Articles

Hillman City began as a stop on the Rainier Valley Streetcar line in the 1890s. The area was platted by, and named after, the notorious...

The history of bread goes back some 30,000 years, to the hunting and gathering phase of human development. Fast forward a few tens of...

They came down from Beacon Hill, from the Central District, and from the valley floor. Most came by foot with a friend or two. The...

A culinary history of the Rainier Valley going back 100 years with recipes and stories from our multicultural community. This project...

Written by Rainier Valley Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publications. Where could one find "Garlic Gulch," a stadium named...

In the 1970s, people had all kinds of ideas about what should go in at 38th and Othello—a police station, a bible college, a Native...

From the west slope of Beacon Hill, the Lucile Street Bridge runs under Interstate 5 and dives in a massive U over the railroad tracks at...

This project was completed in 2011 and was founded by a special project grant from King County 4Culture. One day in the fall of 1988...

We have completed a project researching and documenting the history of community activism in the Rainier Valley. We were interested in...

This project was completed in 2011 and was founded by a special project grant from King County 4Culture. John Hoole and I began our...

Community organizing starts with problems—a rat infested apartment, the steady drip drip from the ceiling of an elementary school after a...

2010 marks the 100th year of operation for the Lakewood Seward Park Community Club Take a look at the Seward Park peninsula today and...

In the 2008-09 school year, fifty 6th grade students from the New School explored the rich tapestry of faith traditions in the Rainier...

Children's issues were deemed an appropriate arena for women: Washington Women started voting in school elections in 1890. The Rainier...

Women were not given the vote; they earned it.

This exhibit was created in 2009 in conjunction with the Washington State History Society's Exhibit, "Women's Votes, Women's Voices"....

When Marion Southard married Phillip Weiss in 1926, she gave up her career as a social worker in order to raise her children. Back then,...

A hundred years ago, women's roles in the public sphere often grew out of their experience as wives and mothers at home: women worked as...

"We decided to make a quilt. It’s cool. It shows all kind of things that happened in history in this neighborhood. We learned to work...

In the spring of 2005, a group of fourth and fifth graders at Orca @ Columbia School researched the history of the stream that used to...