News
This Week Then: Looking Back on Seattle’s Most Influential Union
Plus: The trial of the Seattle Seven
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Getting United On February 19, 1909, Local 174 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was chartered in Seattle. Many of its first members, then totaling around 400, drove teams of horses to deliver goods for local employers. As the auto age progressed, membership expanded to…
This Week Then: Celebrating Black History Month in Washington State
From activists to poets, many African Americans have played crucial roles in shaping Washington state history
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Celebrating Black History Every month is Black History Month at HistoryLink, and this week we note some of the many African Americans who have played crucial roles in shaping Washington state history. Contributions by the black community to Washington’s growth are legion. Their influence has…
This Week Then: Washington State’s Biggest Earthquakes
Plus: Looking back on the Battle of Seattle
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. A Tremor to Remember On January 26, 1700, a massive earthquake struck the Pacific Northwest and sent racing across the Pacific Ocean a tsunami that slammed into Japan. Scribes there recorded the wave, making it the earliest documented historical event in Western Washington. It is…
Starbucks Adopts Sustainability Agenda
The CEO of the global coffee company’s announces a five-point strategy to accomplish reducing its carbon emissions, water use and waste
Starbucks just ordered up an extra jolt of environmental expresso by announcing a multi-decade plan to become a “resource-positive” company, including setting targets for the reduction of carbon emissions, water use and waste by 2030. The plan, announced by Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson in a public letter to shareholders, customers and partners, is…
This Week Then: Long Beach Turns 98
Plus: The story behind King County's name
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Oceanside Bounty On January 18, 1922, Long Beach incorporated in Pacific County, more than a century after Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition traveled to the site on a well-trodden Indian trail and carved his name into the side of a tree….
This Week Then: The History of Skiing in the Cascade Mountains
Plus: Seattle's Fisherman's Terminal turns 106
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Out for a Ski This week Historylink takes to the slopes with a look at the history of skiing in the Cascade Mountains. The sport first became popular here in the 1910s, mainly due to the efforts of The Mountaineers, who opened a ski lodge…
Washington and Seattle Lead US in Minimum-wage Rates
In the year ahead, workers in more than half of U.S. states will see increases in the minimum wage
Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia will raise their minimum wage this year, most effective as of Jan. 1, but the highest minimum wage in the nation will still be claimed by Seattle, according to a recent analysis by payroll experts Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. The report says the highest minimum wage…
This Week Then: How Seattle Children’s Hospital Got Its Start
Plus: Six Washington cities celebrate birthdays
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Bighearted On January 4, 1907, Anna Clise and 23 of her affluent women friends came together to found the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital Association. Nine years earlier, Clise and her husband, James, had lost their 5-year-old son to inflammatory rheumatism. Seattle had no physicians or hospitals…
This Week Then: Seattle Seahawks Celebrate 45 Years
The team got off to a slow start, winning only two of 14 games their first year
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Cheer for the Home Team Forty-five years ago this week, on December 5, 1974, the Seattle Seahawks got their start — a half-century after the Anacortes Sea Hawks first took the name — when a group of Seattle businessmen led by the Nordstrom family was awarded an…
This Week Then: Seattle Turns 150
Plus: Remembering WTO
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. A City on the Go Happy birthday, Seattle! One hundred and fifty years ago this week, on December 2, 1869, the city was officially incorporated by the Washington Territorial Legislature — but getting there was no easy task. Eighteen years earlier, the Denny Party arrived near Alki Point on…
This Week Then: Famous Washington State Bigfoot Sightings
Plus: The mystery behind D.B. Cooper
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. In the Woods Fifty years ago this week, on November 24, 1969, Sasquatch tracks were discovered in Stevens County, renewing searches for the legendary but elusive cryptid. Sasquatch sightings in Washington date back to the 1800s, when fur trappers and loggers claimed to have seen…
This Week Then: Looking Back on Notable Floods in Western Washington
Plus: Remembering Douglas Q. Barnett, founder of Black Arts/West
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. The Rains Came November is here, and in Western Washington that usually means wet weather. On November 16, 1897, massive flooding in Snohomish County began destroying access to the town of Monte Cristo, eventually putting an end to the community’s mining boom. And on November…
Join The Must List
Don't miss a thing.
Get Seattle's best events,handpicked
and delivered to your inbox weekly.