[Early History]-[1774-1860]-[Civil War - 1889]-[1890-1913]
[WWI-1938]-[WWII-1974]-[1975-1990]-[1991-2005]-[2006-2030]
1861 to 1865
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| Clarence B Bagley (1843-1932) |
William Meydenbauer, a Seattle German-immigrant baker, rowed across Lake Washington from Leschi Park to settle alongside the sheltered bay which now bears his name. Meydenbauer owned 120 acres from shore to what is now Bellevue's Main Street. Meydenbauer had no intention of building a permanent residence himself; His cabin was enough to “prove” his homestead and gain him title to the land.
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May 1869
1870
Single election precinct was established on the Eastside. So few persons resided there that one precinct covered all residents from the Black River to the mouth of the Sammamish.
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| Map showing the route of the Snoqualmie Wagon Road, 1870 |
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1870 Federal census shows total population for Washington Territory at 23,355; King County at 2,164, and for Seattle 1,142.
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Upon completion of its surveys of Townships 25 and 26 North, 5 East, the Federal government had opened the eastern shore of Lake Washington north of today’s Village of Beaux Arts for homesteading in 1870.
A land rush of sorts ensued as settlers snapped up homestead claims typically allotted in 80- and 160-acre parcels (Township 24 North, 5 East, to the south, had opened five years earlier due to the discovery of coal, near today’s City of Newcastle).
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Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization, forms a Seattle branch on August 22, 1870.
The charter members of this fraternal organization are John F. Damon, R. S. Moore, Isaiah Waddell, Robert H. Turnbull, William Meydenbauer, Charles J. Allen, Ephraim Calvert, and George W. Hall.
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1871
"Captain" Charles J. Allen takes up a claim of north Mercer Slough, which he farms. He died in 1875, and family claimed patent to the land (below)
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1871
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| Homestead map 25N, Range 5 East, ~1871 (above; courtesy Kroll Map Co.) | |
1871, Marshall Blinn (1827-1885) acquired most of what is now Hunts Point, a finger of land stretching into Lake Washington just east of Medina and north of Clyde Hill. In 1856 Marshall Blinn and partners started a saw mill at Seabeck, WA. They had previously formed the Washington Mill Company in San Francisco.
Through 1872 Blinn began to acquire land patents and other means of obtaining properties in Jefferson, Kitsap, Mason, King, Clallam, and Island County WA.
Blinn never actually lived in Seattle or to see any of his north Seattle land investments become valuable. He died in 1885 at age 58, without seeing a transcontinental railroad connection come to Seattle.
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Benson Northup and wife Florell started for Seattle in 1875 via Union Pacific Railroad; stopping for 6 months in San Francisco, where he worked as a printer. They arrived in Seattle via a sailing ship on September 11, 1875. On the following Monday morning, he went to work as foreman in the Seattle Intelligencer office.
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October of 1878, Benson Northup (with Kirk C. Ward) began the publication of a daily newspaper called The Post. Soon afterwards, he sold his interest to Kirk C. and Mark Ward. The paper later merged with the Intelligencer.
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1879
Local School District #28 was formed February 8, 1879 and took in T24N R4E Sections 11, 12, and 13, and T24N R5E Section 18 and part of 17. Essentially upper 1/3 of Mercer Island only and the eastern boundary was the middle of the East Channel
1880
December 7, 1880 ~5:45 p.m. PST, earthquake was felt throughout Puget Sound region
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December 12, 1880, second earthquake strikes Puget Sound region.
First Bellevue-area public school was built in Killarney on the west side of 108th Avenue S.E., just north of S.E. 25th Street. (Killarney (keh-LAR-nee; Irish: Cill Airne, meaning "church of sloes"; pronounced [ˈcɪl̠ʲ ˈaːɾˠnʲə]) is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland.)
Once settled on his land in 1883, Burrows would first build a log cabin, now known as the Burrows Cabin. He would also build a house at the lake end of present-day SE 15th, where Burrows homesteaded a mile of waterfront.
This 10x12 log cabin school was built by Albert Burrows and George Miller.
Miss Calanthia Burrows (“Tunie”, Albert’s daughter), was the first teacher for the 7 students, paid $40.00 for a 3 month term. 7 students included 2 younger Burrows children and 5 Miller children.
Shack on Mercer Island was used as a school. H.E. Kelsey was the teacher for 9 students. (Kelsey Creek is named for him)
1885
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| Anti-Chinese riots in Seattle, February 7, 1886. |
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July 21st, 1886
Area Post Office opens before the area is named Bellevue. Post office does about $100 in business, a year. Issac Kinsey Bechtel was Bellevue's first area "postmaster" early in 1886.
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Matthew S. Sharpe, brother of Lucian (Lou) Sharpe, became an official postmaster;
His post office was located within the future city limits of Medina. Sharpe also moved to the area with his brothers from Belleview, Indiana - possibly as postal agents.
Because Bechtel's post office needed an official designation, postal inspectors titled the location as Bellevue ("beautiful view" in French) based on the beautiful view from the house - and possibly Isabelle's name. After Isabelle's retirement, William Ivey became area postmaster and used his own home as the post office for 23 years.
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1887
May 13, 1887, a new 14x20 foot one-room cabin on Main Street was built on property donated by John R. Kinnear and his wife Rebecca. The 200 foot wide x 200 foot deep property was given to the school district with the provision that “when the property should cease to be used in good faith for public school purposes, it at once reverts to grantors, their heirs, executors or assigns.”
Miss Florence Stowell was the teacher for eight students -- five from the Bechtel Family.
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Matt Murdock and William Shiach came from Manitoba to settle in the Highland area of Bellevue. Murdock built a log cabin on his land, but decided to leave the area. At that time he sold the cabin and property to William Shiach. In 1887 the cabin became the first school in the area. It was known as the Claim Cabin School. (NOTE: which william? Ontario https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5421224/william-shiach or Manitoba https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KC38-CGW/william-sidney-shiach-1871-1944)
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Daniel Fraser built a log cabin in the Northup area around this time.
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| Fraser Patent |
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| Daniel and Sarah Jane Whitney (horse: Charley) on their farm, Bellevue, 1887 |
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| George H Miller 1887 Patent |
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| (King County, Washington, c.1888) | |
1889
November 11, 1889 Washington Territory admitted to the Union as 42nd State of Washington! |
| U.S. Secretary of State James Blaine sent a telegram (above) Re: WA Statehood |
Carrie B. Lake took over for Miss Stowell as teacher because Stowell was still only 16 years old -- a new territorial law would not allow anyone under 18 to teach.
into part of Yarrow Point and south to what is now Clyde Hill.
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