1800-1830	1810 Spokane House - Fur Trading Site
1831-1860	1830 Spokan Garry and Spokane Tribe 1852 Antoine Plante's Ferry 1858 Colonel George Wright - Indian Wars and Hangman Creek 1859 Mullan Road - From Walla Walla to Fort Benton
1861-1890	1873 Glover, The Father of Spokane 1874 Cowley, Missionary Teacher 1876 First Fourth of July Celebration 1880 Fort Spokane - Buffer between Settlers and Indians 1881 Spokane vs Cheney for County Seat 1881 Railroad Expansion and D.C. Corbin 1884 May Arkwright Hutton 1886 First Electric Co. and Falls 1886 Sacred Heart Hospital 1887 Father Cataldo and Founding Gonzaga College 1887 Dr. Latham- First Woman Doctor 1888 Street Cars 1888 Monroe Street Bridge 1889 Washington Water Power Co. Start 1889 The Great Fire of 1889 1889 First Fire Station No. 1 1890 The Age of Elegance Kirtland Cutter Patrick Clark Campbell House Davenport Hotel 1890 The Shrine Social Club
1891-1920	1891 Review Tower 1892 Great Northern Railroad and Clock Tower 1893 Natatorium Park and Carousel 1895 County Courthouse 1897 Wild West in Spokane 1903 Public Library - Carnegie Building 1905 Manito Park 1907 Spokane Aquifer and First Well 1907 Steam Plant 1908 Liberty Park 1909 Flynn and Free Speech Movement - IWW 1910 Sonora Smart Dodd and Father's Day 1912 Lewis & Clark H.S. 1912 Miss Spokane
1921-1950	1925 The Cathedral of St. John
1951-1980
1981-2000	1997 Spokane Now 2003 Spokane History Walk 2004-7 Spokane History Research Process

1895 - Spokane County Courthouse	The architect for the Spokane County Courthouse, Willis A. Richey, was born in Ohio in 1861. It is amazing that Willis A. Richey didn't even go to school. He was trained by a correspondence course. The only reason he wanted to design and build the county courthouse, was because there was a prize for the most original design.
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{Spokane Courthouse} He used a French castle as the idea for the building. Finally they were done building it in 1895. It is now over 104 years old and it is worth over $4 million dollars. Willis Richey died in his sleep at age 75. Report created 2000. copyright (c) 2000, 2007 Discovery School. All rights reserved. Revised: August 21, 2007

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