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History of Seattle

This is the main article of a series that covers the History of Seattle, Washington, a city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America.

Seattle has a history of boom and bust, or at least boom and quiescence. Seattle has almost been sent into permanent decline by the aftermaths of its worst periods as a pany town, but has typically used those periods to successfully rebuild infrastructure. There have been at least five such cycles:

The lumber-industry boom, followed by the construction of an Olmsted-designed park system.

The Klondike gold rush started in 1896, but reached Seattle in July of 1897. This constituted the largest boom for Seattle, and ended Seattle's (and the nation's) economic woes it had been suffering since the Panic of 1893.

The shipbuilding boom, followed by the unused city development plan of Virgil Bogue.

The Boeing boom, followed by general infrastructure building.

Most recently, the boom based on Microsoft and other software, web, and telemunications panies, such as Amazon, AT&T Wireless, and RealNetworks; although the aforementioned industries remain relatively strong, the boom definitely ended in 2000.

[edit] Early history of Seattle

What is now Seattle has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago), definitively for at least 4,000 years. In the mid 1850s the peoples of what is now called the Duwamish Tribe were living in some 13 villages in what is Seattle today.

The founding of Seattle is usually dated from the arrival of the Denny Party in 1851. The next April, Arthur A. Denny abandoned the original site at Alki in favor of the better protected site on Elliott Bay that is now part of downtown Seattle. Around the same time, David Swinson "Doc" Maynard began settling the land immediately south of Denny's.

Seattle in its early decades relied on the timber industry, shipping logs (and, later, milled timber) to San Francisco. A climax forest of trees up to 1,000–2,000 years old and towering as high as nearly 400 ft (100 m) covered much of what is now Seattle. Today, none of that size remain anywhere in the world.[1]

When Henry Yesler brought the first steam sawmill to the region, he chose a location on the waterfront where Maynard and Denny's plats met. Thereafter Seattle would dominate the lumber industry.

Charlie Terry sold out Alki (which, after his departure barely held on as a settlement), moved to Seattle and began acquiring land. He either owned or partially owned Seattle's first timber ships. He eventually gave a land grant to the University of the Territory of Washington (later University of Washington), and was instrumental in the politics to establish an urban infrastructure.

The logging town developed rapidly over decades into a small city. Despite being officially founded by the Methodists of the Denny Party, Seattle quickly developed a reputation as a wide-open town, a haven for prostitution, liquor, and gambling. Some attribute this, at least in part, to Maynard.

Real estate records show that nearly all of the city's first 60 businesses were on, or immediately adjacent to, Maynard's plat.

All of this occurred against a background of sometimes rocky relations with the local Native American population, including a nominally pitched battle January 25, 1856.

Seattle was incorporated as a town 14 January 1865. That charter was voided 18 January 1867, in response to unrest. Seattle was re-incorporated 21 December 1869. At the times of incorporations, the population was approximately 350 and 1,000, respectively.[2]