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2 days ago · Seattle, Washington. The city was settled on November 13, 1851, at what is now West Seattle. It was relocated the following year to a site across Elliott Bay near a Duwamish Indian village. It owes its name to the Native American leader Seattle, chief of the Duwamish, Suquamish, and other tribes of the Puget Sound area.
2 days ago · Seattle - Port City, Pacific Northwest, Technology Hub: Seattle lies on the southeastern shore of Puget Sound, a deep 100-mile- (160-km-) long inlet of the northern Pacific Ocean. The central portion of the city faces Elliott Bay, a deep-floored extension.
1 day ago · The First Sculptor of Seattle. James Wehn's work can still be seen all over the city. By Brad Holden July 5, 2024. Brad Holden. Illustration by Arthur Mount. This article originally appeared in the May/June 2024 issue of Seattle magazine. My first encounter with the work of James Wehn occurred in the 1980s during a family trip to the Seattle ...
2 days ago · Seattle - Arts, Music, Cuisine: Seattle enjoys a lively blend of cultural activities that draws on the city’s ethnic diversity, its tradition of municipal support for the arts, and its status as a regional and national educational and economic center.
16 hours ago · This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
3 days ago · Authenticity and origin. Not all Spanish place name etymologies in the United States originate from the Spanish colonial period or from the Spanish language. Spanish-sounding place names are classified into four categories:
1 day ago · The state was formed from the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by the British Empire in the Oregon Treaty of 1846. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital, and the most populous city is Seattle .
