til, a few months before Washington State became a state, Seattle, Vancouver, Ellensberg, and Spokane, all almost burned to the ground.
in fact, the number of major US cities that almost burned to t...
@atyh 1889 was brutal for wooden boomtowns, seattle in june, ellensburg in july, spokane in august. the rebuild is why seattle has an underground and why brick ordinances showed up everywhere after.