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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
. 11, 1853 Congress transfers all that portion of the Cumberland road which lies between Springfield, O., and the western boundary of that State to Ohio, by act approved......Jan. 20, 1853 Electoral vote counted......Feb. 9, 1853 Coinage of $3 gold pieces authorized, and the weight of the half-dollar fixed at 192 gr., and the quarter-dollar, the dime, and half-dime at proportionate amounts, by act approved......Feb. 21, 1853 Territory of Washington formed by act approved......March 2, 1853 Congress authorizes a survey for a railway from the Mississippi to the Pacific......March 3, 1853 Thirty-second Congress adjourns......March 3, 1853 seventeenth administration—Democratic, March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1857. Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire, President. William R. King, Alabama, Vice-President. Oath of office is administered to the Vice-President-elect by United States Consul Sharkey, at Cumbre, near Matanzas, on the island of Cuba......March 24, 1853 [A spec
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, (search)
....Aug. 29, 1851 Seattle founded; named from a noted Indian chief......1852 Coal discovered near Bellingham Bay by William Pattle......1852 First number of the Columbian, a weekly newspaper, issued at Olympia......Sept. 11, 1852 Congress establishes a territorial government for Washington (Oregon north of the Columbia), and confirms titles of lands held by missionary stations before the establishment of Oregon, not exceeding 640 acres each, to their religious societies......March 2, 1853 T. J. Dryer and party ascend Mount St. Helen, which they discover to be an expiring volcano......1853 Wagon-road opened over the Cascade Mountains, and thirty-five wagons, with 100 or 200 emigrants, reach Puget Sound......1853 Henry L. Yesler builds Puget Sound's first steam saw-mill at Seattle......1853 I. I. Stevens, appointed governor of the Territory, arrives at Olympia, Nov. 26, and organizes the government......Nov. 28, 1853 First federal court held in Washington at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Washington, (search)
ate of Washington, Created from Washington Territory, which was originally a part of Oregon, and was the most northwestern portion of the republic until Alaska was purchased. It is bounded on the north by Canada. The first American settlement in the limits of the State was at Tumwater, in 1845, by a few families who had crossed the plains. Before that the only white dwellers were employes of the Hudson Bay Company. Washington Territory was set apart from Oregon by act of Congress, March 2, 1853. When Oregon became a State, Feb. 14, 1859, Congress added to Washington Territory the region between the eastern boundary of that State and the Rocky Mountains, embracing the present State of Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming. The San Juan Islands, formerly claimed by Great Britain, were decided, in 1872, by the arbitration of the Emperor of Germany, State seal of Washington. to belong to the United States. Washington was admitted as a State in 1889. Olympia is the capital.