roosevelt - flagship for Commodore Robert Peary's famous 1909 expedition to the North Pole - led a p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MDG_bell-street-bridge_Seattle-WA.html
The original Bell Street Bridge was a wooden trestle built in 1915 to provide access to Pier 66 from Elliott Avenue and the hillside above.
In the early 1900s, trestle bridges connected many of Seattle's piers on the central waterfront with the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LHH_the-earths-monumental-power_WA.html
This landscape is a monument to the Earth's power.
The incredible story began on March 20, 1980, when magma began rising into Mount St. Helens. The volcano's summit diverted the magma sideways, shoving the northern slope outward at a rate of fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LGD_working-with-nature-to-rebuild-an-ecosystem_WA.html
On May 18, 1980, the eastern edge of the searing lateral blast
rolled up and over ridges to your right. It tore through the Clearwater Valley, lifting just behind where you stand. The blast left a gray patchwork of fallen and standing dead trees,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L5R_more-than-he-bargained-for_WA.html
Gary Rosenquist wanted eruption pictures. On May 17, 1980, he and friends Joel and Linda Harvey, their 10-year-old son Jo-Jo, and William Dilley drove down from Tacoma. They camped here, at Bear Meadow, 11 miles northeast of Mount St. Helens.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L59_packwood_Naches-WA.html
William Packwood and James Longmire traveled across Naches Pass during the 1840s exploring for an easier route east. The trail they blazed is known today as Cowlitz Pass. The explorers discovered this area in 1854 and called it Sulphur Springs; th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L44_mud-on-the-move_Enumclaw-WA.html
Mud on the Move. Along with lava and ash, the
volcanically active Mount Rainier has contributed thick flows of mud from its sides and summit. One of the largest mudflows occurred about 5,800 years ago sending thick rivers of mud down the White Ri…