In Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919, IWW member and army veteran Wesley Everest was turned over to a mob by jail guards and lynched. The IWW continued to be prosecuted under various state and federal laws and the 1920 Palmer Raids singled out the foreign-born members of the organ...
Centralia IL Evanston IL 19. The Missouri Compromise, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1820, ended the first crisis concerning the extension of slavery. Two states were admitted to the Union. One was a free state and one a slave state. What were the two states? Hint Rhode Island and ...
Formerly a "gentleman's resort," the Olympic Club adds a hotel and theater to the pub in Centralia, making it our first Washington hotel. 2004 Originally a 1936 parochial school, Old St. Francis opens as a hotel with bars, pub, theater and soaking pool in the heart of Bend, Oregon. ...
Centralia, MO The 1921 EMF Electrical Year Book said the company manufactured guy anchors, lightning arrester, wall brackets, and electric linotype pot heaters. President, A. Bishop Chance; secretary, I. L. Traughber; treasurer, J. A. Chance. Chance Co. (A. B.) PP; PP Co. 1955-1963 ...
Questions of memory 鈥 and historical amnesia 鈥 were central to a study in Centralia, Washington, a community haunted by a bloody labor confrontation that had been erased from official memory. "History, He Wrote: Murder, Politics, and the Challenges of Public History in a Community with a...
While driving across Missouri I detoured us two hours out of the way to drive through the small speck of a town called Centralia. Why did I subject my family to another two hours on the road when they had already been in the car for twice that long? Because I had written a paper ...
The geographic center of the United States is located six and one half miles northwest of Centralia, Illinois. May 1, 1960 - In the Soviet Union, a United States U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot done by Soviet forces, leading to the capture of U.S. pilot Gary Powers and the eventual ...
Cedar Creek Grist Mill, Washington’s Oldest Building That Is Still Doing Its Job Picture perfect, like a scene on the front of a jigsaw puzzle box. A trip to the Cedar Creek Grist Mill in Woodland, Washington lets people walk into that picture. I had no idea what the mill looked like...
McCaw, the son of an adventurous entrepreneur, traced the beginning of his own entrepreneurial career to 1966. When McCaw was 16 years old, his father sold him and his three brothers a small cable television system in Centralia, Washington. The cable system, located two hours south of Seattle...
2001:McMenamins opens Centralia's Olympic Club Hotel in Centralia, Oregon. 2003:McMenamins reopens the Rock Creek Tavern in Hillsboro, Oregon. Company History: McMenamins Pubs and Breweries owns and operates more than 50 establishments in Oregon and the state of Washington and is the sixth la...