Tacoma's Stadium District

by Kelsey Longrie, Amberose Longrie, Joy Keniston-Longrie, et al.

Book Overview

A telegram stating, "We have located terminus on Commencement Bay," was sent on July 14, 1873, by R. D. Rice and J. C. Ainsworth, Northern Pacific Railroad commissioners, to Gen. Morton Mathew McCarver in Tacoma and Arthur Denny in Seattle's Pioneer Square. This message set the iron wheels in motion for Tacoma's destiny and transformation from old-growth forests to the Stadium District of today. It is here that railroad tycoons, timber barons, industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738580694
• ISBN13: 9780738580692
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"