Junius Rochester

The Industrial Workers of the World, known as the IWW or "Wobblies," in the early 1900s had aggressively recruited mill workers and loggers in Southwest Washington State.  The Wobblies believed that a revolution was at hand. 

Within the first decade of the 20th century over 100 churches were established in Seattle.

After buying a home in the neighborhood during his "Rawhide" TV days, Eastwood's affection for Carmel took root.  It was while he served the town as mayor that the historic Mission Ranch came on the market.  It was only a step or two from there to investing in what Eastwood saw as Carmel's living history.

Just before World War I, Pantages emerged as the top theater owner in the United States.

Icelanders settled in large numbers in the Point Roberts area in the late 1800s.

Some pure forms of Native language still exist.  For example, the elementary school at Taholah, on the Quinault Reservation in Washington State, teaches Quileute to youngsters.

At the old clarinetist's last house, a backyard boasted an imitation of the Parthenon and the fence around it consisted, in part, of old bedsteads. 

By the end of 1943 Hanford had stealthily risen from the Columbia Plateau.  Hanford had been founded in 1906 on the south bank of the Columbia River by the Hanford Irrigation and Power Company, named after Seattleite Judge Cornelius H. Hanford.

Author of "Of Time and the River, "Look Homeward, Angel," and other examples of the most descriptive prose in our time, Wolfe toured the Western National Parks in June of 1938 in the back seat of a Ford sedan as he entered Washington State.

Chief Sealth (Seattle), who reluctantly gave his name to a future Puget Sound metropolis, may have been right when he warned of his people's spirits hovering among today's busy city dwellers.