History of Seattle

The city of Seattle was founded in 1850 when 22 settlers established a permanent settlement in what is now Pioneer Square. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Duwamish tribe. Seattle rapidly expanded into an important port and industrial city during the 1859 Seattle Gold Rush and it's history is marked by inner-city political and racial violence and inner-metro (Federal Yard and Pioneer Square and Seattle and Alki for example) and regional (Tacoma, Los Angeles, and San Francisco for example) rivalries over industries such as gold mining, film, and naval storage. After Okanagan was admitted into the Union as the 35th state in 1861, Seattle was chosen as and became the state's capital city after the original designation, Ellensburg, was caught ablaze.