The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Spokane, Washington, USA.
19th Century
- 1874 - Spokane Falls settlement established in Washington Territory by James N. Glover.
- 1879 - Spokane Times newspaper begins publication.
- 1880 - Population: 350.
- 1881 - November 29: Spokane Falls incorporated as a town and then as a City.
- 1882 - Spokane becomes seat of Spokane County.
- 1883
- 1884 - YMCA established.[1]
- 1887
- 1889
- August 4–6: The Great Fire.
- Union Pacific Railroad begins operating.
- Town becomes part of the new U.S. State of Washington.
- 1890
- Town of Spokane Falls renamed "Spokane."
- Casino Opera House opens (approximate date).[5]
- Population: 19,922.
- 1891
- 1892 - Great Northern Railway built.
- 1893 - September 19: Franz Ferdinand of Austria visits town incognito.[7]
- 1894 - The Spokesman-Review newspaper in publication.
- 1895
- Spokane County Courthouse built.[8]
- U.S. military Fort George Wright established near town.
- 1896 - Deaconess Hospital established.
- 1897 - Chamber of Commerce[9] and Spokane Stock Exchange established.
- 1900 - Population: 36,848.
20th century
21st century
See also
- other cities in Washington
References
- ^ "Our History". providence.org. Providence. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ a b Alan Michelson (ed.). "Pacific Coast Architecture Database". Seattle: University of Washington. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ a b c Historic Preservation Office. "Historic Properties of Spokane". City-County of Spokane. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ C. S. Kingston (1925). "Franz Ferdinand at Spokane—1893". Washington Historical Quarterly. 16 (1): 3–7. JSTOR 40475476.
- ^ "Historical Dates and Maps". Spokane County. Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ "Finding Aids". Northwest Digital Archives. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. pp. 7 v.
- ^ a b American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Washington: Spokane". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada. ISBN 0759100020.
- ^ "Barnes Northwest Room: Digital Collections". Spokane Public Library. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ Brand, Nathan (9 January 2013). "Park Inn: The Untold Story". The Inlander. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g "History: Time Line". City of Spokane. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ Nailen, Dan. "Best Of Food". inlander.com. The Inlander. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "Spokane Hoopfest". www.spokanehoopfest.net. Archived from the original on 2009-06-09.
- ^ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Spokane, Washington". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ "City of Spokane". Archived from the original on 1998-12-05 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ Spokane Public Library. "City Government Home Page". Archived from the original on 1997-01-13.
- ^ "Student Shot in Standoff at a Spokane High School". New York Times. September 23, 2003.
- ^ "James West, 55, Spokane Mayor Ousted in a Sex Scandal, Dies". New York Times. July 25, 2006.
- ^ "Washington". Official Congressional Directory: 109th Congress. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 2005. ISBN 9780160724664.
- ^ "Spokane (city), Washington". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ "In Spokane, a Mystery With No Good Solution". New York Times. February 13, 2011.
- ^ "QuickFacts 2020". census.gov. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
Bibliography
- Settlers' guide to homes in the northwest, being a hand-book of Spokane Falls, W.T. Spokane Falls: Dallam, Ansell & Edwards. 1885.
- Jonathan Edwards (1900), Illustrated History of Spokane County, W.H. Lever, OCLC 4873043, OL 6912581M
- "Spokane" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 713–714.
- Nelson Wayne Durham (1912), History of the city of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., OCLC 3098070, OL 13528646M
- Spokane City Directory. Polk. 1913. hdl:2027/uc1.l0065060402.
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Spokane", Washington: a Guide to the Evergreen State, American Guide Series, Portland, Or.: Binfords & Mort, hdl:2027/uc1.b3624995 – via HathiTrust
- W. Hudson Kensel (1969). "Inland Empire Mining and the Growth of Spokane, 1883-1905". Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 60 (2): 84–97. JSTOR 40488655.
- Dwayne A. Mack (2003). "Crusade for Equality: Spokane's Civil Rights Movement during the Early 1960s". Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 95.
- Dwayne A. Mack (2014). Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4712-3.
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