Cub Scouts in Seattle had America’s very first Cub Scout camp. It was a Paul Bunyan camp, called Blue Ox camp, open from 1930 to…
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Published October 31, 2021
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Published April 25, 2021
Frank Smith and Sadie Tipps
Frank Smith represented the opportunity for Black people in Seattle at the start of the 1900s. He and his wife Sadie built their own home,…
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Published March 23, 2021
Ed Hagen pulled one over on you
Ed Hagen got away with the greatest crime: stealing history. Casual reading of Prohibition-era newspapers has led Seattle historians to narrowly remember him as the…
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Published February 27, 2021
Seattle’s Black families’ homes in 1909
A window into Seattle’s Black families’ homes, via the writings of Horace and Susie Revels Cayton, Booker T. Washington, and Harry Edwards.
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Published February 17, 2021
Rainier Grand Hotel, Seattle, start to finish
The Rainier-Grand Hotel stood over Seattle’s waterfront for four decades and served as Seattle’s premiere tourist hotel. This is the missing chronicle of the Rainier-Grand…
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Published February 3, 2020
Soule House, now and 1899
The photos are taken in Seattle on Broadway looking northeast to James. The archival photo is from University of Washington Special Collections, number SEA3080. In…
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Published November 17, 2019
Finding Mount Jennings
Mount Jennings was as close to a spite mound as you’ll get in Ballard, and had more spite than the mounds in Seattle. It sat…
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Published November 12, 2019
Mount Jennings, Ballard’s spite mound
Any historian would be satisfied with the simple anecdote of Jennings and his Jennings’ Addition street names. It is a relative spoil of humorous riches…
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Published November 8, 2019
Ballard streets named by A. B. Jennings
Here’s the story, expanded now, that made me start researching Arthur Jennings. It started with Ballard streets. Stick with me here. We’re almost at the…
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Published November 1, 2019
Jennings brothers in Ballard
While the Denny Hotel’s supervising architect kicked off the fourteen years it took to build in 1889 and 1890, the city of Ballard was created.…
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