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New episodes released weekly on Wednesday nights at 9pm Pacific Time.The History of the Evergreen State is a weekly show that focuses on various topics surrounding the history of the great state of Washington. From iconic people to maritime disasters, to a war with only a pig casualty, various disasters, and every interesting story in between. Episodes will either be self-contained single episode stories or in a two-part format, for the most part My intent with this podcast is to bring a lec ...
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Washington State University, which was first established in 1890 as a land-grant college, has developed into one of the most prestigious public research colleges in the United States. The institution, which is known affectionately (if unofficially) as Wazzu, has expanded from one small building on a hillside in Pullman to a statewide system that in…
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The only incorporated settlement on Fidalgo Island, which is separated from the mainland by the Swinomish Channel, the City of Anacortes may be found in Skagit County on the far northern tip of Fidalgo Island in Puget Sound. Anacortes is connected to the mainland and to Whidbey Island to the south by means of bridges that carry highway traffic. An …
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The Mountaineers Club has a storied history of over a century, playing a pivotal role in promoting outdoor recreation, exploration, and environmental conservation in the Pacific Northwest. Its legacy remains strong, as it continues to inspire and connect outdoor enthusiasts, fostering a deep appreciation for the natural beauty and rugged landscapes…
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The history of the University of Washington football program is filled with tradition, success, and a dedicated fan base. Founded in 1889, the University of Washington is located in Seattle, and its football team, known as the Washington Huskies, has become one of the most storied programs in college football. Football was introduced to the Univers…
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The power struggle between Henry Suzallo and Governor Roland Hartley took place in the early 20th century in the state of Washington, United States. Henry Suzallo was the president of the University of Washington, and Roland Hartley was the Governor of Washington during the 1920s. The conflict between Suzallo and Hartley arose due to their differin…
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In what was originally known as the Big Bend Country, Mansfield is located on a plateau in the center of the Central Washington wheatlands. The town was founded in 1889 and was given the name Mansfield after Robert E. Darling, who settled there in 1900. Mansfield was first served by a train, the Mansfield Branch Line, in 1909, and became a city in …
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Roche Harbor, located on San Juan Island, has a long and fascinating history of lime production that dates back to the late 19th century. Lime production in Roche Harbor played a significant role in the economic development of the region and left a lasting legacy that is still evident to this day. The story of lime production in Roche Harbor begins…
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Tex Johnston was an American test pilot and aviation pioneer known for his significant contributions to the development of jet aircraft. He is most famous for his daring demonstration flight of the Boeing 707, which earned him both praise and controversy. Alvin Melvin Johnson was born on the 18th of August, 1914, in Admire, Kansas. He developed an …
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The USS Olympia is a historical warship with a rich and storied past. It is best known as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey during the Spanish-American War, specifically for its pivotal role in the Battle of Manila Bay. The USS Olympia (C-6) is an armored cruiser of the United States Navy and was commissioned on the 5th of February, 1895. It w…
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Authorized and named in 1913, the Inland Empire Highway was a state roadway that ran across central and eastern Washington. It took a tortuous path via Ellensburg, Yakima, Pasco, Walla Walla, Spokane, and Colville to connect the small towns of Virden, northeast of Cle Elum in Kittitas County, and Laurier, on the Canadian border in Ferry County. It …
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Earl Averill, the Earl of Snohomish, was born on the 21st of May, 1902, in Snohomish, Washington, was an American professional baseball player who achieved great success during the 1930s and 1940s. Averill is best known for his remarkable career as an outfielder for the Cleveland Indians in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "The Earl of Snohom…
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Presenting the first interview ever done on the History of the Evergreen State Podcast! President of the Purple Sage Riders of the Back Country Horsemen of Washington, Tawney Carrier, joins me on the show today to discuss the fascinating life of Herbert Hover and the tiny eastern Washington town he founded, Hover. Little more than a ghost town toda…
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With the 1996 discovery of his almost entire skeleton at a riverfront park in Kennewick, a man who lived 8,500 years ago along the Columbia River in what is now central Washington's Tri-Cities region became the subject of intense dispute and garnered international attention. Five local Native tribes wanted to rebury the man they honored as an ances…
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Aaron Webster arrived in what is now Bucoda in 1854 and became the area's first American immigrant. Webster sold his claim and sawmill to Oliver Shead in the 1860s, and Shead gave the community the official name "Seatco," which is a native term for an evil spirit or demon. In 1872, the Northern Pacific Railroad built a station at Seatco. Eventually…
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In about 1885, Lee Ives founded the community that would eventually become known as Pateros by establishing Ives Landing as a roadhouse along the Columbia River. It was called Pateros in 1900 by Spanish American War veteran Charles E. Nosler in honor of a Filipino community he had visited there. Pateros was officially founded in May of 1913, and fo…
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The Sunset Highway, one of Washington's earliest cross-state highways, offered the first vehicular crossing of the Cascade Mountains, which split the state in two pretty much up to that point. The highway mostly followed a Native trail that had been turned into a wagon road when it was opened in 1915. Throughout the years, the Sunset Highway saw a …
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The 1905 Lewis & Clark Exhibition in Portland, Oregon, was immediately followed by the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), which was held in Seattle from the 1st of June to the 16th of October, 1909. A group of pioneers from Alaska's gold rush provided the fair with its initial spark in 1905. Businessmen from Seattle revised the initial concept…
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Frederick Spencer Stimson and Charles Douglas "C. D." Stimson, two Seattle lumber baron brothers, purchased a rural property outside Woodinville called Derby for use as a hunting camp and a country getaway. On one section, C. D. constructed the Willows lodge, while on another, Frederick constructed his "Manor Mansion" in 1910. Originally used as a …
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The Volunteer Park Conservatory, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, a city water reservoir, and a standpipe may all be found in this Olmsted-designed iconic park on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Visitors come from all over the area to this open-space sanctuary in a residentially dense area. The park's grounds were initially purchased by the city in 1876 for …
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Twisp is a small town located in the Methow Valley region of Okanogan County, Washington. The town's history dates back to the late 1800s when the first settlers arrived in the area. The town was named after the Twisp River, which flows through the area and is a tributary of the Methow River. In 1888, John Twisp, a surveyor, and his partner, Robert…
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The Alaskan Way Seawall, which stretches from just north of Broad Street south to Washington Street beneath Pioneer Square, is responsible for creating the flat ledge of land on Seattle's center waterfront. The shallower portion south of Madison Street was built in the 1910s and 1920s, while the more problematic and challenging northern halkf would…
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The Ellensburg Rodeo is an annual rodeo event held in the city of Ellensburg, Washington. It is one of the oldest and most respected rodeos in the United States, and has a rich history dating back over a century. The first Ellensburg Rodeo was held in 1923, organized by a group of local cowboys and ranchers who wanted to showcase their skills and e…
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The most revered sports figure in Seattle is Frederick Charles "Hutch" Hutchinson. He was the first to achieve national renown and is regarded as a true hometown hero for both his achievements off the field and his bravery and demeanor in public. He was a standout from his earliest days on the Rainier Beach sandlots and hailed from a baseball-lovin…
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The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, which once possessed 90 square miles of standing forest in Pierce County and manufactured billions of board feet of lumber at its Tacoma mill complex, was the second-largest logging and lumber business in the Evergreen State during its prime. Together with the Northern Pacific Railway, which agreed to construct…
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The Spokane Falls Review, which was founded in 1883, and The Spokesman, founded in 1890, are the forerunners of The Spokesman-Review, Spokane's primary daily newspaper. These competing newspapers merged in 1893 and took the name The Spokane Review. The Spokesman-Review was renamed by publisher and sole owner William Hutchinson Cowles in 1894. For m…
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The Nooksack River flows through Ferndale, which is situated in western Whatcom County about six miles northwest of Bellingham. The region that became Ferndale began to take shape when non-Native settlers moved upriver — toward the Fraser River in search of gold; away from the economic bust after the sawmill on Bellingham Bay burned; and around a m…
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The sea is fundamental to the Makah Indians' culture and way of life. Their home territory is on the Olympic Peninsula in the northwest portion of the Evergreen State, between the Pacific Ocean's shoreline and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. For thousands of years, they have been hunting gray whales. Every component of the whale was used by the tribe f…
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The Klickitat term "Yalicolb," which means "haunted place," gave its name to the community of Yacolt in north-central Clark County. The town, which has fewer than 1,500 residents, is located in the Cascade Mountain foothills, about 22 miles northeast of Vancouver, Clark County's seat and 32 miles southwest of Mount St. Helens. 'Members of the nearb…
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In Clallam County, the bustling city of Sequim, the almost abandoned village of Dungeness, and the valley between them are all connected historically, culturally, and economically. The current population of Sequim is 8,048, or more than 20,000 if the surrounding valley is included. Before Sequim was incorporated as a town, Dungeness existed on the …
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The son of Josephine (Anderson) Poindexter and William B. Poindexter, Miles Poindexter was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His father served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and they lived in Malvern Hill, Henrico County, Virginia. Poindexter was born and raised in Rockbridge County, Virginia, where he also attended the Fan…
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The American Legion held an Armistice Day procession in Centralia's downtown on the 11th of November, 1919. In what is now known as the Centralia Massacre, or the Centralia Tragedy, a number of Wobblies opened fire on the legionnaires at the conclusion of the procession. Four legionnaires were shot and killed, including Warren Grimm. An enraged mob…
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The Hanford Nuclear Site, formerly known as Hanford Engineer Works, was established in the early 1940s to develop nuclear weapon fuel, including for the atomic bomb that was detonated on Nagasaki, Japan, which ultimately ended the second World War. Throughout the Cold War, Hanford continued to produce weapons, and in 1964 it started producing power…
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From 1957 through 1962, John E. Goldmark, an Okanogan-born state representative, spent three terms in the Washington State House of Representatives. He advanced to positions of leadership within the Democratic Party and was regarded as one of the most significant figures in the liberal movement. However, a number of right-wing political rivals laun…
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Aubrey Lee White of Spokane fought to ensure the long-term quality of the environment of his adopted city and its surrounds long before "environmentalism" became a well-known term. The 20-year-old native of Maine made his way to Spokane in 1889. He worked odd jobs to support himself while exploring Spokane and the surrounding area on foot or in a b…
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With a surface area of 29.5 square miles, Lopez Island is the third-largest island in San Juan County and is encircled by the chilly Salish Sea. On the Washington State Ferry route from Anacortes to the San Juan Islands, it is the first scheduled stop. Lopez Island has a warm climate, flat topography, and excellent soil. These characteristics, toge…
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Moulton "Molt" Taylor, a native of the Pacific Northwest and skilled inventor, creative thinker, and fervent supporter of what he saw as the future of flying, created the Aerocar, a hybrid vehicle that combines an airplane and a car. Taylor, who grew up in Longview and Kelso, started building and flying model airplanes as a Boy Scout, obtained his …
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Three socialist men established the Free Land Association early in the first decade of the 20th century, and on Whidbey Island's southern shore, near Holmes Harbor, the utopian settlement of Freeland was established a year later. The association's aim for Freeland was to prioritize cooperative living over political doctrine in an effort to avoid th…
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The worst labor dispute in Northwest history has been dubbed the Everett Massacre and took place on Sunday, the 5th of November, 1916. On that day, a group of Industrial Workers of the World, better known as Wobblies, took the steamers Verona and Calista from Seattle to Everett with the intention of speaking in support of a strike by nearby shingle…
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Ritzville, located in eastern Washington, is the hub of a significant wheat-growing region. When the Northern Pacific railroad made it a station stop, it came into being in 1881. It was given the name Ritzville to honor Philip Ritz, an early resident who won the bid to grade 10 miles of the railroad bed. At first, the town was primarily populated b…
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What was described as America's "Gilded Age" came to an excruciating end less than four years after Washington Territory became a state when the country was hit by the worst economic catastrophe it had ever seen. The Panic of 1893, a four-month bout of financial hysteria, struck the country in late spring of that year. Thousands of banks and busine…
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In G.O. 43, issued April 4th, 1900, it was named after Rear Admiral John L. Worden, U.S. Navy, who was in command of the first "Monitor" in its fight with the Confederate ram "Merrimac" in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 8th and 9th, 1862, during the Civil War. The fort was built in 1897 and decommissioned in 1953. Fort Worden has the distinction…
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A special thank you goes out to Al Hirsch for providing the music for the podcast, check him out on YouTube. Find merchandise for the podcast now available at: https://washington-history-by-jon-c.creator-spring.com If you enjoy the podcast and would like to contribute, please visit: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Evergreenpod If you have any question…
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Happy Thanksgiving to those listeners that celebrate. This special episode continues a theme the show does every year for the holiday, centered around all things food. Last year, episode 18 focused on massive foods from throughout the Evergreen State, whereas this year is focused entirely on sweet treats that got their start right here in the Everg…
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At the head of Grays Harbor, at the southern extremity of the Olympic Peninsula, Aberdeen is located at the junction of the Chehalis and Wishkah rivers. Rich fisheries and ample timber supported a number of Native American settlements, and in the mid-nineteenth century, the region attracted white American settlement. A number of tiny settlements sp…
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The Columbia River Quarantine Station, established on the 9th of May, 1899, at Knappton Cove. The Quarantine Station served as a ship disinfection station as well as an isolation facility for people with contagious disorders. At the Battle of Manila Bay, the USS CONCORD was part of Commodore Dewey's squadron, which defeated the Spanish Pacific Flee…
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The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which opened to traffic on July 1st, 1940, was built in the Evergreen State during the 1930s. It ran from Gig Harbor to Tacoma, about 40 miles south of Seattle, over Puget Sound. The canal where the bridge crossed the sound is about a mile wide. With a length of 5,959 feet, it was the world's third longest suspension brid…
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The inland passenger steamer SS Dix collides with the steam schooner SS Jeanie two miles north of Alki Point and one mile west of Duwamish Head on Sunday, November 18th, 1906. The Dix, carrying 77 passengers and crew from downtown Seattle to Port Blakely on Bainbridge Island, sinks in five minutes, killing at least 39 people. Listen now to learn mo…
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The inland passenger steamship SS Clallam departed Seattle for Victoria, British Columbia, via Port Townsend, on Friday, January 8, 1904. The Clallam experiences severe seas and gale-force winds as it enters the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and begins to sink within sight of Victoria Harbor. Fearing that the ship is sinking, the captain orders the launc…
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