History of Seattle

Seattle is the northernmost major city in the United States. This article describes a brief history of Seattle. It is located on a narrow strip of land between the salt waters of Puget Sound and Lake Washington. Then there are two mountain ranges near the rivers. Therefore, it is a city built on hills and around the water. The first settlers who came to the city were members of Denny Party and they came in 1851, but in 1852, they moved to the eastern coast of Elliot bay. City of Seattle became official in 1853, when the first location was filed.

During this time was the economy on lumber mill. Indian war of 1856 interrupted the development of the city, and it remained stagnant over the next few years however, 1869 when territorial legislature included Seattle was 2000 inhabitants. In the 1870s coal was discovered there was still no growth explosion and everything went slowly, late 1870 rail road was built in 1883 to Tocoma, but with some pressure on the Government and a train, a track to Seattle, which also lays down, with the economy grew and so did the general population, many people came here in the city. Population growth was reduced by the fire of 1869 as leveled down quite a large area of the city, making many people homeless.

At the beginning of the 1890s was also not very prosperous for Seattle, 1893 another rail road was lied down, but it did little to improve population. Gold was discovered in 1897 and again Seattle became a center of attention when they came here that my Gold and earn big profits. During the early 1900s Seattle discovered the reward for his creative and thus continued to grow, but the population became intensely varied, it was like a people of any kind were allowed to only do one job and cannot affect all other jobs. 1942 42 floors building was completed, as was the tallest building in America for quite a long time. During World War one, the city of freight industry revolutionized and produced a large number of ships of war. During the 1930s Depression hit the town and the economic growth that suffered tremendously. Boeing Company was built in 1916, but it was not until the 1950s that the plan produced once again improved economy of the city.

Since then, the population growth and the economy has been almost the entire line of time, if there are any incidents was the economy declined, but eventually was improved. Currently Seattle quite an impressive number of firms that provide jobs to people. But it is the art and cultural institution is the major backbone of city economic and population growth.