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The Seattle area was previously inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,0. European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 1. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1. Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late 1. Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1. Microsoft becoming established in the region. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the citys population by almost 5. Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1. 91. 8 to 1. Jackson Street, from the current ChinatownInternational District to the Central District. The jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix, as well as the bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters and the alternative rock movement grunge. History. Founding. Archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,0. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people subsequently called the Duwamish tribe occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay. The first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1. Pacific Northwest. In 1. 85. 1, a large party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River they formally claimed it on September 1. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party. Members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 2. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, and landed on Alki point during a rainstorm on November 1. Duwamps 1. 85. 21. After a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present day Pioneer Square,2. Duwamps. Charles Terry and John Low remained at the original landing location and reestablished their old land claim and called it New York, but renamed New York Alki in April 1. Chinook word meaning, roughly, by and by or someday. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, but in time Alki was abandoned and its residents moved across the bay to join the rest of the settlers. David Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth Seattle of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Incorporations. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 2. In 1. 85. 5, nominal land settlements were established. On January 1. 4, 1. Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of trustees managing the city. The Town of Seattle was disincorporated on January 1. King County until late 1. December 2, 1. 86. Mayor council government. The corporate seal of the City of Seattle carries the date 1. Chief Sealth in left profile. Timber town. Seattles first streetcar, at the corner of Occidental and Yesler, 1. All of the buildings visible in this picture were destroyed by fire five years later. Seattle has a history of boom and bust cycles, like many other cities near areas of extensive natural and mineral resources. Seattle has risen several times economically, then gone into precipitous decline, but it has typically used those periods to rebuild solid infrastructure. The first such boom, covering the early years of the city, rode on the lumber industry. During this period the road now known as Yesler Way won the nickname Skid Road, supposedly after the timber skidding down the hill to Henry Yeslers sawmill. The later dereliction of the area may be a possible origin for the term which later entered the wider American lexicon as Skid Row. Like much of the American West, Seattle saw numerous conflicts between labor and management, as well as ethnic tensions that culminated in the anti Chinese riots of 1. This violence originated with unemployed whites who were determined to drive the Chinese from Seattle anti Chinese riots also occurred in Tacoma. In 1. 90. 0, Asians were 4. Authorities declared martial law and federal troops arrived to put down the disorder. Seattle achieved sufficient economic success that when the Great Seattle Fire of 1. Finance company Washington Mutual, for example, was founded in the immediate wake of the fire. However, the Panic of 1. Seattle hard. 3. 4Gold Rush, World War I, and the Great Depression. The second and most dramatic boom resulted from the Klondike Gold Rush, which ended the depression that had begun with the Panic of 1. In a short time, Seattle became a major transportation center. On July 1. 4, 1. 89. S. S. Portland docked with its famed ton of gold, and Seattle became the main transport and supply point for the miners in Alaska and the Yukon. Few of those working men found lasting wealth. However, it was Seattles business of clothing the miners and feeding them salmon that panned out in the long run.