The Toxic Legacy of Seattle's Lost Cemetery
In 1912, gravediggers unearthed 3,000 bodies along the Duwamish River. What happened next speaks to its status today.
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In 1912, gravediggers unearthed 3,000 bodies along the Duwamish River. What happened next speaks to its status today.
More than 120 years ago – long before the Ballard Locks changed the shape of Seattle’s future – an ambitious entrepreneur dug a canal from Elliott Bay to
Why Washington state’s constitution bans armed militias Before statehood, mob violence and labor suppression raised serious questions about who had the right to maintain public order. by Updated at 9:51 AM Jan. 21, 2021 Demonstrators with rifles slung across their backs attend a rally by gun-rights advocates in 2014, in Olympia, Wash. The armed protest drew members of the Three Percenters, a militia movement and paramilitary group described as having right-libertarian and far-right ideology. (Rachel La Corte/AP) In 1888, a confrontation in the coal-mining town of Roslyn, in Kittitas County...