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Stock certificate for the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company, 1879
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| Title | Stock certificate for the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company, 1879 |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 1879 |
| Notes | After the Northern Pacific Railway chose Tacoma as the west coast terminus for the transcontinental line in 1873, Seattle boosters responded by organizing a drive to build the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad. This line was intended to run from Seattle to connect with the Northern Pacific at Walla Walla. The trustees, including Arthur Denny, J.M Colman and Dexter Horton, sold stock in the company, issuing certificates like this one. Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad construction began in the spring of 1874 at Georgetown, south of Seattle, reaching Renton in 1877. Chinese laborers, organized by Chin Gee Hee, extended the line as far as Newcastle in 1878, connecting the coal country of south King County to the coal bunkers at Pike Street, on Elliott Bay. In 1880, the Oregon Improvement Company purchased the Seattle and Walla Walla, then renamed the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad. In 1951, it was merged into the Great Northern Railway. |
| Personal Names | Scott, Roswell; Denny, Arthur Armstrong; A.A. Denny |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact Washington State Historical Society, 315 N. Stadium Way, Tacoma, 98403. |
| Credit Line | Washington State Historical Society; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Washington State Historical Society |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
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