Washington State Timeline 5

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Washington State Timeline 5 of 6 from 1889 to 1928 at Timeline Help.

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-1890

-1893 - 1897

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-1896

-1897 - 1901

-1899

-1901 - 1905

-1902

-1905 - 1909

-1905

-1909 - 1909

-1909 - 1913

-1909

-1910 - 1930s

-1910

-1913 - 1919

-1916

-1917

-1919 - 1925

-1919

-1925 - 1933

-1928

Washington becomes the 42nd state of the U.S. Indian Appropriations Act of 1889. The Great Seattle Fire destroyes the central business district.

The town of Colville is founded.

John McGraw governor.

The Great Northern Railroad is linkec to Seattle.

Klondike Gold Rush or Yukon Gold Rush.

John Rogers governor.

Mount Rainier National Park is established.

Henry McBride governor.

The Reclamation Act.

Albert E. Mead governor.

The Washington State Highway Department is established.

Samuel G. Cosgrove governor.

Marion E. Hay governor.

The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. President Theodore Roosevelt designates the Mount Olympus National Monument (now Olympic National Park)

The Yakima-Tieton Irrigation irrigation project, initiated by the Reclamation Act of 1902.

Women have the right to vote in Washington State.

Ernest Lister governor.

The Boeing Company is founded in Seattle.

U.S. Army Fort Lewis is established.

Louis Folwell Hart governor.

City-wide labor action in a general strike in Seattle.

Roland H. Hartley governor.

Washington court rule that the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) may participate in elections.

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Bibliography of the Washington State Timeline

Avery, M (1965). History of the Evergreen State.
Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture and Holmes Norton, E (2005). The Black Washingtonians. The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology. Sheldon, C H (1992). The Wa High Bench. A Bibliographical History of the State Supreme Court, 1889 - 19991.
Morgan, M C and Morgan, R (1984). South on the Sound. Illustrated history of Tacoma and Pierce County.
Walden, J (2007). Tales from the Wa State Courgars Sideline.

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