Seattle was incorporated in Before long, the settlement became the largest city in Washington. Its dominance was assured when the Northern Pacific Railroad chose Seattle over Tacoma as its western terminus. The discovery of gold, first on the Fraser River and later in the Yukon , sparked gold rushes from which Seattle prospered indirectly as a principal location for outfitting the miners. Like many cities during the era, the town was subject to a huge fire on June 6, Black when he tipped a hot glue pot over a gasoline fire, which destroyed nearly the entire business district.
The town was quickly rebuilt and grew from a population of 25, to 40,, owing to newly available construction jobs. Seattle is quite hilly, but in years past it was hillier yet. As the city expanded in the late 19th century, hills posed serious obstacles to its growth.
The response was a series of regrades, from which massive amounts of earth were washed away by water under high pressure. The most notable was the Denny Regrade to the north of downtown that continued for much of the first three decades of the 20th century. Other projects were conducted to the south.
After the war, many were unable to recover their homes and businesses. In , Seattle City Council passed Ordinance providing reparations to city employees of Japanese ancestry who lost their jobs during that period. The war's end, however, brought an economic slump to the area that persisted until the middle s.
When Boeing successfully introduced the commercial jet airliner in the late s, it heralded another burst of municipal optimism. In Seattle sponsored a full-fledged world's fair, the futuristic Century 21 Exposition. The fair left the city a permanent legacy in the Seattle Center and its complex of performance, sports, and entertainment halls, as well as the Pacific Science Center, the Monorail, and the Space Needle.
Explore the City's role in the fair here. Seattle's African American population increased dramatically between and , making the community the city's largest minority group. As Blacks moved north and west during and after World War II in search of employment, their numbers overtook those of Asian groups - the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos - which together historically formed Seattle's largest minority population.
All of the city's minority groups experienced some form of discrimination, including geographic segregation, employment inequity, and housing discrimination. Until , it was legal to discriminate against minorities in Seattle when renting apartments or selling real estate. Learn more about the struggle to pass this anti-discrimination legislation here.
After Century 21, the city population remained around the half-million mark in the second half of the 20 th century, while suburban areas grew explosively. The Boeing Company suffered a slump in the early s that severely depressed the local economy for a time. The political strength of Washington Senators Warren G. Magnuson and Henry Jackson in the postwar decades greatly contributed to growth at such research institutions as the University of Washington, and in defense related activities.
Seattle has also enjoyed an expanded air and sea trade with Asia, Alaska, and the North Pacific. Boeing headquarters relocated to Chicago in but companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Amazon, and Google began to have a bigger impact on the city's economy and drove a sharp increase in population in the early 21 st century.
Seattle has always exhibited a spirit of optimism, enterprise, and self-promotion. At one time this was institutionalized as "the Seattle Spirit," a movement that enabled the city literally to move mountains by washing down high hills to improve building sites, to connect Lake Washington and Puget Sound with locks and a canal, and to build the world's largest man-made island at the mouth of the Duwamish River.
This spirit can be credited with accomplishments like the Forward Thrust program of the s, which built numerous parks throughout the city, including Freeway Park that spans the I-5 freeway with waterfalls and hanging gardens. A building for the main branch of the Seattle Public Library designed by Rem Koolhaas, a new "green" City Hall, and a tunnel through downtown along with the deconstruction of the Alaskan Way Viaduct and a reimagining of the central waterfront bring Seattle into the 21st century.
Modern Seattle has both strengths and challenges. The city is proud of its arts and cultural institutions, its many live theaters, and its professional and collegiate sports. It is proud of its parks, of Pioneer Square and the Pike Place Market, and, above all, of the beauty of its surroundings. Meanwhile, the city's growth has led to increased income inequality and a dearth of affordable housing for its working population, while endemic issues of racism, social injustice, and a warming planet continue to inspire demands for change.
SMA research room now open by appointment only with limited capacity Email archives seattle. Seattle Municipal Archives. It lists the Denny Party, using the term "and wife" in lieu of naming the women.
The members of the Denny party were:. They marked claims from present-day Pioneer Square to Belltown on February 15, Most of the Denny Party had relocated to the new settlement by mid-April Charles Terry and John Low remained at the original landing spot, which they dubbed "New York" after Terry's hometown.
The new village was called "Dewamps" or "Duwamps" until late , when a new resident and its first merchant, Dr. David S. The earliest printed use of the name was in an advertisement for Maynard's store, "Seattle Exchange," which appeared in the October 30, edition of the Columbian. By then Henry Yesler ca.
With the filing of the first plats for the "Town of Seattle" on May 23, , the new name became official. Clarence B. Bagley, History of Seattle Chicago: S.
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