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Seattle city overview
Seattle is a city in USA shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Airport baseSeattle-Tacoma (SEA)
Known forSeattle, Pacific Northwest, Seattle planning base 3, Seattle planning base 4
Population~737kcity context
RegionUSAUSA
Time zoneAmerica/Los_Angeleslocal time
Founded1851historical origin
City history
The rest of the Denny Party set sail on the schooner Exact from Portland, Oregon, stopping in Astoria, and landed at Alki Point during a rainstorm on November 13, 1851.
Charles Terry and John Low remained at the original landing location, reestablished their old land claim and called it "New York", but renamed "New York Alki" in April 1853, from a Chinook word meaning.
On January 14, 1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of trustees managing the city.
The Town of Seattle was disincorporated on January 18, 1867, and remained a mere precinct of King County until late 1869, when a new petition was filed and the city was re-incorporated December 2.
Seattle had achieved sufficient economic success when the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 destroyed the central business district.
Seattle was the home base of impresario Alexander Pantages who, starting in 1902, opened a number of theaters in the city exhibiting vaudeville acts and silent movies.
The Gold Rush era culminated in the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition of 1909, which is largely responsible for the layout of today's University of Washington campus.
Violence during the Maritime Strike of 1934 cost Seattle much of its maritime traffic, which was rerouted to the Port of Los Angeles.
On March 30, 1971, the first location for Starbucks Coffee opened at Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle.
Along with Seattle, other cities like Everett, Tacoma, Port Townsend, Bremerton, and Olympia, all in the Puget Sound region, became competitors for exchange, rather than mother lodes for extraction, of precious metals. 20th century.
Finance company Washington Mutual, for example, was founded in the immediate wake of the fire.
In a short time, Seattle became a major transportation center.
Portland docked with its famed "ton of gold", and Seattle became the main transport and supply point for the miners in Alaska and the Yukon.
The workers, mostly men, built roads, parks, dams, schools, railroads, bridges, docks, and even historical and archival record sites and buildings.
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Seattle
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Pacific Northwest
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) arrival plan
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Rental cars
Seattle day-trip car use
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Best time to visit
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Transport notes
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Crowds
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