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History of the Mount Baker Neighborhood
Prepared by Katie Pratt and Spencer Howard of Northwest Vernacular, Inc. on behalf of the Friends of Mount Baker Town Center with funding...
Juneteenth Celebrations
Juneteenth celebrates the ending of slavery in the United States. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,...
Ilda Jackson's Sweet Potato Pie
“He kept saying, ‘I want a sweet potato pie like my mother made.’” by Mikala Woodward, Excerpted from Rainier Valley Food Stories...
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Franklin High School and the Mount Baker Neighborhood
This photo of the just-completed Franklin High School was taken from somewhere half-way up Beacon Hill in about 1913. The Rainier Valley...
Rainier Valley's Timbered Past
Horses hauling logs at Columbia Mill, Columbia, July 15, 1891. Photo property of Rainier Valley Historical Society, Accession Number...
Calithumpians in Columbia City
Crowd outside Phalen's Grocery during Rainier Valley Fiesta, Seattle, 1915. Property of Rainier Valley Historical Society, Accession...
The Lost World of Neighborhood Groceries
Whenever young Bernice Boley had a little money, she’d head over to Vincent’s grocery for some penny candy: this was the 1930s, and a...
Hillman City through the ages
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...
Columbia Electric Bakery - From Spark to Flame
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...
John Parker
Audio recording, John Parker describing the Model T Ford he built up from parts of several cars during the 1920s....
John Croce on Italian School
Audio recording of John Croce recollecting the Italian School from the Garlic Gulch neighborhood in the 1930s.
Jack Collier
Interview of Jack Collier by Buzz Anderson from 1994.
Carry Me Back To Columbia City
The song "Carry Me Back to Columbia City" sung by the Columbia Pioneers at the 1973 annual meeting.
Scuola Italiana
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...
Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook
A culinary history of the Rainier Valley going back 100 years with recipes and stories from our multicultural community. This project...
Images of America: Rainier Valley
Written by Rainier Valley Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publications. Where could one find "Garlic Gulch," a stadium named...
Lessons in Civic Activism: Greenwood Gardens
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...
How To Build A Bridge
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...
Schoolyard Standoffs: The Tale of Whitworth Elementary
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...
Everybody In: Community Activism in the Rainier Valley
We have completed a project researching and documenting the history of community activism in the Rainier Valley. We were interested in...
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