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Courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
Journalists are handy: The Daily Chronicle staff worked out of a tent after the Great Fire in Spokane in 1889.
In 1889, the territory of Washington officially declared statehood, but it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows the year the 42nd state entered the union.
The territory’s four major cities each went up in flames in the summer of 1889: Seattle and Vancouver in June, Ellensburg in July, and Spokane — then called Spokane Falls — in August.
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