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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1398_fishers_Vancouver-WA.html
For centuries Indians used the trail that later became old Evergreen Highway. Where each creek entered the Columbia River the Indians made camp. In 1805 Lewis & Clark and their expedition camped on Government Island, a haven for waterfowl. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125M_ten-inch-shell-from-u-s-s-maine_Tacoma-WA.html
The Property ofJohn R. Thompson Camp Number OneUnited Spanish War VeteransTacoma
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM112O_the-historical-carbonado-saloon_Carbonado-WA.html
This structure was a close relative to the Carbon Hill Coal Company's brick store that sat directly across from it on Pershing Avenue. Right around 1880, this building held Carbonado's first Post Office. It's known that a barber shop once inhabite…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10GW_pickett-bridge_Bellingham-WA.html
First built in 1857 as a Military Bridge by Captain George E. Pickett
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1074_washington-states-oldest-brick-building_Bellingham-WA.html
Washington Territorial Court House1308 E Street Bellingham Washington Washington State's oldest brick building, built in 1858 with bricks made in Philadelphia and shipped around Cape Horn. Erected as a combination store, commission house and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZI3_the-saar-pioneer-cemetery_Kent-WA.html
The Saar Pioneer Cemetery is named for former King County Councilman Peter Saar, who in 1873 buried his wife on a small hill on their homestead. Since that time the cemetery has been known by many names. Kent Cemetery · Kent Methodist Ce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAQ_the-soviet-transpolar-flight-of-1937_Vancouver-WA.html
[Monument front]:Near this site at Pearson Airfield on June 20th, 1937, three Soviet aviators completed the first non-stop flight from the U.S.S.R. to the U.S.A. Command Pilot Valeri Chkalov, Co-Pilot Georgi Baidukov, and Navigator Alexander Be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAP_the-chkalov-transpolar-flight_Vancouver-WA.html
On June 20, 1937, the world's attention turned to Pearson Field when a Russian ANT-25 aircraft landed after making the first non-stop flight over the North Pole. The red and gray, single-engined aircraft "Stalin's Route" carried over 2,000 gall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY8L_mount-st-helens-you-are-edge-of-the-blast-zone_Toutle-WA.html
The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 triggered a huge landslide causing a powerful, laterally directed blast. A pyroclastic flow consisting of rock fragments, highly charged gas and super heated steam, devastated almost 150,000 acres o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX1R_wilkeson-eagles-building-100th-anniversary_Wilkeson-WA.html
On this Hundredth year of the Wilkeson Eagles Building we dedicate this plaque to all the Fraternal Orders that have called it home. We also want to recognize the past and present members of these groups that have helped preserve it in posterity. …
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