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Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Northeastern Washington

A history of ghost towns & pioneers of Northeastern Washington State.

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

From Shingle Mills To Suburbia

A newspaper history of an American town. Contains a searchable, 60,000-entry database of headlines from 1918-1975 in the East Side Journal, the weekly newspaper for Kirkland, Washington.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Washington

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Ghost Towns of Washington

This site covers the history of ghost towns, former mining sites, historic cemeteries and other significant points of forgotten historical interest in Washington State.

Ghost Towns of Washington

Historic Places In Washington - OAHP

Over 1,600 places in Washington are listed in the National Register of Historic Places and the Washington Heritage Register.

HistoryLink

Historical data, stories, and images detailing the people and events, that have formed Seattle, King County, and Washington state.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Seattle Unit

Legacy Washington - WA Secretary of State

Monticello Convention Petition Signers

Lists the signers of the petition, along with known descendants in 1952.

Northwest of the West: the Frontier Experience on the Northwest Coast

Pacific Northwest Historical Documents Database

From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection. The Pacific Northwest Historical Documents database is a collection of original, diaries, letters, reminiscences and political documents drawn from various sources within the Special Collections Division. These documents recount the early settlement of Washington and the establishment of homesteads and towns and describe the hardships faced by many of the early pioneers.

Photo Adventures - Museum of History and Industry

Seattle, Washington. A collection of historical photographs from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

San Juan Island National Historic Park

The Clallam Disaster

On the 8th of January 1904 the ferry Clallam foundered and sunk with the lost of 54 people.

The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation

VAN OLINDA Photograph Collection

A collection of 420 photographs depicting life on Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Seattle and other communities of Washington State's Puget Sound from the 1880s to the 1930s, most taken by Oliver Scott VAN OLINDA (1868-1954) a career newspaperman and resident of Vashon Island.

Washington History Timeline

Washington Rural Heritage

Washington Rural Heritage aggregates local history resources from more than 80 libraries and heritage institutions, and 200 private collections throughout Washington State.