Junius Rochester

Yesterday's Port Ludlow was an important Chemakum Native village and burial site.  Later it became one of the Pacific Northwest's largest sawmills. Today it has evolved into a luxury resort.

After leaving the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers in October 1805, near today's Pasco, Washington, the intrepid explorers marveled at "the number of dead salmon on the shores and floating in the river."

There is an abandoned U.S. Army fort, one of two in our state (the other is Fort Walla Walla) that were constructed to "protect" white settlers in the 1850s and 1860s.  Its name is Fort Simcoe.

In the 1940s and 50s a significant number of Middle Eastern immigrants found their way to the Pacific Northwest, including many students with professional skills.  Muslim influence thereafter grew within local colleges and universities.

"New York" was the first settler name of "Smaquamox" for the Denny, Low, Boren, Terry, and Bell families.  John Low and Lee Terry, native New Yorkers, believed that ambitious name would augur a bright future for their little encampment.

Upon Father Prefontaine's death he left a bequest of $5,000 to the city for the construction of a public fountain.  Today that blue-tiled pool rests at the junction of Yesler and Third, not far from the site of the young priest's $6 a month clapboard room and chapel.

Our lives are soothed by an array of service attendants and a flock of mechanical conveniences.  Foods "appear" at market stalls as if from a garden or bakery in...

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.