I have been spending a bit of time reading through the timeline on the Historylink website and have been pretty intrigued on how detailed it is. What I have found really interesting and entertaining is reading about the individual cities history and the story about the growth of each one. I scanned through and read about the towns that I grew up around. I grew up in Kenmore (which was an annex of Bothell until I believe 1998) and have always wondered about the history of my home town. Kenmore is not on the list of towns that have been researched since it is a fialry new town, so i looked at Bothell. It was created as a farming town after a bunch of loggers clear cutted the area to make room for in the 1880's. The earliest known inhabitants of the Bothell area which is along the Samammish River was the "Native American tribe that called themselves s-tsah-PAHBSH or 'willow people.'" (Historylink.org) The city of Bothell was established in 1909.
There is plenty of more info but I just wanted to share a bit of it.
I recommend everyone go check out the site and find the info on the town you live in currently. It is fun to learn about. Thanks!
Cole, you make a good point about using HistoryLink for home town history.
ReplyDeleteI like this approach as well. Limiting yourself to one region allows you to studying many different facets of life. But one location also cannot represent the whole. Bellingham (for instance) had less impact than Tacoma from the coming of the railroads.
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