CSPAN3 Northern Pacific Railroad August 6, 2017
Europeans arrived. Mostly along the shoreline. That was because the primary purpose here for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber. That was then sent down to san francisco. That prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and small investors and adventurers to come up and begin to build cities. Seattle, bellingham, port all were olympia, communities ofsh 52 a few hundred people 50 to a few hundred people prior to the arrival of the transcontinental. At the conclusion of the civil war and the announcement that the railroad was coming, every community hoped that they would be the ...