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Tacoma's Stadium District

By Joy Keniston-Longrie, Kelsey Longrie, Amberose Longrie, Bill Baarsma (Foreword by)
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By Joy Keniston-Longrie, Kelsey Longrie, Amberose Longrie, Bill Baarsma (Foreword by)
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A telegram stating, We have located terminus on Commencement Bay, was sent on July 14, 1873, by R. D. Rice and J. C. Ainsworth, Northern Pacific Railroad commissioners, to Gen. Morton Mathew McCarver in Tacoma and Arthur Denny in Seattle's Pioneer Square. This message set the iron wheels in motion for Tacoma's destiny and transformation from old-growth forests to the Stadium District of today. It is here that railroad tycoons, timber barons, industrial leaders, and everyday people built the...

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