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Telegraph (sternwheeler 1903)
''Telegraph'' was a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1903 in Everett, Washington. Except for the summer of 1905, from 1903 to 1912, ''Telegraph'' served in Puget Sound, running mainly on the route from Seattle, Washington, Seattle to Everett, and also from Seattle to Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma and Olympia, Washington. During the summer of 1905, ''Telegraph'' was transferred to Portland, Oregon to carry visitors arriving for the Lewis and Clark Exposition. ''Telegraph'' was nearly destroyed in 1912 when the large iron-hulled ocean-going steamer collided with Colman Dock, cutting completely through the dock from the south side, and then crushing ''Telegraph'' which had been tied up on the north side of the dock. ''Telegraph'' was raised, rebuilt, and renamed ''Olympian''. In 1916, ''Olympian'' was transferred to Portland, where it ran from Portland on several routes, including to The Dalles, Oregon, The Dalles and Astoria, Oregon. ''Olympian'' was a popular excursion vessel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puget Sound
Puget Sound ( ; ) is a complex estuary, estuarine system of interconnected Marine habitat, marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. As a part of the Salish Sea, the sound (geography), sound has one major and two minor connections to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which in turn connects to the open Pacific Ocean. The major connection is Admiralty Inlet; the minor connections are Deception Pass and the Swinomish Channel. Puget Sound extends approximately from Deception Pass in the north to Olympia, Washington, Olympia in the south. Its average depth is and its maximum depth, off Jefferson Point between Indianola, Washington, Indianola and Kingston, Washington, Kingston, is . The depth of the main basin, between the southern tip of Whidbey Island and Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma, is approximately . In 2009, the term Salish Sea was established by the United States Board on Geographic Names as the collective wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binford & Mort
Binford & Mort Publishing is a book publishing company located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1930, the company was previously known as Metropolitan Press and Binfords & Mort. At one time they were the largest book publisher in the Pacific Northwest. The privately owned company focuses on books from the Pacific Northwest, and has printed many important titles covering Oregon's history. History Maurice M. Binford was born in Indiana in 1878, but moved west in 1884 after his parents died.Corning, Howard M. (1989) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. pp. 28, 32. Peter A. Binford, also from Indiana, was born on March 23, 1876, in Crawfordsville in the west-central part of that state. Peter and Maurice moved to Klickitat County, Washington, in 1884 with their older sister Julia, who had married Frank Lee. Julia raised the two along with five other younger siblings. Peter later worked in the printing industry in Klickitat County for his brothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anacortes, Washington
Anacortes ( ) is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The name "Anacortes" is an adaptation of the name of Anne Curtis Bowman, who was the wife of early Fidalgo Island settler Amos Bowman.Historical Timeline " Anacortes History Museum '' July 10, 2006. Retrieved on August 14, 2007. Anacortes' population was 17,637 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included in the Mount Vernon, Washington, Mount Vernon-Anacortes Metropolitan Statistical Area. Anacortes is known for the Washington State Ferries dock and terminal serving Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, and San Juan Island. There is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Ad 1906 Astorian
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not. Ancient signalling systems, although sometimes quite extensive and sophisticated as in China, were generally not capable of transmitting arbitrary text messages. Possible messages were fixed and predetermined, so such systems are thus not true telegraphs. The earliest true telegraph put into widespread use was the Chappe telegraph, an optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe in the late 18th century. The system was used extensively in France, and European nations occupied by France, during the Napoleonic era. The electric telegraph started to replace the optical telegraph in the mid-19th century. It was first taken up in Britain in the form of the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, initially used mostly as an aid to railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tacoma Times
''The Tacoma Times'' was a newspaper published in Tacoma, Washington from 1903 to 1949. It was founded by E. W. Scripps, with editorial personnel taken from ''the Seattle Star''.About the Tacoma Times at '''', published no later than June 23, 2011 (date of earliest version found on Internet Archive); retrieved November 26, 2014 References External links Incomplete archive of ''the Tacoma Times'' at |
Maiden Name
When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries and cultures that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage. In some jurisdictions, changing names requires a legal process. When people marry or divorce, the legal aspects of changing names may be simplified or included, so that the new name is established as part of the legal process of marrying or divorcing. Traditionally, in the Anglophone West, women are far more likely to change their surnames upon marriage than men, but in some instances men may change their last names upon marriage as well, including same-sex couples. In this article, ''birth name'', ''family name'', ''surname'', ''married name'' and ''maiden name'' refer to patrilineal s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolver
A revolver is a repeating handgun with at least one barrel and a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold six cartridges before needing to be reloaded, revolvers are commonly called six shooters or sixguns. Due to their rotating cylinder mechanism, they may also be called wheel guns. Before firing, cocking the revolver's hammer partially rotates the cylinder, indexing one of the cylinder chambers into alignment with the barrel, allowing the bullet to be fired through the bore. By sequentially rotating through each chamber, the revolver allows the user to fire multiple times until having to reload the gun, unlike older single-shot firearms that had to be reloaded after each shot. The hammer cocking in nearly all revolvers is manually driven and can be cocked either by the user using the thumb to directly pull back the hammer (as in single-action), or via internal linkage relaying t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walla Walla, Washington
Walla Walla ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. It had a population of 34,060 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, estimated to have decreased to 33,339 as of 2023. The combined population of the city and its two suburbs, the town of College Place, Washington, College Place and unincorporated Walla Walla East, Washington, Walla Walla East, is about 45,000. Walla Walla is in the southeastern region of Washington, approximately four hours away from Portland, Oregon, and four and a half hours from Seattle. It is located only north of the Oregon border. History Native history and early settlement Walla Walla's history starts in 1806 when the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Lewis and Clark expedition encountered the Walla Walla people, Walawalałáma (Walla Walla people) near the mouth of Walla Walla River. Other inhabitants of the valley included the Cayuse people, Liksiyu (Cayuse), Umatilla people, Imatalamłáma (Umatil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alki Point
Alki Point (, ) is a neighborhood in western Seattle, Washington. It is a point jutting into Puget Sound, the westernmost landform in the city's West Seattle district. Alki is the peninsular neighborhood on Alki Point. Alki was the original settlement in what was to become the city of Seattle. It was part of the city of West Seattle from 1902 until that city's annexation by Seattle in 1907. The Alki neighborhood extends along the shore from the point, both southeast and northeast. To the northeast it continues past Alki Beach roughly to Duwamish Head, the northernmost point of West Seattle. Alki Point also marks the southern extent of Elliott Bay; a line drawn northwest to West Point marks the division between bay and sound. Etymology The name "Alki" is a Chinook Jargon word meaning "by and by" or "eventually". It is a shortened version of the original name, "New York Alki." The name "New York" may have been chosen because it was the state of origin of several of the settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seattle Star
''The Seattle Star'' was a daily newspaper that ran from February 25, 1899, to August 13, 1947. It was owned by E. W. Scripps and in 1920 was transferred to Scripps McRae League of Newspapers (later Scripps-Canfield League), after a falling-out within the Scripps family. The company, which eventually became Scripps League Newspapers, Inc., owned the paper until 1942, when it was sold to a group of local Seattle businessmen including Howard Parrish, its publisher. Soon after the sale, it reverted to its previous broadsheet format after having been a tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid for a short time. Of the three Seattle general circulation dailies (''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' and ''The Seattle Times'' being the other two), it was the smallest in circulation, although it had been the largest paper in the city around 1900. For most of its life the paper was known as the "working man's" or "working person's" paper. It was staunchly pro-labor, reflecting the values of E.W. Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duwamish Head
Duwamish Head () is the northernmost point in West Seattle, Washington, jutting into Elliott Bay. A large boulder covered with petroglyphs once lay on the beach. The Duwamish tribe was relocated to a reservation here in 1856, which at the time was referred to as Holderness Point. From 1907 to 1913 it was the site of an amusement park, Luna Park. Today, Alki Beach Park extends southwestward from Duwamish Head to Alki Point; the area at the head is sometimes called "Anchor Park" due to the anchor at the site. On June 19, 2020, two teens utilizing the app Randonautica reported finding a suitcase along the shoreline, emitting a foul odor. The Seattle Police Department was dispatched to the scene, and the contents of the suitcase were confirmed to be human remains. The two teens then uploaded videos of their discovery of the suitcase to the popular social media app TikTok TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong as Douyin (), is a social media and Short-form content, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flyer (steamboat)
''Flyer'' was an American steamboat that served from 1891 to 1929 on Puget Sound. From 1918 until the end of her service, she was officially known as the ''Washington''. The ''Flyer'' ran for millions of miles at high speed, more than any inland vessel in the world.Newell, Gordon R., ''Ships of the Inland Sea'', at 2, 40, 112-15, 155-56 Binford and Mort, Portland, OR (2d Ed. 1960) This 1891 steamer ''Flyer'' should not be confused with the steamboat ''Flyer'' built on Lake Coeur d'Alene in 1905, although the Coeur d'Alene vessel was inspired both in design and name by the success of the Puget Sound ship.Hult, Ruby El, ''Steamboats in the Timber'', Binfords and Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1952) Design and construction ''Flyer'' was the first vessel ordered by the Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation Company, a concern formed by Capt. U.B. Scott and others, which already controlled the fast sternwheeler ''Telephone'' on the Columbia River, and on Puget Sound, the then new and fas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
