In order to make this timeline useful for all possible biographical subjects, we need to think broadly and creatively about what counts as an important “event” in the history of Seattle. What kinds of events can be labeled with a specific date? What kinds of events get recorded? What kinds of events get left out—and why? How do the events and people who are left out continue to haunt the city and its history? How can we represent these invisible events in our timeline?
Your job is to provide data for our timeline as COMMENTS on this posting. Organize your events chronologically. For each timeline entry, provide:
1) the date. If your event can't be tied to a specific date, give it a range, like late 1880s, or 1800-1830, or circa 1900.
2) a brief explanation of the event. What happened?
3) source information. Use the same MLA format that you are using in your reading log.
Please also post COMMENTS about timeline-related issues and problems, in response to the questions above, for example.
Timeline due: 2/22/08.
17 comments:
November 1851--arrival of the "Denny party" at Alki Point. Source: film Alki: Birthplace of Seattle, dir. B. J. Bullert.
Some links y'all might find of interest to the timeline/biography projects.
http://seattle-daily-photo.blogspot.com/2008/01/founders.html
http://tinyurl.com/2et7bc
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/seattle_history/articles/tour.html
http://tinyurl.com/yqx22c
1866 - Chief Seattle dies. - Chief Seattle, Dir. BJ Bullert 2000
Nov. 13, 1851 - Denny party arrives. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle
June 6, 1889 - Great Seattle fire - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seattle_Fire
1886 - Anti Chinese mobs drive Chinese workers from Seattle resulting in riot and death.
- MOHAI museum
1889 - Washington territory achieves statehood - MOHAI Museum
1888 - The Seattle, Lakeshore and eastern railroad reaches Issaquah
- MOHAI Museum
January 26, 1856 natives attacked the Seattle Settlement
April 4, 1884 15 Seattle Women founded The Ladies Relief Society to address "the number of needy and suffering cases within the limits of the city." This eventually resulted in the founding of Seattle Children's Home, still in operation today
1886- Seattle got its first YMCA gymnasium
Source: web article; History of Seattle before 1900
January 14, 1865-Seattle was incorporated as a town. Source:Wikipedia Article: Early History of Seattle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisotry_of_seattle)
1896-Gold was discovered in Klondike region of Canada.
Source:Wikipedia Article: Early History of Seattle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisotry_of_seattle)
1890- the total population in Seattle was 42,837.
Source: Course Reader; Chp.3 of Hard Drive to the Klondike, by: Lisa Mighetto and MArcia Montgomery
1) 1893; Great Northern Railway completed
2) 1897; City Council increased police force by 40%
3) 1897-1898; Seattle's fleet tripled in size
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Sources:
1) Hard Drive to the Klondike- Meghetto and Montgomery
Page 44
2) Hard Drive to the Klondike- Meghetto and Montgomery
Page 53
3) Hard Drive to the Klondike- Meghetto and Montgomery
Page 45
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1889: the city contracted with the Pacific Bridge Company to construct the headworks, dam, and pipeline. -Mighetto & Montgomery. "Hard Drive To The Klondike." Urban Adaptation Course Reader. Chapter 4, pg 75.
1902: voters decided in favor of the city power plant. -Mighetto & Montgomery. "Hard Drive To The Klondike." Urban Adaptation Course Reader. Chapter 4, pg 76.
1910: Conress authorized construction of the Lake Washington Canal connecting Lake Washington and Lake Union to Puget Sound. -Mighetto & Montgomery. "Hard Drive To The Klondike." Urban Adaptation Course Reader. Chapter 4, pg 76.
1865- Seattle officially incorporated
1865- Ordinance No. 5 passed
1864- Importation of 11 unmarried women to Seattle from Lowell, Massachusetts, by Mercer
1866- second installment of 34 "Mercer Girls"
Source:(for all three dates)Thrush, "Seattle Illahee" p.56
Laurel's timeline events:
1886- first graduates of seattle highschool
1892- built 3500 new buildings and seattle was reborn, the fire started in the Pontius building
1884- Seattles ladies relief society is founded and opens an orphanage the following year
All are from the museum Mohai
Noah Greene said...
In april and may of 1900, over 8,000 miners gold seekers past through seattle on their way to Nome. – Pgt. 58 - (CR) "Hard Drive to the Klondyke" - Lisa Mighetto and Marcia Montgomery
In 1910 – Congress authorized construction of the Lake Washington Canal connecting Lake Washington and Lake Union to the Puget Sound. Pg. 78 – (CR) "Hard Drive to the Klondyke" - Lisa Mighetto and Marcia Montgomery
Electric rail lines connected seattle to comunties to the north and south sides of the city. An interurban train ran between seattle and Tacoma, and the completion in 1900 of a line from seattle to everette futher opened opportunities for growth. Pg 70 (CR) - "Hard Drive to the Klondyke" - Lisa Mighetto and Marcia Montgomery
jon.rafael said...
June 6th 1889 - Great Seattle fire - Mohai
1889 - Washington becomes a state - Mohai
1903 - Cooper and Levy sell out and sell their business to the Bon Marche.
February 6, 2008 5:54 PM
1893 - Great northern completes railroad line from st. Paul to Seattle.
1894 - Coxeys army marches. Protestors concerned about unemployment march at capital. Jack London is a participant.
October, 1852- Henry Yesler arrives in the Puget Sound area with plans and financial backing for a steam sawmill.
Source: Speidel, "Sons of the Profits". p.60
CR Page 41: "By the late 1890's Seattle had become the financial center of the Pacific Northwest."
The Denny Regrade was started in 1898.
On January 6, 1899 the first phase of the massive Denny Regrade was completed.
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=708
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