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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPPT_roslyn-coal-mining_Roslyn-WA.html
In 1886, Northern Pacific Railroad mining engineers located large seams of coal and the town of Roslyn was founded.Coal mining, though dirty and dangerous work, attracted large numbers of immigrants to Roslyn - Serbians, Croatians, Poles, Italians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMODT_winthrop_Winthrop-WA.html
Here at the forks of the rushing Methow, Boston-bred Guy Waring founded Winthrop in 1891. Trappers, prospectors and homesteaders tramped into his frontier store. In '95 Colonel Thomas Hart came through to carve a narrow-gauge wagon road across the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN3I_fort-walla-walla_Touchet-WA.html
To the west, at the junction of the Walla Walla and Columbia Rivers, is the site of a trading post built in 1818.Fort Walla Walla was a vital link in the region's fur trade, and helped open up the Northwest to the white man. From this post traders…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN2J_ainsworth_Pasco-WA.html
One of the most colorful of the early Northwest railroad towns once existed near junction of the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Ainsworth was founded, 1879, when the railroad bridge was building over the Snake River.In its heyday it was a wild, lusty …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN1F_sam-hill-country_Goldendale-WA.html
In 1908 Samuel Hill (1857-1931) bought 7,000 acres on these slopes. He planned a Quaker farming colony, surveyed a 34-block tounsite and built a church, hotel, store, offices, garage and shops. His engineers built ten miles of experimental roads; …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMINL_military-road_Lakewood-WA.html
Side A1852Congress appropriated $20,000 for a military road from Fort Steilacoom to Fort Walla Walla. The road was made passable 1885.
Side BSupplementing the appropriation made by congress citizens helped build the military road through the Na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMINK_two-story-log-house_Steilacoom-WA.html
First School Session North of Columbia (River) -1854Refuge During Indian War 1855-56Occupied by families of Rev. J.F. Devore 1853Abram Woolery 1854Sherwood Bonney 1854-1856
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMINI_western-state-hospital-historical-cemetery-1876-1953_Lakewood-WA.html
Over 3,200 psychiatric patients from Western State Hospital were buried here from 1876 to 1953. Since then, burial has been elsewhere. The graves are marked with numbers for privacy reasons and the stigma of mental illness. These people worked on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIM4_ballard-avenue-landmark-district-historic-marker-project_Seattle-WA.html
The Ballard Avenue Landmark District holds a significant place in Seattle history. The uniquely-preserved state of Ballard Avenue provides visitors with a window into the heyday of Ballard's industrial and commercial era.
The City of Ballard wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIHN_ballard-avenue-historic-district-ballard-city-hall-bell_Seattle-WA.html
Multiple markers on and near the Ballard Centennial Bell identify the Ballard Avenue Historic District.Marker 1:Be it remembered that at this place on the eleventh day of April, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Six, the Ballard Avenue Landmark Distric…