The Mercer Girls: Seattle’s Mail Order Brides
What first comes to mind when you think of Seattle?
Rain. The Space Needle. The Cascades and Olympic Mountain Ranges. The eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Grunge Music. Microsoft and Amazon. Coffee. Lots of tree huggers.
Those things are all part of Seattle today, and of its recent history, but if you go back a hundred years or more Seattle was an entirely different kind of place.
Here’s a little look back —-
In the mid-1800’s, Seattle was a timber town, and many of its founding fathers made large fortunes in the timber industry. The term “Skid Road” came out of Seattle …read more
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