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Sammamish Valley News Index
Sammamish Valley News front page articles. Covers 1963-1994 newspapers
in the Redmond Library collection. Indexing funded by the KCLS Foundation
- we hope to secure additional funding to index vital statistics.
Washington
State Newsstand |  
Articles from Washington newspapers, including the Seattle Times, PI,
and Tacoma News Tribune.
Washington State - General
Des Moines Historical Society
This site offers information about the history of the greater
Des Moines area of Southern King County in Washington State. It is presented
by the Des Moines Historical Society.
Find it on the Web: Washington
Information
Links to everything Washington provided by the King County Library
System.
Pictures:
Washington
Yahooligans's links to pictures of historical and natural places
in Washington State.
Washington:
A Little Trip to the Extraordinary
Basic information about Washington State from 50states.com.
Washington
County Data
This site, from the Washington Agricultural Statistics Service, provides
facts about agriculture in Washington along with a few general details,
such as population and area statistics. Select a county, a commodity or
a demographic and find details about crops, livestock and the farming
industry. One concern: some statistics are from the mid-1990s.
Washington
Place Names Database
The Tacoma Public Library provides background on how places in Washington
were named and then provides searching capabilities and brief entries
about each resulting place.
Washington
State Facts
Includes general information, census data, city & county information,
geography and much more – from Access Washington and the Washington State
Dept. of Information Services.
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Biographies
About the Governor
This brief biography from the Governor’s home page gives
background information on Christine Gregoire’s career and family.
It also includes links to the First Gentleman’s website and other
information released from the Governor’s office.
Biography of Bill Gates
Brief biography on Gates from the Microsoft website. It includes information
on his education and career in the software industry.
George
Washington Bush
The City of Tumwater provides essays and background information
from Olympia News, The Olympian and other sources on
Washington State pioneer, George Washington Bush and his family.
Lewis
and Clark. Inside the Corps. The Corps.
PBS provides this list of links to biographies on all members of the Corps
of Discovery. Included are biographies on Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark, Sacajawea, and others on this famous expedition.
PBS-The
West-Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
The PBS website gives this short biography and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman,
which describes their personal backgrounds as well as their work on missions
in the West and Oregon Territory.
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Washington State - Government. City &
County
About King County
The official King County government web page includes a map, county
leaders, budget, census data, statistical profile and more.
Community Web Sites
Provides links to community organizations in King County arranged by
region or city name – from the King County government web page.
Find it in the Web: Local
Government Information
King County information, demographics, city and regional resources,
City of Seattle, and other cities information, provided by the King County
Library System.
Washington
State Counties
Alphabetical links to the Web sites of the counties of Washington State,
from Access Washington.
Washington State- Government, State
Access Washington
Quick starting point for Washington State government information.
Find it on the Web: State
Government Information
Washington State information, laws and legislation, state agencies
and state government and politics, provided by the King County Library
System.
Washington
State Constitution
The full text of the Washington State Constitution from the Washington
Courts.
Washington State Data
Book
Statistics about Washington State updated every other year and divided
into eleven major sections: population, economy, state government finance,
human services, criminal justice, education, natural resources, environment,
energy, transportation, and local government. Provided by the Washington
State Office of Financial Management.
Washington State
Legislature
House and Senate information, bills and laws, elected officials, and more.
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Washington State- History & Explorers
Explorers | History
Explorers
History
Link
This searchable web site, which is an evolving online encyclopedia of
state and local history in Washington State created by a team of local
historians and writers, provides more than 4,000 essays and web features
including biographies, timelines, clickable maps and articles on the state’s
first white explorers and settlers, African Americans and Asian American
pioneers, and founders of local cities and towns in Washington State.
A History of Fort
Vancouver
The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, exploration, Dr. John McLoughlin,
Fort Vancouver and the fur trade industry in Washington and the Pacific
Northwest from the National Park Service.
Marcus
Whitman (1802-1847) and Narcissa Whitman (1808-1847)
An overview of the Whitmans, among the first American settlers in Washington
who played an important role in opening the Oregon Trail and left a tragic
legacy that would haunt relations between whites and Native Americans
for decades after their deaths, from PBS. Includes the Letters and Journals
of Narcissa Whitman 1836-1847.
Peter
Puget on Puget’s Sound
An excerpt from Murray Morgan’s book, Puget’s Sound, provided by the Tacoma
Public Library. Describes the discovery of Puget Sound attributed to the
British lieutenant.
Washington
Territorial Timeline
The Washington State Archives has developed a timeline of the
Washington Territory to 1889.
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History
100 Years in the Pacific Northwest
Every Sunday throughout 1996, The Seattle Times published a page
looking at the history of Seattle through the eyes of the newspaper.
These pages are indexed on the Web.
Camp
Harmony Exhibit
An online exhibit about the 1942 detention in Puyallup of Japanese
Americans,based on materials located in the University of Washington
Libraries including newspapers, photographs, correspondence, books,
and documents.
A
History Bursting With Telling: Asian Americans in Washington State
Developed at the University of Washington as a curriculum project for
Washington State schools, this site is mostly text but includes some
photographs, a timeline and many links to related information.
History
Day: History Related Links
Links to many historical sites for Washington State from Washington
History Day, Department of History, Central Washington University
HistoryLink
HistoryLink, created by a team of local historians, writers, editors,
designers, and Internet experts, is an evolving online encyclopedia of
Seattle and King County history, but provides many links to events in
state history--rosters of the local war dead, the WTO archives, baseball
memories, and much more.
In
Memory: Washington State Veterans Memorials
A guide to the veterans memorials located on the capitol campus
in Olympia, Washington, from the Washington State Department of Veterans
Affairs.
MOHAI
Historical Photo Database
The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) has compiled a searchable
database of historical photographs. You'll find images of Seattle, King
County, and other areas of Washington State.
Murray's
People
Essays about early Washington people and places by Northwest historian,
Murray Morgan, from the Tacoma Public Library's Northwest Room /Special
Collections.
Pacific County Historical Society and Museum
The history of Pacific County in Washington State.
Unsettling
Events
Selected from the Clippings File of the Tacoma Public Library's Northwest
Room /Special Collections, these true-life tales chillingly of earthquakes
and other disasters, monsters, ghosts, battles and more, capture the dark
side of our state's history.
Washington
University of Washington Libraries’ state section of Pacific
Northwest History lists links including "100 Years in the Pacific
Northwest" from the Seattle Times and Tacoma Public Library’s NW
History Databases.
Washington State Historical
Society
Homepage for the Washington State Historical Society, with links
to permanent and changing exhibits, educational resources, special publications,
History Lab, and more
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Washington State- Native Peoples
American
Indians of the Pacific Northwest
This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700
pages of text illustrating many aspects of life and work, including
housing, clothing, crafts, transportation, education, and employment
of American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest,
the Northwest Coast and Plateau. The materials are drawn from the extensive
collections of the University of Washington Libraries, the Cheney Cowles
Museum/Eastern Washington State Historical Society in Spokane, and the
Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.
American
Indians of the Pacific Northwest
Provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and
documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented
by essays written by anthropologists, historians and teachers about
both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. From the University
of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.
Northwest
Tribes
Collection of links gathered by Multnomah County Library that are specific
to the tribes of the Northwest.
The
Whitman Massacre Trial : A Clash of Cultures
Details of the trial following the November 29, 1847 attack on Doctor
Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and twelve other white people, by the Cayuse
Indians, from the Oregon State Archives.
Whitman
Mission National Historic Site on the Web: Historic Resources
Learn about the mission founded in 1836 among the Cayuse Indians by
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, near present-day Walla Walla, Washington
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Washington State - Natural Washington
The Best Apples
on Earth
Web pages with detailed information about apples and the apple industry
in Washington State, from the Washington Apple Education Foundation.
Color
Landform Atlas of the United States - Washington
A variety of relief maps, satellite maps, historical maps, county maps
and/or black and white maps for Washington State from the Applied Physics
Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. External links to more information,
including links to the newspapers of both large and small cities in
the state, are provided.
Perry
Castaneda Library Map Collection: Washington Maps
Washington state, city and historical maps; maps of National Parks,
Monuments and Historic Sites, and links to maps on other web sites.
Washington
County Data
This site, from the Washington Agricultural Statistics Service, provides
facts about agriculture in Washington along with a few general details,
such as population and area statistics. Select a county, a commodity
or a demographic and find details about crops, livestock and the farming
industry. One concern: some statistics are from the mid-1990s.
Welcome
to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
The home page of the Burke Museum, featuring online exhibits, events
and more.
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Washington State - State Symbols
Fish and Wildlife
Symbols of Washington State
Detailed information on the state insect, bird and fish from the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The
Symbols of Washington State
From the Washington State Legislature, this site includes nineteen state
symbols, from bird to tree.
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October 20, 2008
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